The Devil Wears Prada 2 Review: Stylish, Nostalgic, and Shockingly Empty
- Robbie
- 27 minutes ago
- 2 min read
I recently watched The Devil Wears Prada 2, and honestly, I wasn't impressed at all.
The movie starts off by setting up an interesting idea about social media taking over magazines and changing the fashion industry, but it never fully commits to that storyline. Instead, the film introduces multiple plotlines that either go nowhere or are forgotten about completely by the end.
Emily Charlton also doesn’t feel like a natural antagonist for the story, while most of the returning characters don’t really develop at all. They mostly repeat the same traits and character beats from the original film rather than evolving in meaningful ways.
Another major issue is how messy the pacing feels. The film constantly changes locations in almost every scene, which becomes incredibly jarring and makes the story hard to follow properly. It feels like the writers had too many ideas they wanted to include and ended up losing focus on what the movie was actually supposed to be about.
Technically, the film does look beautiful, and I won’t criticise it too heavily on that side since it was clearly designed as a cinematic release. However, the story itself feels so weak and unfocused that at times it honestly comes across more like a straight-to-streaming sequel than a major theatrical event.
Performance-wise, Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci all slide naturally back into their iconic roles, but none of them truly stand out this time around. Justin Theroux’s performance unfortunately didn’t work for me at all and I found him horribly miscast, almost as if he was only added to give the sequel another recognisable name.
What made the original Devil Wears Prada work so well was how it balanced prestige drama with chick-flick charm while still telling a genuinely strong story. This sequel had the potential to say something meaningful about how social media has overtaken magazines as the dominant source of influence and information, but the film never fully explores that idea and completely fails to commit to its themes.
Overall, while it’s visually stylish and nostalgic to see these actors return, the weak storytelling and unfocused direction make The Devil Wears Prada 2 one of the biggest disappointments of the year for me.
Rating: 6/10
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