I Loved It, But It's Deeply Flawed

Rating: 7/10 (4 March 2008)

There's not much to say that hasn't already been said. The acting, especially Meryl Streep's, is superb. The fashions are wonderful and the story is interesting, especially to one who is the ultimate non-fashionista.
I had a number of problems with the film, not the least of which was the over-use of montage with very loud 'musical' accompaniment. Once or twice would have been fine, but every time Anne Hathaway changes clothes we get a sequence of her walking down the street, or down the hall to a soundtrack that has been turned up to unbearable and that is made up of really gawdawful music. The score, in general, sucks.
**Spoiler** I didn't like the ending. It made no sense and the movie should have ended when Anne Hathaway threw her PDA into the fountain in Paris. The rest was an incoherent waste of time. She makes up with her boyfriend (after schtupping another man in a one night stand in Paris); the boyfriend announces that he's got a job in Boston and they make plans together to go to Boston; then she has an interview with a local New York publication and is hired there, indicating that she will be staying in New York. Huh?? All of a sudden we're in a different movie. That's bad writing and bad film making, and it cost the film two stars in my rating.
Flawed as it is, the film is most definitely worth a look for the acting. Just keep the volume control on your remote under your thumb.