An Enjoyable Comedy

Rating: 9/10 (6 December 2006)

This film was a lot of fun to watch. Meryl Streep, who plays the role of Miranda Priestly, the insatiable boss, devilishly holds the film together and makes it work. According to an article I read in the New York Times, the demanding, crazed, autocratic behavior, depicted in the film, actually occurs in the fashion industry! A number of reviewers claimed that Emily Blunt, who played Miranda's assistant, Emily, stole the show. I have to disagree with this view. She did a very creditable job of playing the self-promoting competitor to Andy Sachs, played by Anne Hathaway. But I do not think that she upstaged Anne Hathaway's character. Still other reviewers claim that Stanley Tucci, who plays the role of Nigel, stole the show, but I believe this also to be false. Anne Hathaway's character, Andy Sachs is, without a doubt, the focus of the show as intended.