"Working Girl" for the 00's

Rating: 7/10 (1 October 2006)

In the 80's "Working Girl", the heroine worked beyond the call of duty and triumphed despite her dragon boss. Her reward was her own office amongst thousands of identical offices but other than that last pull-away shot the lifestyle she had bought into (struggled into) went unquestioned. Here, faced with the same success, our 00's girl says "No, that's not me" and rejects the non-life of the super-successful. Is this perhaps a healthier message?
Otherwise, an enjoyable movie thanks mainly to Streep and Tucci - without whom it would have been another in the Princess Diaries franchise. A bit of a step-back for Hathaway after breaking away in "Brokeback Mountain", I'd have thought, though it was fun to see the film-makers style her as an Audrey Hepburn in the Paris scenes. There is a lot about the movie that doesn't make sense, but then we came for the bitchy dialogue, didn't we?