The Devil Wears Prada 2: a sequel in tune with its times (review)

At a time of decline in journalism and the press, 20 years later, Miranda, Andy and Emily are back and Runway, still alive, has changed a lot…

Turquoise belts, controversy, an ever-changing society and three women fighting to keep their place. In this second part of The Devil Wears Prada, David Frankel portrays the world of the press and its decline in the age of social networks and new technologies. The world of journalism has transformed and investors are turning their backs on it. What about Miranda then? We remember the coldness of Meryl Streep, sublime as Cruella from the catwalk: pursed lips and sharp words. But it is another Miranda that we discover here, subject to the wishes of everyone, lighter, almost funny, who lets her shell fall in the face of a generation which attacks her. Faced with buyers who threaten to transform the magazine, she even goes so far as to descend into the underbelly of Runway – to the canteen with the other employees – ready to do anything to preserve the authenticity of the publication… If she gains in humor and humanity, the editor-in-chief necessarily loses a little of her charisma by moving away from her characteristic coldness. And it’s Emily Blunt’s character – Emily Charlton – the frozen face who takes over. Always so prickly, thirsty for success, Emily with her inscrutable gaze, dons the costume of the villain. Now at the head of Dior, the one who was Miranda’s first assistant, today has her under her thumb.

Andréa didn’t move an eyelash, except for her facial expressions. The somewhat awkward journalist, the “cool” girl in the office, wears an identical smile and presence, almost revealing a caricature of herself… But by remaining too faithful to the 2006 film, the character played by Anne Hathaway loses its funniness… Even her clumsiness no longer has the same charm due to repetition and delivers an overplayed version of her character. The narrative thread of this second opus unfortunately suffers the same fate. The Devil Wears Prada 2 leaves Place de la Concorde for Milan but resumes – a little too easily – its narrative framework. And this even if David Frankel no longer sticks only to the world of fashion and succeeds in a piquant portrait of modern journalism, full of artificiality and paradoxically more human.

By David Frankel. With Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt… Duration: 1h59. Released April 29, 2026