It has its faults, but I enjoyed it.

Rating: 8/10 (2 August 2009)

Yes, "The Devil Wears Prada" is formulaic and predictable and its script has a number of small flaws, but is it a bad film? In my opinion, no, it is not and cannot be a bad film, despite its predictability and other minor faults with the script. To begin with, Streep is always good, one of the greatest actors of our generation, and although I always imagine her more in her real-life persona, vivacious but never over the top, marvelously self-assured without a trace of arrogance, and very natural and utterly unspoilt by success, I can see what a jump it would be for her and a demand on her acting ability to portray the ruthless, hard-as-nails Miranda Priestley, the Devil to Anne Hathaway's character, Andrea Sachs. But she, Streep, does it with all the consummate ease of a truly professional and exceedingly talented actress, which she is. Anne Hathaway is good and portrays her character with credibility and charm and she is well-cast in the film, as are the other supporting actors such as Stanley Tucci and Simon Baker. However, for all this I don't take it too seriously: it is a typically "chick-flick" comedy-romance, not Shakespearian drama, and therefore tends towards the shallow but I can suspend disbelief at some of the more unrealistic episodes and instances in the film's script or the original book (which I've not read), as the case may be, and just watch it for the sake of enjoying it, which I most certainly did. It gets four out of five from me, i.e. 80 percent, which is what it's truly worth, again, in my opinion.