Ms. Streep saves the day

Rating: 6/10 (14 July 2006)

I wasn't really impressed with the book, but I thought the cast of this film could possibly make it into a good movie. Meryl Streep was absolutely fabulous and believable as the quietly bitchy boss from hell. Anne Hathaway, in my opinion, was miscast as Andy Sachs, the hapless wannabe journalist who is hired to be an assistant to Streep's character, who is the editor of THE fashion magazine. I never bought that Hathaway had transformed into the kind of person she'd never wanted to be. She just seems like her sweet self throughout the entire movie, regardless of her change of wardrobe. Her so called transformation needed to be much more obvious in order for the film to truly work. The nasty assistant, Emily, played by Emily Blunt, nearly steals the show. And of course, Stanley Tucci is his usual brilliant self. His part of the story, unfortunately, is too marginal to make a difference. The group of young people who play Andy's friends are also not given enough of a role. The movie was fairly true to the book, which might be its main problem. All in all, not a bad way to spend an afternoon, but this probably won't be a DVD that joins our personal collection.