A good movie, but the book was better

Rating: 8/10 (9 July 2006)

I read Lauren Weisberger's novel when it first came out. I loved the novel despite the usual 20-something trade quirks in it as it resonates so well about how management can be not only over-demanding but foolish, inefficient, and their own worst enemy.
No doubt the details of the Novel had to be changed for various reasons to please the "Dailies" and the "Cards", I am certain the movie would need an R rating if it followed the book more closely, which it should have done. Let's be honest. The language looked like the novel was written by Walt Disney or Geroge Lucas and that is not honest.
It was disappointing to see some of the peripheral characters reduced even more. While Hathaway did a fantastic job, given her past two dimensional stilted work from Disney, I still do not find Streep as great a legend everyone makes her out to be, though she was indeed satisfactory. Except that I find this particular role more akin to her Chimerical politics which all too often ruin an artists craft.
Beyond that, the movie was a good movie.