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Stultifyingly stylish. Twenty years have passed and the characters are unchanged, robotic and struggling with digital dimensions demanded by director David Frankel. Anne Hathaway (better served in “Mother Mary” where she is brilliant as a “Talor Swift” lionized, troubled performer) still coiffed in Rapunzel-flowing tresses, smiling vapidly, hiding intelligence behind contemporary fashion, journalist trends. Striving for substantiality as “Andrea Sachs” in her perpetual verbal dual with “Miranda Priestly” (Meryl Streep imitates to perfection her past epistemology). Emily Blunt as “Emily Charliton” is annoying as a rival for the acquisition of Miranda’s “Runway” magazine”; stale and scripted dialogue makes her transition sensationally benign in “Devil 2”. Stanley Tucci as “Nigel”, Priestly’s “right hand man” continues to add verifiable legitimacy in dealing with the uncompromising switches in the fashion/media driven realm.
Wickedly wild, wonderful wardrobe adds titillation to a predictable scenario where “Lady Gaga”, breaks monotony in a stellar, high-styled, banger number. Visiting this film with one of the keen, cool fashion icons of a major city, dressed meticulously, eyes drooping, she fell asleep. The ubiquitous, bludgeoning themes: ambition, commodification of fashion, social media, generational trends, pivotally pointed, but yawningly obvious, left one yearning for the outcome of the Battle Between the Titians: Sam Altman, Elon Musk and OpenAI.
Slickly, stylish, soon scoured and easily scrapped…………….
TWO & ½ STARS!!
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