one of my favorites

Rating: 6/10 (21 December 2006)

though this movie was a bit predictable, you know, at first she cant handle the job but then she gets a make over and does well, then she becomes a "glamazon" i mean, yes predictable, there are so many just funny slap stick lines in there, so many fun little bits and movements and looks, that really come from all the actors (not just Meryl Streep) Though Meryl Streep is, i think, the greatest actress in movies right now, i don't think we should credit the entire movie to her. Yes she is phenomenal, but Anne Hathaway has a very quiet acting style. But I think Emily Blunt is just as good, or even better than Anne Hathaway. She is my favorite character (other than Miranda of course). She has a certain air about her that makes me laugh every time she comes on the screen. Also, on the more negative side, i think the major flaw in the plot is Andy's friends. they keep getting mad at her and fail to see that Andy (until the very end) still wants to be a journalist, and that she needs to do well for Miranda to succeed her dream. If her little boyfriend really loved her, he would have understood. Also the comedy mostly comes from specific lines, "gird your loins" for example, but the one line that i think has nothing to do with anything is when Andy is talking to Christian Thompson, she says "if Miranda were a man, no one would notice anything about her except how great she is at what she does", where did that come from? Sure i am a girl, and i believe in womens rights, but i don't think that line was necessary. Nobody elaborated on the subject at all. But yet, that doesn't ruin the movie. through everything, the movie is still one of my favorites to watch, though i skip through parts i don't like (most scenes without Streep).