Sometimes a Person Can Be Caught Up Enough To Lose Themselves In Completing A Challenge

Rating: 7/10 (23 February 2017)

I watched this movie numerous times, not because it made me laugh, but because I really began to like Andy Sachs.
It is the story of a woman (Andy Sachs played by Anne Hathaway) who accepts the challenge of working for a particularly difficult supervisor (Amanda Priestly played by Meryl Streep) in a field she (Andy) knows and cares little about. As you watch Andy, you begin to see a phenomenal super-achiever perform one impossible task after another.
At the same time, as she continues to accomplish these impossibilities, we watch as she begins to lose her morality, and her identity and becomes someone that none of her friends recognize. After it is obvious to everyone around her, it finally becomes clear to her, that she was losing herself, in one culminating scene It is a great story of the super achiever and it has a nice ending as well.
As far as comedy is concerned, as with many comedies today, this is simply not funny. The outtakes (or gag reel) are funnier than the movie itself. So for a laugh you might want to watch those.