Meryl Streep returns as Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada 2
Meryl Streep returns as Miranda Priestly in the devil wears prada 2, and the sequel lands as a reunion that looks back more than forward. The review calls it “a sequel? For spring? Groundbreaking,” then argues the film largely recycles the first movie’s machinery with new industry jargon.
Twenty years after the original release, Andy Sachs is laid off from an upmarket broadsheet where she had been winning awards for serious articles. She then takes a job as features editor at Runway, putting Anne Hathaway back opposite Streep, Stanley Tucci back as Nigel, and Emily Blunt back as Emily.
Runway on smaller budgets
Runway now operates on far smaller budgets than it once did, which shifts the sequel’s stakes from old-school magazine power to a thinner, more anxious business. Miranda has to pay lip-service to body positivity and rejecting heteronormativity in the workplace, and she is schooled in the correct language by her new assistant, Amari, played by Simone Ashley.
That change is the sharpest update in the film. Miranda even has to fly coach, a detail that places the character inside a media economy that no longer behaves like the one she ruled twenty years ago.
Miranda, Emily, and Dior
Emily Blunt’s Emily is now the head of Dior, while Justin Theroux plays her boyfriend Benji and Kenneth Branagh plays Miranda’s boyfriend. The sequel also brings in Patrick Brammall as Andy’s Australian real-estate magnate boyfriend, widening the personal side of the story without moving far from the workplace power games.
The review says the film reflects how fashion and publishing have changed, with ultra-luxury brands for the 0.1% described as recession-proof. That leaves the sequel straddling two eras at once: the old magazine hierarchy is still there, but the money and status have moved toward a different class of client.
Hamptons, Milan, and the old plot
The film returns to the cafeteria scenes, the wardrobe-picking scene, a trip to the Hamptons, a trip to Milan, and a corporate coup plot. It also includes star-fan cameos, which keeps the sequel busy even as the review suggests it is leaning hard on familiar beats.
Aline Brosh McKenna and David Frankel are back in the creative lineup, alongside the returning cast. That makes the sequel feel less like a reinvention than a polished rerun with a new vocabulary, and readers heading in should expect the same power structure, only dressed for a media world that now chases clicks and caters upward.
