A viewer arrives at Regal Times Square and misses the first ten minutes of The Devil Wears Prada 2, then settles into a ButtKicker seat with two friends. Andy Sachs returns in a familiar bar setting where a disliked boyfriend character worked in the earlier film. The viewer notes the absence of a former celebrity crush and comments on unrealistic aging and physical portrayal. The film is described as PG-13 and commercially successful, with $234 million in opening weekend box office. Realism is treated as unnecessary because the story centers on the media industry and a reboot conflict. The original film is characterized as balancing glamour and power, with Miranda Priestly portrayed as comically cruel yet brilliant, and emotionally fallible when privacy is invaded. The sequel is framed as meeting characters with greater love and understanding, supported by a performance that has been admired for decades.
"If the woman in monogrammed Chanel acid-wash jeans standing on the Regal Times Square escalator had stayed to the right to let me walk past, I might not have missed the first ten minutes of The Devil Wears Prada 2 . But fate was such that I was thrust into the sequel of the season without set-up. Settling into the theater's signature ButtKicker seat, flanked by two of my best girlfriends, I re-met Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) in the familiar bar where Adrian Grenier's widely loathed "disgruntled boyfriend" character worked in the original movie."
"However, one shouldn't typically expect realism from a PG-13 film that amassed $234 million from the global box office during its opening weekend. One does not realism in a film about the state of the media industry, the conflict the reboot chose to tackle. The Devil Wears Prada (2006) told the story of one woman reckoning with ambition against a fantastic landscape of glamour and power."
"It was complicated: editor Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) comes off comically cruel, yet brilliant when she explains how Andy's cerulean sweater slots into the pantheon of fashion history, and fallible when Andy peeks into the privacy of her home. Streep's performance was so idiosyncratic and emotionally nuanced that we've spent the past decades not villainizing her, but worshipping her. Thus little introduction is needed, and the twentieth-anniversary revival meets the characters on a plane of relative love and understanding."
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