The Bottom Line
Pros
- A cheerful, upbeat film that mostly provides pleasant diversion
- Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci are fun to watch in supporting roles
- Actors, locations, sets and costumes are easy on the eyes
Cons
- Storytelling has a TV-ish sensibility
- Heavy-handed use of music hammers home what audience is supposed to be feeling
- Movie is about 15 minutes too long and the tidying up at the end gets tedious
Description
- DVD containing film The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
- Movie stars Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci
- DVD provides feature-length audio commentary by 6 behind-the-camera people, including director
- DVD contains 5 featurettes with total running time of 33 minutes
- DVD has 15 deleted scenes (total running time = 22 min.) with optional director commentary
- DVD contains 5-minute gag reel
- MPAA rating: PG-13 for some sensuality
- Feature film run time: 1 hour 49 minutes
- DVD release date: December 12, 2006
Guide Review - The Devil Wears Prada DVD
The Devil Wears Prada is a mostly entertaining movie that evokes very little emotional involvement on the part of the viewer. The best thing about it is that, in a supporting role, Meryl Streep creates an unforgettable character as the boss from hell. Stanley Tucci contributes a fine supporting performance as well, and the film's good-looking actors, locations, sets and costumes are easy on the eyes. However, the movie's central coming-of-age story is told clunkily with a TV-ish sensibility.
The main character is Andrea ("Andy") Sachs (Anne Hathaway), a young Midwesterner who comes to the Big Apple to seek a career in journalism. She takes a job as an assistant to Miranda Priestly (Streep), the tyrannical editor-in-chief of a Vogue-like fashion magazine. Also working there as second-in-command is Nigel (Tucci), who helps transform Andy into a stylish dresser. Andy's job is vexatious, but it's sometimes glamorous.
The DVD contains five featurettes with a total run time of 33 minutes. One of these discusses adapting Lauren Weisenberg's best-selling novel, another is about the film's costume designer Patricia Field and a third is about getting couturier Valentino involved in the movie. Also on the DVD are 22 minutes of deleted scenes with optional director commentary and a five-minute gag reel. In addition, there is a feature-length audio commentary that is a free-for-all of six voices: director, producer, costume designer, screenwriter, editor and cinematographer. But the DVD is worth renting for the entertainment value of the feature film alone.
