I Watched the Devil Wears Prada 2 So You Don't Have To

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]There's a lot in the first part of this movie being like, "Remember the movie that you liked? You're going to like this one? You're going to like this one cuz remember all the things you liked from the other one? Well, we're we're reminding you of them here.

[00:00:25]Hi. Hello. How are you? Welcome back to my channel. If you're new here, my name is Kari and today we are talking about The Devil Wears Prada 2. I was expecting it to be quite bad. We are living obviously in this era of like Hollywood reboots and sequels and stuff. And where The Devil Wears Prada one leaves off, it's very much like end of story. It's not like ooh what's going to happen?

[00:00:54]It's like, well, we know and it's sto the story is over. But I was pleasantly surprised. There's issues. There's problems as always, but I've never written a Hollywood movie, so what the hell do I know? I'm just going to walk you through it, letting you know my thoughts on it and just talking about moments from the plot. I feel like that's really all I have to say about it. So, The Devil Wears Prada One follows Andy Saxs, who's played by Anne Hathaway. She is a new journalism school grad and she is a serious serious woman.

[00:01:24]She wants to write real hard-hitting news, but she gets a job as an assistant to Miranda Priestley, played by Meyer Street, who is the editor-inchief of Runway magazine, which is basically Vogue. It's a huge fashion magazine. And it's a fish out of water tail because Andy is thrown kind of head first into this incredibly high stakes environment.

[00:01:44]a million girls would kill for this job.

[00:01:46]And Miranda is impossibly demanding as a boss, but if she can work there for a year, she can work anywhere in journalism. But she doesn't understand anything about fashion. And that's basically what happens. The movie follows Andy as she slowly kind of falls more and more into the world and starts caring about the job more and then eventually realizing that she doesn't like the ways in which she's changed, leaving and going to pursue regular journalism. The other characters that are of note I would say is Emily who is played by Emily Blunt and she is the first assistant. Andy is the second assistant and she is a very brash, rude British woman who basically is like you are unsuitable for the job and very mean to Andy but very funny. And then there is Nigel Kipling played by Stanley Tucci. He is basically kind of Andy's wise friend. He works there. He's in charge of the vision, the creative vision of the magazine, right? Whenever Andy's like, "Work is hard." He's like, "You need to buckle up." He's a hard believer of runway, but a very fair fair person. He's an amazing character. I really do love the first movie. I think it is actually very well written, very funny, very interesting. There's a really great monologue where Andy is complaining, being like, "I'm trying so hard, but Miranda doesn't seem to care."

[00:03:05]And he goes, "You're not trying."

[00:03:08]basically and goes through this beautiful monologue about the history of fashion, the importance of Runway magazine to different people. And just because Andy doesn't respect it or care about it doesn't mean that it's not important to people. I think it's a very well-ritten movie. It's one of my favorites. For a long time, it was maybe one of my favorite movies. I do really like it still. Um, it is job propaganda in the greatest way possible. Whenever I was in the trenches at my last real job, I would like I would either watch The Devil Wears Prada or listen to The Devil Wears Prada playlist, like a Spotify playlist of The Devil Wears Prada to just be like I'm romanticizing my life.

[00:03:44]I'm romant I love I love I'm I'm living in New York and I'm working at Runway Magazine. Everything's fine.

[00:03:48]Everything's fine. And it is interesting seeing that. And I think even in the second movie, it's just like the movie is just going to be capitalist. That's just what it is. It's like I love my job. Working is good. I love my job.

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[00:06:34]Thank you so much to Proton Mail for sponsoring this video. Let's talk about the Devil Wear Prada 2. So, I saw The Devil Wears Prada 2 at my local cinema cuz I support I mean, it's not it's a chain, but it's local to me. And it was a day before it came out for the public cuz they do that sometimes, I think, to like inflate opening weekend numbers or something. But, I don't know. I think what they were also doing was I think it was a corporate event. So like I was there with a bunch of people who all went to work together who at were at a job of some kind and this was like a woo thanks for your hard work guys let's go see the devil's product too and Carly's going to be there so the vibes at the theater were insane there was like a red carpet rolled out approaching the theater and I was just like this can't be this can't be for me they don't know I'm coming that's just a sprinkle so you understand the kind of energy I'm walking into I will address the elephant in the room the color of the movie is bad. There's been a lot of posts going around about this for like the past, I would honestly say 5 years, if not more, where just modern movies, the coloring is ass. It looks terrible.

[00:07:37]They're always gray, washed out. There's no vividness to them in any way. They just don't feel good. I think some of that might be intentional, a value of like realism or all these things. But I was also reading online somebody talking about how it's because like they've stopped filming movies on film cameras and did it in digital. So you don't have to intentionally light every single shot. You can like fix it in post in order to do a lot of those edits. You just have to shoot it in like the blandest way possible. I don't know if that's true cuz I barely have enough of an understanding on tech to run a YouTube channel. Like I'm not doing tech for a movie. I don't understand that.

[00:08:14]All that to say is the color is quite bland and it does make things look less expensive. The Devil's Prada universe kind of traverses in luxury, right? I would say that for me the selling points of the original movie are the luxury of it and the relatability of it of Andy is a very relatable character and I think a very well-ritten main character in that she is deeply flawed in many ways. She's quite arrogant, definitely stubborn, unaware, but like also quite humble in some ways and will definitely like apologize if she's in the wrong. I just think she's a very well-ritten character and I think that those are the two kind of draws. It's just the Anne Hathaway charisma and the relatability of the story of being like, "Oh my god, what if I was working at Runway Magazine crazy?"

[00:08:57]And then like the clothes, the wealth, the opulence, all those things. And the color, like the color doesn't really make it look opulent or wealthy in the same way. the the set for the runway magazine offices looks basically identical to what they looked they used in the original movie, but it's just so stark and so lit that it's uh it doesn't look I would say as as nice. The other thing that I saw brought up when the trailer dropped and I think like teasers and stuff like that was the clothes.

[00:09:28]There was this kind of discussion of being like the clothes look like Zara.

[00:09:31]They look very cheap, fast fashion and um the original Devil Wars product like the aesthetic and the the outfits and the costumeuming looks so amazing because that was the time also the designer was Patricia Field who did Sex in the City and stuff like that and it's just like an iconic one of the best to ever do it. So the outfits in that are very very iconic. Even Andy's bad outfits are just so it's very very good costumeuming work. What I will say watching the Devil Wars Prada 2 it's Patricia Field is not doing didn't do it this time but her proteéé like a person who had worked under her for many many years and I believe also worked on the Devil Wars Prada 1 as like an assistant or an associate or something has taken over and I actually think the costumeuming is good. I watched the first movie right before I saw the second movie to kind of compare in a more fair way. I don't think that the costumeuming especially on characters like Nigel and Miranda who have to look expensive. Same with um Emily. Those are characters that are in the fashion world are wealthy. I think that those characters when you see the movie dress the way that they would dress now. I think the quality of clothes in general has gone down, but I don't think that it's noticeable. I don't think that you're watching the movie going like, "Oh my god, they look so cheap. Why is Miranda Priestley and Zara?" They have Nigel in lots and lots of custom suiting, which always just looks very, very good. Emily in the movie, spoiler alert, is working for Dior and she's just in a lot of kind of crazy Dior fits, but like it looks good. And they have Miranda in basically a more modern version of the costumeuming that she would wear in the first movie of it's a lot of um suits and things like that.

[00:11:05]Very chic, very clean lines. At one point when they're in the Hamptons, she's wearing like a blue button-down and like white jeans. It just feels very true to me. Again, I don't traverse in that world, but I didn't find the costumeuming took me out of it at any moment. Anne Hathaway's character. I think it's not fair to levy that at her because the whole thing about Andy is like she might have a minor interest in style based on her time at Runway magazine, but she doesn't actually really care. So, she's wearing a lot of strange outfits, but I think they're in line with what Andy would wear. There's a little running current of like white woman who went to India and loved it.

[00:11:43]You know what I mean? Like that's her.

[00:11:44]Like there's a bit of that. There's a bit of like white woman traveling and like that's her personality vibe to the close which I actually think really works for Andy because her whole journalism career since leaving Runway has been like doing journalism all across the world and doing stuff. So I actually think again the costumeuming there is very good. She also has writer friends. One of her friends that's a a journalist that works with her. He dress it's like the most effective dressing I've ever seen. I don't know if I'll be able to find a still from it cuz the movie came out like yesterday. but he's just in like a wrinkled blue button-down and a filthy like maybe New York Knicks.

[00:12:20]It wouldn't be a Nick Knicks. It maybe be the Yankees hat. And I was like, this is every journalist I feel like guy journalist I've ever seen. So, I think the costumeuming is actually quite good.

[00:12:28]All right, so let's get into it. The movie starts with kind of a reference to how The Devil Wears Prada proper starts, and we're going to get a lot of that.

[00:12:37]This movie by nature is very very self-referential where it's got these obvious Easter eggs presented as if like there's little nods to the first movie, but it's just like they're not nods.

[00:12:49]It's like screaming into a megaphone. I don't necessarily think that's bad. Like who is seeing The Devil Wears Prada 2 without seeing The Devil Wears Prada 1?

[00:12:57]No one. But it is, let's say, nostalgia bait. This movie is banking a lot on being like, "Remember the first movie you guys loved?" And like, you know, fair game because I was in the THEATER BEING LIKE, I DID LOVE THAT FIRST MOVIE.

[00:13:12]SO, what do I know? But the first uh movie starts basically with a bunch of girls getting ready for work. And Andy's kind of like not like other girls cuz all of the glamorous girls are like putting on glamorous uh lingerie under their glamorous work clothes and having five almonds for breakfast and taking a cab to work where Andy's like just putting on her sports bra and her ugly clothes and walking out the door to get an onion bagel on her way to the subway.

[00:13:38]But we don't see that. We just see Andy getting ready for work. And I get that.

[00:13:43]Again, I think it's like my real problem with this is like and my problem with a lot of Sorry, I'm getting angry. My problem with a lot of sequels is the first movie has a character learn a lesson. And that's kind of in many ways what the first movie is iconic for, right? Like we're like, "Wow, we get to watch this girl who doesn't care about fashion and luxury grow to care about these things and then realize that they've changed her in a way and kind of walk away changed." Right? That's the first movie and we love that. But then the then they they're like, "But to do a sequel, we kind of have to like undo all that learning unless we want to make it an entirely different story." So they're like, "Yes, let's start again with Andy getting ready." But we can't do the not like other girls montage because she already realized in the first film that she is like other girls. So we don't get any of that interesting juosition. It's just Andy getting ready for work.

[00:14:33]Whatever. So she's heading to the journalism awards. Andy's a big time journalist. All I've written here cuz I I wrote serial killer notes in the movie theater to remember in the dark. So, it's some of the most atrocious handwriting you've ever seen in your life. I just wrote here and Haway. She's so good. She's so likable and charismatic. Like truly Atlas carrying the world on her shoulders like just adds so much to this character. Again, this is going to happen a lot because later I'm going to tell you that Mel Stre is a good actor. So, there's going to be a lot of me basically stating the most obvious facts in the entire world.

[00:15:07]Like, I'm being like, "Annne Hathaway is a good actor. Do you guys know this?"

[00:15:10]And you're like, "Yeah, she is an she's an Oscar. Like, we know." But when you watch her, she's so great. So, she's walking to the journalism awards. She works at kind of a serious paper called the New York Vanguard. Okay. And when she's walking to work, she's walking through like a park, I guess, and there's all these vendors and one of the vendors is like showing two identical ceruan belts trying to sell it to someone to get a call back to the first movie when Miranda is like dressing a a model and trying to pick between two belts and they're like, "They're so similar and they're very similar belts."

[00:15:42]Andy laughs and then Miranda does the whole, "Oh, I see you think this has nothing to do with you." That whole monologue. So again, we're very, very self-reerential even from the very beginning. The Met is happening today as well. I don't know if they actually call it the Met Gala in universe, but it is the Met Gala, as you know, the Met Gala.

[00:15:58]The theme is picked by Anna Winour, I believe, which is basically who Miranda Priestley is supposed to be. And the theme is florals for spring. Again, another reference to the first movie, Florals for Spring, Groundbreaking. So, there's a lot in the first part of this movie being like, remember the movie that you liked? You're going to like this one. You're going to like this one cuz remember all the things you liked from the other one? Well, we're we're we're reminding you of them here. So, Andy goes to the journalism awards, her friend wins an award, and then she wins an award, and then they both get fired via text, like from their paper, because legacy media is dying, and I need you to hold on to your hats. Hold on to your hats. That is kind of what this movie is about. This movie is basically like, nobody cares about legacy media anymore.

[00:16:43]Print is dying. Journalism is dying. And like, yes, yes, yeah, that is happening.

[00:16:49]And that's bad. It's a crazy POV for The Devil Wears Prada. But I also think like fair enough, I don't know how you would be able to make this movie without referencing that because again, the whole thing is like the opulence of fashion and working at a magazine. And like if you're doing that in 2026, I feel like everyone just knows that it doesn't have as much money anymore. You can't just like update something and not reference that. One time I saw a production of Legally Blonde, the musical, and it was updated for the modern era, but they still had L dress exactly like L and then had everyone in the modern era still like undervalue her. And it just like doesn't make sense. The caricature of L. Woods, the like Pink Valley girl, bottle blonde, and then the general like thought of the time of being like, "These girls are stupid. We don't respect them." Like that is of the time. So if you transplant that archetype and that thought to now and you don't change anything about it, it's strange. It's crazy to be like the Devil Wears Prada 2 is tackling Legacy Media is dying, but like I think that they have to. So Andy goes on basically this long speech when she wins her award being like legacy media is dying. Journalism matters and the speech goes viral. You know how that would go viral? It went vi the speech goes viral at the same time as the Met Gala. Miranda Priestley and Runway Magazine as a whole are under fire because they have supported fast fashion. Here's my big thing that I'll say about The Double Wars Product 2 is that it's two movies in one. It is two movies. There's the first half of the movie and then the second half of the movie which is kind of another movie.

[00:18:16]And the first half of the movie is runway magazine has no journalistic credibility because it has run an article recently supporting like sweat shops basically supporting a type like a sheen of types. and they hire Andy to come in as the head of features to get the magazine journalistic credibility again. Now Andy has to navigate this landscape of Miranda doesn't want her there cuz Miranda didn't hire her like the publisher hired her while trying to do good news that people click on and her articles that are good still aren't getting clicks. That's generally the vibe of the first part of the movie and it's kind of a retrod of the first movie, right? in terms of structure and again like the lessons learned where it's like the first movie is Andy being like Miranda is complicated and I want her approval but this world is not for me and then she has to unlearn that lesson and be there and be like wow Miranda is complicated like she just has to learn the lesson again which is kind of boring again maybe I just shouldn't have watched the first movie less than 24 hours before watching the second movie cuz they're very similar so Andy gets a job at runway as a features writer Because Miranda and Runway are cancelled. She accepts the job and kind of is like talking to her friends, Andy.

[00:19:29]In the first movie, she has a friend played by Tracy Toms who we love and is back. And I'm so happy she's back because I do just I'm a huge Tracy Toms fan. As a fan of the Rent movie I and a Falsettos, the revival on Broadway, I am a huge Tracy Toms fan and I'm very thrilled to see her whenever she's anything. So, she's playing her friend who's like an art dealer, and I believe like Andy might be staying with her or just over there a lot. I think she might just be over there a lot. It's unclear.

[00:19:55]She has her other friend, which is the writer guy who's just like a downtrodden New York journalist. And then she has a friend played, I believe, Rachel Bloom, who's like a book editor person, works in publishing. Unclear how, but does work in publishing. And anyway, she takes the job and her friend in publishing is like, "You know what you should do? You should write a novel about Miranda." And I'm like, "Yeah, you should, babe. You should. That would sell a lot of money. That would sell a lot of money." She's like, "No, I could never do that. I would never write something mean about Miranda, that woman who supports sweat shops and has said a million fat phobic things and generally just has a disrespect for human beings as a whole." I do love Miranda and I think again the reason why The Devil Wars Prod is such a fun movie is like Miranda Priestley is like a piece of work. Like she is complicated and Merryill Streep is so good, but like Miranda Priestley sucks. Miranda Priestley is a gatekeeper and an oppressor and just because she's a woman and had to deal with a lot of coming up doesn't excuse like the fact that Miranda Priestley sucks. But Andy's like, I would never do that. But like because it's brought up in a movie, you know that she is going to do that. Andy goes into work her first day, finds out basically that Miranda didn't hire her, that she was hired by Irv, who is the publisher on the recommendation of BJ Novak. I don't know what the son's name is. He's played by BJ Novak. BJ Novak is like the publishers's son kind of rich neo baby that's helping run the company too and he's like look you should hire her so whatever Miranda's pissed because she didn't hire Andy and Andy's like what the is going on. Simone Ashley plays Miranda's first assistant and is so fantastic. It almost made me be like I know that they wouldn't make a Devil War product that's just about her and she's the main character but like I kind of wish they did. I kind of wish it was like Andy and Miranda had to be co- bosses for some reason and then it's like Simone Ashley's world and we're just limited because she's the first assistant. Caleb Heran is the second assistant who I also love. So I'm just like let's wait let's go there though.

[00:21:48]But like why don't we focus on them cuz they're amazing. Simone Ashley's whole thing is basically she's very uptight and uh is constantly trying to remind Miranda of like the things that she cannot say that are offensive. Uh it's a funny gag. I like it. I also like that they make Miranda still offensive trying to update herself for the modern era.

[00:22:06]The big problem I had with the Mean Girls musical and I had a lot of problems, but a big one I had is like it's about Mean Girls and they made Regina like woke and like not in a way of like I think that like you can write characters that are evil and woke, but they didn't do it that way where it's like really what I think Regina George should be doing is like using politically correct language to bully people. Like if somebody's rude to her, she should be like, "I spread a rumor that this person was a misogynist. I spread a rumor that this person was fat phobic." Using the language that she would have learned in her climb to the top. She would use, I think, politically correct language as like a currency, right? But instead, they just have her be like woke and like pure-hearted kind of woke, which I don't think is correct.

[00:22:49]And I was worried that like we'd get a bit of Miranda not being mean because we can't have anybody be mean and offensive anymore, even though this character is fully the the villain of this movie kind of. But no, she's offensive and I think that's good. I think it's good that she is a mean mean bad person because otherwise what the are we watching? So I appreciate that. So Andy comes in to run the features department. They have to immediately go to Dior because the advertisers are upset that Miranda and Runway have supported sweat shops. And this is the tension in the first part of the movie. It's like Andy just wants to work in journalism, but she doesn't realize that you have to make advertisers happy and get clicks, which by the way is a problem at every magazine or newspaper. Like this is not like a runway specific problem. This is not a fashion magazine specific problem.

[00:23:34]Maybe it's more pertinent at a fashion magazine, but like Andy's worked in legacy media for like 20 years and she's never learned how to generate clicks or appease advertise. That's never come up ever. Okay, so they go to Dior to be like, "We're so sorry about supporting sweat shops. please don't pull all of your advertising. And Emily works at Dior. She's in their like retail or advertising department or whatever. And they basically exchange like articles about the Dior flagship or whatever and free placement to not have Dior pull all of their clothes. And Andy's like, "You guys do that?" And it's like, "This is journalism." There's also a mention just being like, "Runways online now." It's like, "We know. I that's just nothing I nothing to say about that cuz it's so boring." But whatever. The way that like in general I find movies talk about technology makes me want to uh buy a gun. Like it makes me genuinely vi feel violent uh towards myself. It's because like they just it it just never ages well or is correct. So I think in general the best thing to do is just like not be specific, right? Don't be specific. Just be like runways all online now and don't don't say anything else. Like don't be specific beyond that because it will just change and age or you're wrong. And I think in this case like it shouldn't have aged because I'm watching the movie before it's even come out and you're wrong. Like they're just being like they're constantly talking about the app in content meetings just constantly talk about the runway app and it's like who cares interactive app experiences and stuff which I'm just like is Vogue doing interactive things on their app maybe. But it sounds really stupid. It's like and I'll tell you this and you won't be able to unsee this. If you're watching a show that's like on TV, if they have a character that is an influencer, they will constantly talk about going live, which is not really a thing unless they're like a Twitch streamer that I feel like any influencer does with the regularity that these influencers on TV and like sitcoms talk about going live. And that's because it's just a better narrative convention to have someone filming something that's happening in the moment and having people react to it. But it's like, who's going live? This is how I feel about Runway as well, the app where I'm like, "Yeah, we get it. Media is digital now."

[00:25:38]I don't care about that. At this point, I've noted in my notes that there are a million zooms. They do random like office style zooms on characters where like scene after scene after scene will be like still shots, static shots, just regular movie shots, and then there'll be like one where Andy is walking across the street and they'll zoom in on her like from like six blocks over like it's a spy movie. Very jarring. Very strange.

[00:26:01]I don't understand that choice at all.

[00:26:04]There's also 500,000 Diet Coke product placements. Everyone's drinking Diet Coke, which fair enough.

[00:26:11]Like, it makes sense for like I don't feel like that takes you out of the movie. You're like, "Yeah, everyone would be drinking Diet Coke here." I think that's fine, but you do just notice it. There's also so much product placement. I mean, it is just like The Devil Wears product. It's the same thing with like Sex in the City. any of these like shows about like clothes and luxury, Emily and Paris as well have so much product placement, especially with clothes where they're just like, "We love Dior. Dior is amazing." And it's like that's a character's dialogue being like Dior is the best. And you're like, "If this this is crazy." At one point there's Bamp slam. I feel like I just have to talk about that. when there when uh Andy visits Emily at the Dior flagship to write the article about the Dior flagship that Miranda promised Dior in exchange for them not pulling their advertising money. Emily's just like the thing about Dior is like we've made luxury a necessity for everybody. In the past it would seem insane to spend $200 on a handbag, but now Housewives and Bamp are doing it and keep Bamp's name out of your mouth. As a Canadian I stand on guard for the So Andy keeps writing stories. They're not getting clicks and she needs clicks. Andy needs to get clicks on these articles. In her entire 20 years of journalism, she's never once had to generate a click and now she's got to generate clicks. Miranda's mad at her for not generating clicks. A sentence that now has lost all meaning.

[00:27:26]You need to generate clicks. She lies and says that she's got a profile with basically Melinda Gates, but it's Sasha Barnes. It's basically like the exwife of a billionaire and they got divorced and now she's like the richest woman in the world. She doesn't do any press and she's kind of like a white whale for Miranda. Like Miranda really wants to put her in the magazine. Andy knows that. So she lies and is like, "I've got an interview with Sasha Barnes played by Lucilu and she doesn't." So then there's like 15 minutes of the movie where she's just going around trying to get the interview. this movie as I think a lot of media maybe this is just me and I'm speaking for everybody but I feel like Hollywood books the media I think everybody who's like making stuff to consume for regular people thinks that we care about billionaires way more than we actually do like modern billionaires I don't give a about them and I don't want to hear about them anymore because they depress me obviously rich people are going to be a part of narratives because like money ups the stakes but like a classic. Give me a classic millionaire. Give me an archetype of a millionaire. I don't really want to be reminded of like Elon Musk when I'm watching The Devil Wears Prada 2 or like Bill Gates. Like I don't want to think about those kind of modern tech billionaires at all. It again makes me absolutely nauseous. So there's a bit more billionaire stuff as the movie goes along, but it sucks. Whatever. So eventually she gets the Sasha Barnes interview. Miranda's like, "Whoa, good job." Happy for once. They interview her. It's very strange. It does come back at the end, but the interview is just her being like, "You haven't asked me once about my ex-husband.

[00:29:04]That's pretty classy." And she likes them. Whatever. At one point, Andy goes with Tracy Tom to look at an expensive apartment because now she's got a job and she's making twice her old salary.

[00:29:14]Let's look up like what do we think a senior editor at Vogue would make? Okay, so that's a lot. So like maybe she's making $128,000 a year. She's had the job for, let's say, a month and a half, maybe two months. And Tracy Toms is like, "You should buy a luxury apartment." Yes. A money decision that stresses me out so much. They go look at like a luxury apartment in New York. A crazy nice apartment. Andy ends up buying it eventually. And it's horrifying to me.

[00:29:43]I'm like, "You've had the job for a month, so you don't have savings. You work in journalism, so I know you don't have that much money. You've had a job for one month, and you're just banking on having it forever. a job where you know that your boss is impossibly cruel and fickle, fires everybody, did not hire you, does not like you, and you're buying a luxury apartment in Manhattan.

[00:30:04]Stressful. While she's there, she has a conversation with the contractor of the place. She doesn't know. She's just like, "It's a great apartment, but these luxury apartments are everything that's wrong with the world." And ain't that just Andy, but you buy this apartment.

[00:30:16]You're like, "This is everything that's wrong with the world, but I'm complicit." And the contractor was like, "Oh, I do these. like I I contracted this and she's like whatever. They um have some banter and Tracy Toms gets his number for her. I have a friend who saw this movie as well at a different time and we were texting about it afterwards and she said, "Why does everyone in this movie have a boyfriend?" Couldn't agree more. Miranda has a boyfriend. Oh, Kenneth Brana, who is my op, by the way.

[00:30:39]We don't have time to unpack my issues with Kenneth Brana. Cheated on Emma Thompson. Kenneth Brana, you better hope you don't see me in the streets. I will curb stomp you. You till the cows come home. And then he also directs stars in the uh Ericup Puarro like Agatha Christie movies. I love those books. I love a detective full of whimsy.

[00:31:01]Absolutely devoid of all whimsy those movies. He makes them like gritty. He makes it so that the reason that this jolly detective has a silly mustache is because he was deformed in the war. We don't have time to undo talk about my beef with Kenneth Brana, but I have it.

[00:31:16]Anyways, everyone in this movie has a boyfriend. Emily eventually has a boyfriend. Everybody has boyfriends. Who cares? I don't care about the men. I don't need to see it. I don't actually mind Miranda just having a husband and it's like never really talked about. I think that's fine. But why the are we wasting precious moments in this movie on Andy having a boyfriend? Like who cares? She goes on a date with him and eventually gets this idea that she's like, I do want to write this Miranda Priestly tell all book, but I want to write the good version of it. I don't want to be rude to Miranda and talk about all the juicy parts. They know people are going to care about the masses. Ew. I want to write about what a strong woman she is and just write the f the full story, the true story. Okay, you're not too good for this, Andy.

[00:31:58]You're not. This is also a side note that drove me crazy. She decides to write the book, calls her like friend in the publishing industry, and is like, "Hey, I want to write that book. Does that editor that you think would you think that editor that you were thinking about would be interested in this?" And she's like, "Yeah, just send in a proposal." Mama, get an agent. They're not going to give you a good. You need an agent to advocate for yourself. Andy, don't just submit right to the editor.

[00:32:18]You could go to auction. Come on, girl.

[00:32:20]Then they go to the Hamptons. Andy gets invited to like a Hampton's weekend at uh Miranda's Hampton's house. There's a funny joke somewhere in here where again Andy gets like a bunch of makeovers, which is just like truly what we want from this. Like I do just want to see her try on expensive clothes. It's a big part of the Devil Wears Prada to me. And she's talking to Nigel while she's doing this and she's like, "I just feel like I can't relax. when can I finally relax at this job? And Nigel just goes um I'd say coffin and I was like that is funny.

[00:32:48]There are some funny good jokes in this.

[00:32:50]There was times that I laughed. I saw in a big full theater and people were like laughing. I can understand some people afterwards were like I saw like on letter box were like this is not funny.

[00:32:58]And I was like well first of all have a laugh. Life is short. Have a laugh. So she goes to Miranda's house at the Hamptons at and there's this huge party and she basically just meets a ton of celebrities. She meets Jenna Bush Hagar, Carl Anthony Towns. Truly just like random celebrity after random celebrity.

[00:33:17]It's insane. There's This is also, I guess, the point where we should mention that there was a cut Sydney Sweeney cameo. Thank god. This movie would be 5 hours long if I had to talk about the Sydney Sweeney cameo in the Devils Prada 2, but apparently she was getting like dressed by Emily. Yeah, good. Amazing.

[00:33:31]And they cut the scene. Thank god. I will say to all these celebrities here, I would say no shame. Like if I was asked to cameo in the Devil Wars Produ Like I would do it. No shame.

[00:33:41]Absolutely. I would be there in 1 second. My favorite celebrity cameo in a romcom chick flick though is Salmon Rushy in uh Bridget Jones's diary and he's just like just broke my fat.

[00:33:54]That we need more of that in the Devil Wars Produ Like I want to see Salmon Rushy at Miranda Priestley's house. Get with it. Come on. At one point, Miranda and Andy are inside and Miranda's talking about how she's going to get promoted to like head of all content at Elias Clark, the publisher. And this is the part where I just have to be like, Meryill Streep is such a good actor. Not to be like to be like like obviously like yes, but she plays this character so funny, so mean, so guarded, but it feels so real. You're never really watching it being like that's Merryill Streep. And then she pulls back in these moments of like real fragile vulnerability. Like again, not to be like, "Hey, Merryill Streep is pretty good at acting, but she is so good." She basically says that Irv, the publisher, is going to announce that Miranda is head of all content for Elias Clark at his birthday that the publisher is throwing. Great. This is when Andy moves into the apartment, makes the worst money decision. Like, get like look, it's real estate in Manhattan. I get it.

[00:34:53]But I'm like, girl, you've had the job for 3 months and you're not guaranteed the job and you have a mortgage. The way people spend their money really stresses me out. They go to the party, the birthday party. Amelia the Moldenberg is there. More celeb cameo. Love, love, love. And then we find out that Emily is dating Benji Barnes. Benji Barnes.

[00:35:12]That's a kind of crazy name. Like the Bill Gates billionaire. She's dating him now. And you know what? Like again, I don't really care about billionaires narratively. I don't think it's interesting. At least what they did was gave they made him truly an idiot and gave him a lot of really really funny jokes. like they would cut to him constantly and he would just be like having a conversation where he'd be like soon you're not even going to need your neck. You can just get your neck surgically removed. You don't need it anymore. Or at one point people are getting served at a table and they're like, "Oh, do you want some water?" He's like, "No, I'm not doing water anymore.

[00:35:40]It's poison." Like there's there are some they give him some funny jokes. I do appreciate that. Basically, right before Iv announces that Miranda is going to be head of content, he has a heart attack and dies. I'm in. Like I was obviously when you're watching this and Miranda finally smiles and is nice and it's like I'm gonna get a promotion.

[00:35:57]You know it's not going to happen. But I thought she was kind of gonna get over all the first movie. Nope. He dies. I was sh I was like I was shocked. I was like that's good. That's fun writing.

[00:36:07]That's what I come to expect from the Devil Wars Produ.

[00:36:14]I did laugh. And because he died before it was announced, Miranda doesn't get a promotion. And the new head of the Elias Clark whatever syndicate that feels wrong is BJ Novak, the kind of, you know, fail son Nepo baby whatever in the role of a lifetime. He's fantastic. All the acting in this movie I think is really really good. They go to the funeral of this guy. Miranda's trying to like figure out if she's getting the promotion still and she's like, you know, I'm so I loved working with your grandfather and your father and now I'm going to work with I can't wait to work with you and he's like totally me and you we're going to grab this football and run it into the end zone together.

[00:36:47]And she goes, "The end zone." So beautifully put. Meil Stre is so good.

[00:36:52]Emily's at the funeral and pissed that Dolce and Gabbana dressed everyone and not Dior. And she said, "It's to get back." She's like, "Of course it's they want to get back at me for putting Kendall in at the end of the runway show." Kendall Jenner. It's funny. And then and then Benji, her boyfriend, who's stupid as goes, "It's crazy that somebody's named Kendall." Good. They continue basically planning. We get now to the part, I would say, the second part of the movie, which is Milan.

[00:37:14]Runway is planning this kind of event in Milan. I don't know. It's just similar to the first movie where they all go to Paris, right? But this is the second movie which is Operation Save Runway from evil consolidators trying to stop us where Ben not Benji um BJ Novak basically brings in a team of tech business people and they're going to cut everything. There's a lot of fun like espionage that happens with Andy's assistant who listens in on the conversation and stuff. I can't talk about everything that happens in the movie, but there are a lot of like fun I do think it's like a wellwritten movie.

[00:37:48]You know what I mean? Like there's fun stuff happening at every turn. Maybe I also feel this way because the last time I did a movie review on this channel, I feel like it was a Colleen Hoover movie, which like nothing is happening in those, but like there was a lot of fun stuff happening in this. They're basically cutting everything in Runway.

[00:38:04]They're cutting the features department, which Andy runs, and Andy has I don't know if you know this, a mortgage to pay. Now, Andy is renting a luxury apartment or owning it. I don't know. I guess she's pro. I don't know. But Andy's got surely $5,000 in rent that she has to pay. And the futures department's getting shut down. Anybody who's worked there more than three years gets fired because they're too expensive. All these things are happening. They've got to fly coach to Milan, which is a very funny scene.

[00:38:30]Watching Miranda Priestley walk through first class to like business. I don't even know what it's called. It's just the regular part of the plane, you It was just the plane, but whatever it is.

[00:38:38]And she's like, "I can't deal with this.

[00:38:40]I need get me a drink." And Simone Ashley is like, "Can we have a glass of your finest champagne?" The stewartist is like, "No." Very funny. Also a crazy joke when they're planning the Milan show where Miranda Priestley goes, "I know so many," first of all, she calls, she's like, "We have so many models that are body negative." And someone asked, she's like, "No, it's body positive."

[00:38:57]And she goes, "Right, body positive. Why crazy?" But they did not neuter my girl Miranda. She is offensive and evil and exactly what this character should be.

[00:39:07]This should be an impossibly outofouch mean woman. She should not be woke because Miranda is an oppressor. You know what I mean? Right before they go to Milan, um Andy gets in a fight with her boyfriend. Who cares? Who cares?

[00:39:21]Where she's basically upset. Fair enough. It's the POV of the movie where she's like, "We can't just keep stripping everything down to be efficient." It's the theme of the movie, but it's like, you know, there's these things basically being like, they're cutting everything. All journalism is getting cut. Everything's now getting cut and streamlined and turned into something new, whatever, right? And she's not wrong. Like, she is correct. I think that there's something to be said about like, why are we doing this? Like, we're just doing this because these random people in suits tell us that we should cuz it'll be more it'll make people more money. But it's like, but why? We don't ask ourselves why. I I actually don't mind this POV for the movie. And hering contractoring luxury apartment contractor boyfriend's like, "Well, that's actually what I do." And then she says, "Well, journalism is more important than luxury apartments." And people in my movie theater were like, "Ooh, like it's presented as like, Andy, you're hubris. You're being so mean."

[00:40:12]But she's right. And he should know that. You know, if my partner were a nurse and they came home and were compare complaining about being a nurse, they're like, "Oh my god, it just sucks cuz I don't get paid very much." And so many people get overpaid for what they do. And I'm like, well, actually, as a content creator, you're talking about me. And then my partner went, well, being a nurse is more important than having a podcast. I would be like, fair.

[00:40:34]Yes, you're not wrong. Like, you're not.

[00:40:36]So, why is he like, I'm going to go.

[00:40:38]Nobody's saying you have to have a morally good job, but like, let's be realistic. Being a journalist is more important than being a contractor who makes luxury apartments. Even if Andy's job is at runway, she's kind of talking loosely about like the work she did at the New York Vanguard, her old magazine, where she was like reporting on the Federal Reserve and like unions. Like that is more important than making apartments for the children of war criminals, you know? Right before they go to Milan, Andy goes to Miranda's house. Insane in is this is insane. Like I I in I feel like I didn't really think about this in the first movie cuz I watched it when I was so young, but like she shows up to Miranda's house similar to in the first movie. She accidentally goes upstairs in the first movie, but she's like, "Miranda, do you have a plan to save Runway?" And Miranda's like, "Leave."

[00:41:23]And like, "Fair enough." Like, your employee is just like, "I'm at your home." Like, I'd be like, "You simply text me. Simply write me an email. Why are you at my house?" And because Miranda's like, "You need to go." And she doesn't have a plan to save Runway.

[00:41:35]Andy writes the mean book proposal that she was above before and sends it off to her friend in publishing. They go to Milan, go to a bunch of shows. It's just a slideshow. Not a slideshow, like a montage of Nigel, Andy, and Miranda walking into different shows in fabulous clothing while Vogue by Madonna plays exact kind of like audio reference to the first movie. And this is when I realized I was like, you know what? If the movie is going to be so se self-reerential, I wish we had more like audio references. The opening of the movie, the first movie is Suddenly I See. Then there's a different song that plays for a montage where Andy is wearing a bunch of new clothes and stuff. I was like, I w I actually kind of wish we had those. I think that would be fun because it was really fun when Vogue played. At one point, Nigel and Andy are watching Emily and Benji in like a jewel store. It's some jewel designer, but I don't remember what. And she's getting on like a really fancy necklace and he's buying it for her. And they're like watching her talking about her basically because they're going to use Emily's boyfriend's money, billionaire money, to buy runway and save it. But they're talking about that, but they're like the store is made of glass. So it's like they're obviously there. You know what I like? Like like if Emily just like looked that way. You just see them both staring at you, talking about you. Anyways, they meet up together. Andy and Emily meet and conspire while Emily at one point is having lunch with Donatella Versace and they scream at each other. It's very funny. They go and meet Benji at some like Italian villa or whatever. Nigel is not involved in this. He doesn't know what's happening. And basically Benji buys Runway and saves Runway. They go to the place where the event is going to be held. Andy, Miranda, Nigel, whatever.

[00:43:14]And there's a it's where the there's like a painting of the Last Supper.

[00:43:16]Miranda kind of speaks in double speaking like interesting how Jesus was betrayed. Love it. Absolutely what the movie should be at any given point.

[00:43:26]And Andy's like, "Oh my god. Oh my god.

[00:43:28]Emily, we have to tell Miranda. She knows something's up." So they go and they tell Miranda. I mean, yeah. They go and they tell Miranda, "Oh, it's okay.

[00:43:34]like, "We're buying it so you can keep your job. It'll be fine." And Miranda's like, "Wow, I did not think you were capable of this betrayal." And Andy's like, "What? No, we're helping you." And she's like, "No, Benji is buying the magazine so Emily can run it." And it's true. Emily double crossed her. Here's what I will say. This movie, the twists and turns, I was I did not see them coming and I I appreciated that. Emily wants to run the magazine. And she's like, "You never gave me a chance, so now I'm going to run it." And Miranda goes to her like, "Fine, but you're going to fail. You are not a visionary.

[00:44:03]You are a vendor. I would literally throw myself out of a window. Like, she's so mean. Thank God. I'm just thrilled that she's mean. Andy's like, "Okay, we got to fix this." Whatever.

[00:44:12]She's trying to fix it. She doesn't know what to do. She goes back to her part uh to her hotel room. Her editor friend calls and is like gets a she got a book deal for that proposal for $350,000.

[00:44:22]And Andy's like, "No, girl. You have a mortgage to pay. Take it." Then we get a scene that's just Miranda and Kenneth Brana, her boyfriend, talking. And I don't think we had this in the first This This was interesting. and my friend who saw the movie separately. Her criticism of the movie in general was kind of like it pulls away too much of the mystery of Miranda and we see a bit too much of her because I think the movie understands that fundamentally she is the most interesting character but I think it's more effective in in these in these little glimpses and I think in the first movie it was told entirely from Andy's point of view. We might have seen little like visual montages and stuff but we never saw a scene happening that Andy wasn't a part of. Right? like we never saw that and all of the the world of fashion was explained to us like we are Andy. But in this movie we have a scene that Andy doesn't know anything about which I think is interesting just weird. Anyways, the whole point of this is that Miranda's not going down without a fight. She goes the next scene. It's like Andy make some calls So Miranda's going to all these shows while Andy's calling people in her hotel room trying to get everything figured out.

[00:45:23]They have to go to the big runway event that night and Gaga is performing. Sure.

[00:45:27]And there is a really fun scene where basically Miranda Priestley and Lady Gaga like hate each other and snipe at each other and they just have like a little fight and it is a lot of fun because Lady Gaga is a fantastic actress. So like the house of Gucci, sorry I said that like Dracula, but Lady Gaga is a really good actress so they can kind of play with her being a famous person but it feels more justified cuz it's an interesting story. She sings a song during the um fashion show event.

[00:45:54]And at this point I was a bit like this is Coco Melon for adults which I do feel sometimes when I'm watching like Emily in Paris as well where it's just like flashing lights flashing flashing lights music live music flashing lights live music pretty clothes models models flashing lights.

[00:46:11]Like it's literally just so you can be like it's not not Coco Melon for adults. It's melting your brain. So Andy shows up and it's like, "Miranda, I fixed it, but if we want to save runway, we've got to go now." And Miranda's supposed to give a speech. And she's like, "But I have to give a speech." And then Andy's like, "Actually, there's somebody here that can speak for one runway on your behalf, who's amazing, who never ever asks for anything." And she means Nigel. And I actually do like that. I love these characters relationships. She's advocating like Nigel's kind of like always telling her to pull it back a bit and always telling Nigel to push it forward. They're kind of like Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. Right.

[00:46:50]Right. So Nigel gives the speech for runway kind of gets to step into the spotlight and take over a bit and they have a scene again which Andy is not a part of. But I'm not even complaining at this point where basically Meyer Street is talking to Stanley Tucci, but it's Miranda's talking to Nigel being like, "Have I taken you for granted?" And they talk and the acting is so good. I just um in a real way did not take notes for a bit. Like I don't remember. I couldn't tell you. I was just like in it. It was so good. So, basically, they have to go and uh save Runway. Nigel gives the speech. Miranda and Andy go to the villa again where the billionaire and Emily are. BJ Novak is about to sell Runway to them and everything's going to be owned by the billionaire so Emily can run Runway. But then he gets a call and he's like, "So, actually, someone um bought Elias Clark the whole publishing thing and it's such a like money suck that I've been trying to offload it forever.

[00:47:38]So, our deal isn't going through.

[00:47:39]Somebody else already bought Elias Clark. So, bye." And who bought it?

[00:47:42]billionaire Lucy Lou. Sharon Bates, what's her name? Sasha Barnes buys it and is hands off and she's like, "I'm just going to let you guys run the magazine." And that's why for real you have a billionaire in the plot so that they can fix anything. On the drive back, Miranda says to Andy, "You should write that book though." Oh. And I was like, "That's fun." The kind of all knowing pot stirer Miranda is fun. Where she's like, of course I know that you're writing a book about me. people rush to tell you that. She doesn't say it as crazy as I said it because I speak insane. She's a lot more chill. But uh really fun writing. I had a I that was fun. And he's like, "Well, I'm not going to write it like mean. I respect you."

[00:48:22]And she's like, "Girl, you you might think that we're like friends now, but like we'll see. You should write the book and write all the juicy details because people should know that there's a cost." That's just good stuff. That's just good stuff. That's good dialogue.

[00:48:34]Okay. Then when they get back, Annne Hathaway, I mean, Andy makes up with the Australian contractor. Who who cares?

[00:48:42]Who cares? And then we cut time jump.

[00:48:45]And Andy is getting lunch with Emily who has a blonde bleach job now. And Emily is just kind of like, I up. I'm the social pariah now because I tried to usurp Miranda. I don't work at Dior anymore. I work at Coach. Which should get a big laugh from the theater as if any of us are like above Coach, which I love. And she was like, "I wanted to be your friend after you left runway, but you know, you never called whatever."

[00:49:06]And they kind of become friends. And Andy gives her a little pep talk being like, "Everybody up, okay, but just get get up, whatever." Then Andy goes back to Runway. You'll notice, I just learned this, and I noticed this in this movie a lot, and it's kind of crazy. I just learned this in TV and movies, the sidewalk is often wet just cuz it looks better on film. And now if you look, and it's in this movie a lot, and it's in a lot of other movies, too. The sidewalk is just randomly wet. It's like a sunny day, but the sidewalk is sping wet. And that's how she's going into runway.

[00:49:34]Soping wet sidewalk, not a cloud in the sky. And uh she goes in and talks to Nigel. It's like, I'm just so happy to work at Runway. The way that fate brought us back together. He says, "It wasn't fate. You remember when you won the journalism award and then went viral for saying that journalism matters? I sent that to BJ Novak and he showed his dad and I said to them, "You should hire her." And then they hired you. He's been pulling the strings the whole time behind the scenes. And then he says, "Forever my girl." And it's very sweet.

[00:49:59]Andy goes in to drop off in the last scene of the movie a hard cover of her new story for Miranda. And she's wearing a blue sweater vest that is a kind of deconstructed version of the blue sweater she wears in the first movie, the Cerulean sweater. Oh, I see you think this has nothing to do with you.

[00:50:17]So that's the movie. Through talking it through, where I kind of land is like as a movie, is it good? I gave it like three stars, three and a half. Like as an actual just movie removed from the product itself, it's fine. Like it's weird. The structure is strange. It's longer. It It's not even that long. It's like 2 hours long, but it just feels kind of long, but the acting is good.

[00:50:40]There's a lot of really good dialogue and character moments. So, there's that.

[00:50:44]But I think I would rank it almost higher as a 2026 sequel to a movie. Do you know what I mean? like as a studio cash grab nostalgia bait project. It's very good. I thought it was going to be so bad that I was pleasantly surprised.

[00:51:00]It's a sequel with an interesting point of view about legacy media, sure. Great acting, sure. There's a lot of fun moments. Thank you so much for watching.

[00:51:08]I'll see you soon. Bye.