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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Peter Bradshaw

The Devil Wears Prada 2 review – a sequel? For spring? Groundbreaking

Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada 2.
Withering heights … Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada 2. Photograph: Ent-movie/Alamy

Twenty years have gone by; the fashion and publishing worlds have changed but Satan’s clothing and accessory choices are pretty much what they were. It’s time for a sprightly and amiable sequel to the adored mid-00s Manhattan romcom that followed the adventures of would-be serious writer and saucer-eyed ingenue Andrea “Andy” Sachs, played by Anne Hathaway. Straight out of college in one of the flyover states, she fluked a job at iconic New York fashion magazine Runway, edited by the terrifying and amusingly surnamed Miranda Priestly, played of course by Meryl Streep. Miranda doesn’t look a day older in the sequel, and nor does Nigel, played by Stanley Tucci, still in post as her loyal, worldly, privately melancholy second-in-command.

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