Film Review - The Devil Wears Prada II (2026)

The Devil Wears Prada II continues on from 2006’s The Devil Wears Prada and this time Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) returns to Runway magazine to become its features editor after being fired from her journalist job but returning to Runway also means dealing with Miranda Priestley (Meryl Streep) and Nigel (Stanley Tucci)

The Devil Wears Prada II is an enjoyable sequel by and large but I preferred the first film mainly because that film knew what film it wanted to be whereas this sequel film doesn’t at times, Anne Hathaway’s Andy Sachs is easily my favourite part of this film and she plays the role like she never left it and she radiates this warmth and humour and ease of persona in a way that feels effortless and using her to commentate on the changes in Journalism in the 20 years between these 2 films was a very smart move.

And that storyline about the decline of print journalism (hell proper forensic journalism as a whole) in the last 20 years was my other favourite part of this sequel and watching those moments made me think of all my old journalist friends from Twitter and real life and on a couple of occasions I did find myself wishing that some of them were either sitting next to me or were still on my social media feeds so I could ask them about and/or talk to them about it afterwards.

Plus Stanley Tucci is a delight in this movie as he feels like that warm hearted father figure who hasn’t lost his fashion sense or his timing for a biting remark but then again it is Caesar Flickerman after all and I also quite liked Simone Ashley as Amari (Miranda’s suffering assistant) and I hope I get to see more of her in movies.

As for the rest of the film its okay but nothing you really got better from the first film, yes the fashions are good and the fashion shows are glamorous to watch but those were in the first film and I thought they worked better there plus this movie doesn’t really know what to do with Miranda Priestley that at times I did find myself wondering if it might have been better if she was written out entirely of this movie because on the one hand the movie wants Miranda to be her bitchy horrible boss self but on the other hand you can’t really do that Horrible Boss character much anymore.

But one character that really gets the short shrift and that is Emily Blunt who was so memorable in the first film that when I watched her in that film I thought to myself that not only was she going to go on to big things (which she has) but also she felt like she belonged on a great BBC Comedy series but this time she’s in so little of the film I find myself wondering why did they bother bringing her back as it feels like a waste of her great talents.

And so that was the Devil Wears Prada II which is a good sequel but the first film was better, 2 and a half out of 5.