Doesn't live up to Streep

Rating: 3/10 (28 May 2007)

Streep's performance is great, and I love her speech about why Andy is wearing a cerulean top (and it's NOT because she's got no taste). There is a genuine moral to this tale, probably not the one the makers intended: when you leave university and find not everyone is clamouring for your services, learn a little humility. And whatever you're doing, care - even if it's flipping burgers. But I expect idealism wins in this film - I didn't make it to the end. If you work at a magazine, it is too painfully like real life. A few random comments: I suppose Anne Hathaway was wearing a padded bra before the makeover. One day, though, can we have a film about an ugly duckling who becomes a swan where the duckling really is a bit more ugly than the luminously beautiful Miss Hathaway? Couldn't she have looked a bit more like a candidate from What Not to Wear? And finally, of course the villain has to have an English accent!