This film’s story is entirely too aggravating to make for good entertainment. From the beginning of the film, Anne Hathaway’s Andy Sachs makes it perfectly clear that she is unhappy with the position she is in regarding her career (assistant to Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly). What is utterly frustrating about the film is the fact that it essentially glorifies changing your appearance and your morals as well as sacrificing every relationship you’ve made over the course of your life as it regularly shows characters doing this and somehow managing to succeed (or at least remain optimistic that things will fall in their favor in the future--i.e. Stanley Tucci’s Nigel). Throughout the course of the film the audience sees Sachs change from the caring girlfriend who wants nothing more in the world than to become an editor to the sneaky, ruthless person that somehow is considered better and more successful by her coworkers (however, not by anyone with a brain). She sells out her coworkers, she ignores loved ones and she risks her well-being to impress a woman who she makes clear she does not like. What makes the story even worse is (like I’ve previously mentioned) the fact that after going through all of this, Sachs still manages to get everything she wants in life. With everything that I disliked about the story, I was actually impressed with the acting. Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci do a fantastic job of portraying their truly horrible characters in this film. The one character that I struggled with, however, was Priestly. This character was meant to be a fierce and imposing boss that terrifies her subordinates to the point of tears. I struggled to understand how anyone would find Streep to be so terrifying and due to this, what I believe to be a, mistake on the part of casting director Ellen Lewis, I thought that the character and the story suffered greatly. I was warned, prior to watching, that I would not like this film because of the characters, so, I was not disappointed. The ruthlessly arrogant characters turned me off and the less than adequate story fully solidified my dislike for the film. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458352/?ref_=nv_sr_1
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