A Hollywood lecture...

Rating: 4/10 (10 March 2007)

A Hollywood lecture on Moral and Ethics... Give me a break! - Working hard is "out", your boss is the devil, having a successful career is wrong, or at least immoral... Things that are "in" include being sloppy, average, unsuccessful, going back to your boring, loser boyfriend, quitting a dream job because it is demanding ("...because hell, a job mustn't be demanding at all to be considered worth keeping nowadays..."), etc.
These are just some of the messages this movie passes on to the audience... How much more 'political correctness' can a decent human being take all at once... What a load of contemporary liberal Hollywood Bu****it! Berardinelli hits the mark when in his review he asks: 'Whatever happened to hard-edged endings in satires?' Yes, exactly, what happened to them? Well, the answer is: We invented political correctness...
Having said that, on a positive note, the performances of Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci are by far the best thing in this movie, the only thing that makes this film worth watching. Again I will borrow from Berardinelli's review where he says: 'When Streep, Blunt, and Tucci are together, the scene crackles with energy. When none of them are present, The Devil Wears Prada slips into a black hole'. In other, I agree with the nomination the movie received for the costume design, which was really good. Otherwise, this was a mediocre film.