Fashion victim ends up a clotheshorse! (The Devil Wears Prada (DVD))

Member Name: chrissteel1985

Product:	The Devil Wears Prada (DVD)
Date:	12/07/09 (8 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Nice feel to the story, great peformances

Disadvantages: Avoid like the plague if fashion brings you out in a cold sweat

As a 24 year old man I normally wouldn't want to watch a film about Prada. Or anything that screams shoes, fashion and bags. Cue a wet and windy weekend in 2006 and for want of anything better to do my partner dragged (yes dragged) me to see this. I expected to sit through the 90+ mins with a pet lip, angry that I had to sit through this when I could have been at home building a fort. Or lying down. The reaction I gave was somewhat different. I enjoyed it.

The film stars Anne Hathaway (who I suspect I have a crush on and is my excuse to my friends for going to see it) who is brilliant as dowdy Andy who has graduated and has moved to New York to cut her teeth in the brutal world of journalism. She gets a job interview at Runway, the country's premier fashion bible, as Personal Assistant to Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep). The job is one thousands of young girls want, yet Andy just wants if for a year before she can move on to something more meaty, like the New York Times.

Cue the two worlds of Andy's dowdiness and clumsiness with that of the high coutered, fashion minxes she suddenly finds herself working with. Miranda is an unforgiving boss and makes ridiculous demands on Andy including tracking down a first edition print of the new Harry Potter book before it even hits the shelves. Somehow, Andy muddles through.

The supporting cast put in great performances especially Emily Blunt as Mirandas Senior Personal Assistant, a snappy English rose who lives and breathes fashion and Stanly Tucci as the Fashion Editor who helps turn Andy from a duck to a swan.

There is a cracking soundtrack with my personal favourite being "Suddenly I See" by K T Tunstall. The locations are great and the story plods along at a reasonable pace. It's not the sort of movie I'd like but the DVD sits in our collection even though I'm more Primark than Prada

Summary: Good film, worth getting the DVD for a snuggly weekend