Yada yada Prada

Rating: 4/10 (7 July 2007)

I know I''m in the minority, but Meryl Streep's reputation continues to baffle me. "Sophie's Choice--yes. Much of her other work--HUH? Here she plays Miranda Frost as if she she is auditioning to be the hostess for "The Weakest Link." (One Anne Robinson is more than enough.) Anne Hathaway isn't bad--she looks eerily like a young Jacklyn Smith. I didn't see a great deal in Emily Blunt's performance. Stanley Tucci probably delivered the best performance. The plot was predictable--"The Best of Everything" did it much better, and it wasn't exactly the most original movie even when it appeared in the Fifties. If you blinked, you missed James Naughton's performance--I hope he was well-paid. (And I kept watching for a shot of the current Pope wearing his Prada. I will refrain from making any other comment about him and the title of the film.) The main impact of the movie was to make me want to watch Kay Thompson in "Funny Face" again.