What was that? Romantic, No, Comedic, barely

Rating: 6/10 (6 July 2006)

Hello Moviegoers, The Devil Wears Prada looks so promising in the trailer. You think you're gonna get this smart sophisticated movie with lots of bitchy one liners.
Well, what you really get is an insipid movie about a young womans angst regarding how much of a sell-out to be to forward her career.
Ann Hathaway is the young woman with the career problems, coulda' been any attractive young actress. Meryl Streep is a terrific comic actress, loved her in Death Becomes Her, sadly Prada is not her movie, it's Hathaways. Stanley Tucci is reliably excellent, but here isn't given much to do except flounce around.
I thought it was gonna be a comedy, and there ARE four or five good laughs. It's not even a romantic comedy, what romance there is is pitifully anemic.
I oughta rate movies according to how many times I check my watch. This one was about a six, meaning, "When will The Devil Wears Prada disappear in a puff of smoke and let me outa here?
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