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‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ Is a Tragically Messy Knockoff
April 29, 2026
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Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/20th Century StudiosIn style as in life, tradition is always at war with progress. This conflict is acutely relevant to movie sequels, which try to conjure magic by finding novel ways to do what worked in the original. Alas, The Devil Wears Prada 2 struggles to marry the old and the new through a story about that very struggle, revisiting its iconic characters and haute couture culture without the wit and romance that made its predecessor a hit.
Despite looking great, it comes off as a humdrum knockoff of bygone fashion.Director David Frankel’s 2006 The Devil Wears Prada was an assured amalgam of a romantic comedy and a young-woman-makes-it-in-the-big-city fantasy, with Anne Hathaway as the flummoxed ingenue in a foreign fashion (and publishing) world and Meryl Streep as the imperious Cruella de Vil-style Anna Wintour proxy.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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