The Devil Wears Prada 2

Everyone's back for this enjoyable 20-years-later legacyquel including director David Frankel, producer Wendy Finerman, screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna, and stars Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci. Kenneth Branagh, Justin Theroux, B. J. Novak, and Lucy Liu are also along for this follow-up to the wildly successful 2006 high-end fashion workplace comedy, as well as more cameos than you can fit into an off-the-rack evening gown from Lane Bryant.

Streep's Anna Wintour surrogate, Miranda Priestly, is still at the head of the Vogue surrogate, Runway magazine, while her former assistant, Andy Sachs (Hathaway), has become a successful journalist. But it sucks being a journalist in today's media climate, and when Andy and her entire newsroom get fired by text right before she accepts an award for her writing, her speech goes semi-viral and the owner of the multinational that owns Runway brings her on as the new features editor without first consulting Miranda. Despite Miranda's annoyance at this little surprise, the new job turns out to be just what the doctor ordered for both Runway and Andy. The two, along with Miranda's long-suffering right-hand-man, Nigel Kipling (Tucci), gracefully navigate the world of digital media, ignorant nepobabies, backstabbing frenemies, and corporate takeovers.

How much one enjoys this movie will greatly depend on how much you miss the type glamours, lightweight, escapist comedies that use to be such a major part of the cinematic landscape. If you're put off by characters who had an edge twenty years ago but now succumb to the decease of mandatory niceness that seems non-negociable for studio comedies these days, you're gonna want to skip this and rewatch the original. No one above the title in a movie like this get's to be all that bad in 2026.

I personally fall just into the former camp. I miss the days when we got well made fluff like this that paid cursory attention to the issues of the day by crafting amusing plots in which characters triumph over incredible odds in completely unrealistic but deeply satisfying ways. Still, I didn't love the original as much as the rest of the world seemed to, and can't say I remember it all that well. Maybe I'd feel a bit let down if I did, but, as legacyquels go, I think this delivers the goods.