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Devil Wears Prada, The
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Generally favorable reviews
Based on 40 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Drama
Written by:
Aline Brosh McKenna
Lauren Weisberger (novel)
Directed by: David Frankel
Release Date:
Theatrical: June 30, 2006
DVD: December 12, 2006
Running Time: 106 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for some sensuality
Starring Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Adrian Grenier, Tracie Thoms, Rich Sommer, and Simon Baker
The best-selling novel about a young woman who stumbles into the hectic worlds of high fashion and publishing comes to the big screen.
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
New York Post Kyle Smith
If you can tell the difference between a mule and a pump, attendance at The Devil Wears Prada is mandatory. You might have to reach back to "Funny Face" to find a fashion movie so on-trend.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
Effortless fun: It plays like a giddy horror movie with its laughs wrapped in couture gowns.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker David Denby
Bright and crisp and funny, the movie turns dish into art--or, if not quite into art, then at least into the kind of dazzling commercial entertainment that Hollywood, in the days of George Cukor or Stanley Donen, used to turn out.
Read Full Review >Empire Helen O'Hara
This smart and funny creation is not just wish-fulfilment for the "Sex And The City" generation -- it's a Wall Street for the 21st century.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Prada just feels authentic, from its glossy look to the specific and sometimes curious behavior of the secondary and tertiary characters. To watch it is like being entertained while getting an anthropological crash course.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
The devil may wear Prada, but Meryl wears the crown.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
While the picture isn't brilliant, it is, at its most entertaining, a kicky, surprisingly astute throwback to bygone Hollywood social comedies.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Setting her (Streep) face into a mask of composure that suggests Darth Vader by way of a Kabuki actor, the most expressive of American actresses shows how power is expressed in the lack of facial and vocal expression.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Briskly directed by "Sex and the City" veteran David Frankel, the movie is far better than the source.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Though there is enough haute couture on display for a season of "Sex and the City" envy, it has definite off-the-rack appeal to regular moviegoers. In fact, it may be the one film this year where you'll see Manolo Blahniks and Doc Martens on women sitting in the same row.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
The story is glossy junk begat of just-plain junk anyway: Lauren Weisberger, who wrote the hiss-and-tell roman à clef best-seller on which the picture is based, was herself an assistant to Wintour.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
It's an occasion for Streep to play against a stereotype, and win. It's a rout, in fact.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
The Devil Wears Prada is two films in one: a caustic, energetic satire of the fashion world and a cautionary melodrama. The first works; the second doesn't.
Read Full Review >Village Voice J. Hoberman
A tour de force for Streep, who gives her character an unexpected measure of depth.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano
The Devil Wears Prada spins Weisberger's rant into a sharp, surprisingly funny excursion into the catty realm of women's magazines. The movie skips the condescension usually aimed at this world in favor of rapt observation.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dana Stevens
Miranda is played by Meryl Streep, an actress who carries nuance in her every pore, and who endows even her lighthearted comic roles with a rich implication of inner life. With her silver hair and pale skin, her whispery diction as perfect as her posture, Ms. Streep's Miranda inspires both terror and a measure of awe.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
Takes place in the world of haute couture. And that pretty much sums up the movie. Otherwise, it would be just another Queen of Mean, boss from hell movie. But, oh, what delicious fun Meryl Streep and her conspirators have with that world.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
Streep single-handedly elevates this sitcomy but tolerably entertaining adaptation of Lauren Weisberger's bestselling 2003 roman a clef about a personal assistant's year of chic hell under the thumb of the dragon lady of the fashion world.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar
Actually one of the better comedies I've seen this year speaks volumes for the quality of the performances and the caliber of the script.
Read Full Review >Slate Dana Stevens
A movie that revels in pleasure: the pleasure of fashion, of luxury, of power and ambition. It's also a tremendous pleasure to watch.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
The bad news in this kinder, gentler, more subtle performance is that, by playing the woman (Streep) as less of a devil, the dynamic that propels the story loses much of its drive and energy, and what's left is a kind of high-class "Gidget" movie.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
May be accurate around the edges, but at its heart it's a fairy tale.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
The comic appeal of The Devil Wears Prada is the cinematic equivalent of a size 2 - wafer-thin and ultimately lacking in meat and substance.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
A lightweight, formulaic piece of fluff, but you wouldn't know that by Meryl Streep's performance.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Ella Taylor
Frankel has cut, pasted and rejiggered the novel, mostly for the better. As adapted by Aline Brosh McKenna, The Devil Wears Prada is crisper, less self-righteous and mercifully shorter than its intermittently funny but interminable source.
Read Full Review >Newsweek David Ansen
When the satire stays focused on Streep or her snooty Brit assistant (Emily Blunt), "Prada" is malicious fun. But the central story about how smart, idealistic Anne Hathaway, as Miranda's drably dressed new assistant, loses her soul in pursuit of success and great shoes is dramatically anorexic.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
They put the material on lifts - and end up tripping into TV dramedy land.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
Probably supposed to be half fashion fantasy, half satire of the fashion world. What a drag that it's not enough of either.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Mistrustful of its audience, it's full of actors -- apart from Streep -- playing broad attitudes rather than characters. Crafted like a high end TV show, it's a sort of video Vogue -- lite, brite and trite.
Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
It's a self-blunting satire, a toothless attack on fashionistas that twists around tortuously and ends up biting (well, gumming) its own tail.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
Sometimes actors get parts so rich that they almost can't help but make meals of them. Playing a frosty, high-powered editor in The Devil Wears Prada, Meryl Streep turns the role into a four-course dinner and shows up with her own dessert...But it's hard to care about what's going on whenever she's offscreen.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Rob Nelson
More "Pretty Woman" than "Working Girl," The Devil Wears Prada really lives to give its angel a high-class makeover.
Read Full Review >Premiere Aaron Hillis
So stupendously funny at times that she (Streep) nearly salvages the whole thing.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Meryl Streep is indeed poised and imperious as Miranda, and Anne Hathaway is a great beauty who makes a convincing career girl. I liked Stanley Tucci, too, as Nigel... But I thought the movie should have reversed the roles played by Grenier and Baker. Grenier comes across not like the old boyfriend but like the slick New York writer, and Baker seems the embodiment of Midwestern sincerity.
Read Full Review >The New Republic Stanley Kauffmann
The best performance comes from Stanley Tucci as the Runway art director. Tucci presents a homosexual man without a trace of cartoon--shrewd, skilled, and weathered without being worn. It is a well-judged and accomplished piece of work.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
If you shut down your brain and simply take in the wardrobe and performances by Streep and Blunt you'll have a swell time, like aimlessly flipping the pages of a fashion magazine.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.4 (out of 10) based on 102 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Mario J. gave it a10:
Meryly Streep, perfection.
Nelet K. gave it a4:
It was predictable, with no real obstacles for the caracters. A bit boring, but still enjoyable.
Mei H. gave it an8:
A witty movie and great performances!
Dan B. gave it a9:
Yes, this *is* your typical Hollywood film. It's got a typical structure and typical conflicts and typical turning points and a typical ending. It also happens to very well made and acted--and that's *not* typical.
Reid F. gave it an8:
It’s hard to say this is a comeback year for Meryl Streep, because she has never really gone away. But it is a year when she played two women who are polar opposites, and played each flawlessly. I loved her role in this film, which simultaneously idolized and satirized the fashion world. This is a great performance in a movie that was well-directed by David Frankel, who also directed episodes of “Sex and the City” and “Entourage” (Entourage star Adrian Grenier also has a role in this film).
[Anonymous] gave it a7:
Not bad. Corny and hokey at times, but I enjoyed watching it, and I generally don't like these movies (i.e. movies my wife wants to see after watching the trailer). But I can't say I hated it. Hathaway has the potential to be one of those actresses who is not smoking hot, but is attractive based on personality.
Terry R. gave it a7:
A "must see" for at least 3 stunning performances, if not that of the lead. Actually better than the book.
