{"id":13706,"date":"2007-09-20T05:02:16","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T09:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=13706"},"modified":"2016-01-01T20:03:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T01:03:09","slug":"the-devil-wears-prada-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/20\/the-devil-wears-prada-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Devil Wears Prada (2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cThe Devil Wears Prada\u201d is yet another film around Oscar time that was just insanely over blown for having some talent on its side, because I can\u2019t see any other reason. As a dramedy it\u2019s just the formula story of a girl who finds her self reaching stardom and abandons her roots. All the while writer Mckenna doesn\u2019t make much of a case to convince us that this relationship Hathaway\u2019s character Andy experiences is worth saving or pivotal enough to cause us to tear up at the prospect of this base tearing down. Adrien Grenier has literally nothing to do here but mope around and bitch about his girlfriend\u2019s career, while Andy is really just a dumb tart really not worth fretting over. She\u2019s a character who never quite reveals any bolder shades of complex emotions beyond superficial issues, which is probably the intent, and when she reaches down into her true roots once again, she\u2019s still just a one note sap.<\/p>\n

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I cared for none of the characters a single bit, and that\u2019s a clear understatement. Stanley Tucci\u2019s supporting character is really nothing but a clich\u00e9 that becomes a plot device, and his talents are wasted yet again, the over blown Emily Blunt provides the typical antagonist role that\u2019s really just there to give Andy a hard time and nothing more. The story and its many themes were just endless clich\u00e9s presented with an importance that was just laughable. Director Frankel just takes this source material too seriously and tries for a stern dramedy rather than taking it all with a smirk. As for Miranda, we\u2019re beaten over the head with her villainy and are constantly tugged back and forth on her character played by Meryl Streep, who ends up feeling like a toned down Cruela Deville with a soul. One moment we\u2019re told \u201cShe\u2019s just doing her job,\u201d so we should ease up on her?<\/p>\n

And yet there are other times where she\u2019s just evil for the sake of twirling her mustache and providing an antagonist for Hathaway\u2019s character. \u201cYou don\u2019t get it,\u201d says Tucci\u2019s character, \u201cHer opinion is the only one that matters.\u201d That constant back and forth is shoved down our throat, and her villain just feels like one enormous plot device that later serves as a rather pathetic overall moral for Andy to base her life off of. I don\u2019t know what strayed from the novel and what didn\u2019t, and I\u2019m not sure what liberties were taken. Honestly, I have no desire to find out. \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada\u201d is for the women that actually care about Prada, and that\u2019s all it\u2019s for. For the general viewer like me, it\u2019s just another formula mediocre dramedy. As an overall collective product, it\u2019s just a forgettable and mediocre dramedy with a story and characters I had no care for, but then I can acknowledge I\u2019m not the audience this was intended for. Sitting here as a guy who has seen one overrated dramedy too many, this is another of its kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe Devil Wears Prada\u201d is yet another film around Oscar time that was just insanely over blown for having some talent on its side, because I can\u2019t see any other reason. As a dramedy it\u2019s just the formula story of a girl who finds her self reaching stardom and abandons her roots. All the while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,219,249,302,655,874],"class_list":["post-13706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-adaptation","tag-comedy","tag-d","tag-drama","tag-meryl-streep","tag-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18312,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13706\/revisions\/18312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}