It was different from what I expected (and not in a good way...)

Rating: 4/10 (15 December 2007)

Normally, I'm quite the fan of chick flicks and I expected it to be pretty good, but boy was I in for a surprise.
This movie, which is about a plain girl working as an assistant to the owner of a fashion magazine, seemed to have many similarities to one of my favorite TV shows, Ugly Betty, but was no where as nearly as good. First off, Merryl Streep's character came off as annoying instead of nasty. Her constant sarcasm would prevent us, the viewer, from actually knowing what she was thinking, thus making Streep's acting appear almost nonexistent. Anne Hathaway, whom I had enjoyed watching in Princess Diaries, didn't have many redeeming values herself. Besides letting her job rule her life, thus preventing her from seeing her friends, she couldn't even reconcile with her boyfriend after she had quite her job, partly cause she was cheating on some other jerk that was full of himself. They just decided to go their separate ways and just left it like that, which made me even more annoyed because they could've simply worked it out and gotten back together, but their splitting up just left me annoyed. On the note of her boyfriend, he didn't have much redemption himself. Sure, he was a nice guy, but was an extremely annoying sap that got all angry at Hathaway because she was working too much, which was ridiculous.
As you may already know, Devil Wears Prada was actually based off a novel of the same name by Lauren Weisberger. As practically always, the book is better than the movie, but this time much stronger. The end was totally differ en, there was different characters, and was overall superior to this poor excuse for a chick flick.
In conclusion, this movie was funny at times, but generally unacceptable. I suggest you should ditch the chick flick version and read the original chick lit version of the same name.