2K Replay: THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA

 by Adam Riske

Nominated for “Best Villain” (Meryl Streep) at the MTV Movie Awards. She lost to Jack Nicholson in The Departed.

• Best Scene/Moment: I like all the scenes when Anne Hathaway is running errands. I know it’s a weird choice, but she gives good frazzled and it’s cinematic to me.

• Best Song: “City of Blinding Lights” by U2. Honorable Mention: “Seven Days in Sunny June” by Jamiroquai.

• Best Merch: A “The Devil Wears Prada - Anne Hathaway Original Japanese Mini Poster…” for $21.00. I like that this poster makes Meryl Streep look less like “the devil” and more like “Hold my sunglasses, Errands Girl” and Anne Hathaway is like “One more Jenga piece, I hope I don’t fall over!”

 
• Director Grade: The Devil Wears Prada was directed by David Frankel.
Great Movies: N/A
Good Movies: The Devil Wears Prada
OK Movies: Marley & Me
Bad Movies: Collateral Beauty
Unseen By Me: Miami Rhapsody, The Big Year, Hope Springs, One Chance, Jerry & Marge Go Large
Overall Grade: C+

• Double It with This 2006 Movie: The Holiday

• Year 2006 Movies to Trailer Before Them: A Good Year, Last Holiday, Stranger Than Fiction

• Ella McCay or The Devil Wears Prada? The Devil Wears Prada

• Mall Movie? No. This movie’s fancy so it would play at the fancy theater in town for a while and then move to the mall towards the end of its run as if they were clothes on clearance.

• Only in 2006: A sequence centered around tracking down the manuscript for the unreleased next Harry Potter book.

• Scene Stealer (tie): Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci.

• I Miss: Ritzy New York movies.

• I Don’t Miss: The threat of rising movie star Adrian Grenier.

• 2006 Crush: Anne Hathaway.

• 2026 Crush: Anne Hathaway.

• What I Thought in 2006: I watched The Devil Wears Prada mostly due to a five-alarm Hathacrush I had in the 2000s and ended up really liking the movie (which is high-energy and very entertaining). This was also where I turned the corner on Meryl Streep because before I was young and like “We get it…you’re Meryl Streep…calm down” and afterwards I was like “I get it. You’re Meryl Streep. I was the one who needed to calm down.”

• What I Think in 2026: It’s still fun and a nostalgic example of a mainstream movie professionally done and delivering everything it should and a little bit more. I’m looking forward to the sequel.