A tad too cliché

Rating: 5/10 (26 December 2006)

Now this movie wouldn't normally be one I'd pick out of the movie rental store by myself, but my parents picked it up and I was nonetheless inclined to watch it because it looked decent enough. For all the insight (realistic and I'm guessing exaggerated) into the world of fashion that the movie offers, one can see the plot outline a mile away: Girl wants the promising job, girl gets the promising job, girl realizes she must sacrifice social ties to advance in the job, and girl ultimately decides her friends and romantic relationship are more important. Despite this one, however, substantial gripe, the movie did keep my attention and had some clever one-liners. Miranda Priestly (played by Meryl Streep) was the best character by far, and more or less carries the movie in my opinion (okay, I guess there are two gripes). Not a groundbreaking title, and certainly not one I need to see again, but there are worse ways to spend 109 minutes of your life, which, in the end, isn't saying too much.