1 hour and 48 minutes gladly spent in Hell.

Rating: 9/10 (17 February 2007)

The best comedy I've seen in years.
Let's start from the beginning because I found nearly everything about this movie utterly perfect.
The script is sharp and fun, never boring and brilliantly written, there's never a whole, not one scene is too long and the dialogues captured me.
The directing by David Frankel is very good and overall smart, in portraying the world of fashion to make it sparkly and captivating inall its pretence.
The costumes are like special effects for this movie and well, if you're a girl (or a gay guy) you'll find yourself drooling in front of the screen over shoes and jackets like my girl was.
But the acting, oh my God! The acting in this movie is like a perfect dessert. Anne Hathaway is absolutely adorable, she is believable and she does a great job achieving to stand out in a group of superb actors. She is the only lead, however, who in my opinion deserves a negative critique: she could have pushed herself much more forward, I felt like she was playing it really "safe" while she could have added a much sharper gap between the pre and post-runway Andy. Emily Blunt is the rising star of the movie, I've always had a thing for British actresses (and red-heads) and, seeing Emily for the first time in this movie, I was totally captivated. She is a superb characterizer, she steals the scene, she is funny, inventive and has an unbelievable screen presence, she is going to go far. Stanley Tucci is one of my favourite supporters, he's given a character here that most actors would have overpowered, letting Nigel drawn in the sea of stereotyped gay characters. However Tucci's capable hands gave Nigel a sharp tongue and a big heart, despite the appearance. But the absolute queen of hell is the always wonderful Meryl Streep. When you think of Meryl you usually think of drama, deep emotions and most of the times tears. She's stepping out of her element here, this performance was calculated, cold and always balanced, like Letterman said commenting the movie "it's like that club you never have to reach for, but you know it's there"; yet it is impossible to completely hate Miranda Priestly, Streep gives her a touching fragility as we see her as a woman and mother and not as the overruling boss of Runway, she gave up too much of her life for her job to let anything or anyone step in her way, "If you want this life, those choices are necessary".
Watch this movie, you'll laugh a lot, you'll think a little and you'll find yourself smiling at the end of it.