Nice but not Academy Award material

Rating: 6/10 (11 January 2007)

*************this might contain spoilers**************** I want to get this down while it's still fresh. I liked The Devil Wears Prada. For a couple of hours you couldn't ask for a more entertaining movie. Merle Streep has gotten 'hold of a meaty part and exploits it for all it's worth. Somehow I was thinking of Jane Fonda who I think could have done it up brown but sadly, Fonda is not a money screen name anymore. Some think that Streep should win some kind of award, I don't. Sure, it's a good role and she knows it and does justice to her part but Acadamy Award caliber, no. Now, if you want to talk awards, I thought that Ann Hathaway was terrific and she held her own against Streep. Many thought that the "career girl" whose name I can't remember was outstanding, I thought she was goo, too, but not outstanding. Getting back to Hathaway, she reminded me a lot of the young Liza Minnelli, for some reason. I also liked Stanley Tucci although he always plays heavy's or butch types, he looked liked he was enjoying himself. What I did get to see was the great attention paid to the haute couture world that one did not get in Robert Altman's Ready To Wear film. And the last time I remember seeing a movie about a woman's fashion magazine was in Funny Face when Kay Thompson slamming the latest edition of her mag said to her staff " this doesn't speak to me and if it doesn't speak to me it doesn't speak to the women of the world." She also said " the women of the world is standing out there, naked, ready for me to tell her what to wear. But if she's gotta think, think pink!"
All in all I think it's nice to rent some evening. I liked the high production and the outreageous clothes that women seem to like.