Nobody expected The Devil Wears Prada 2 to be this good. Twenty years after the original introduced Meryl Streep's Miranda Priestly as cinema's definitive ice-queen boss, director David Frankel returns with a sequel that earns its existence by having something genuinely new to say. Set two decades after Andy Sachs fled Paris, the film reunites the original cast — Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci — in a story about how fashion and media industries have been transformed by digital culture and the clickbait attention economy. Hathaway is revelatory as Andy, now a seasoned journalist brought back into Miranda's orbit by a corporate raider (Kenneth Branagh, deliciously villainous) threatening a hostile takeover. The sequel's cleverest move is allowing both women to have genuinely complicated positions — Miranda is not simply a villain, and Andy is not simply a hero. Their uneasy alliance provides the film a dramatic engine the original never had. Emily Blunt's rivalry-turned-partnership with Hathaway generates the film's best comedy. Lady Gaga, Donatella Versace, and Naomi Campbell appear in earned cameos. The film opened to $77 million domestically and $233 million worldwide in its first weekend and has grossed $675 million globally on a $100 million budget.
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