The Devil Wears Prada

I'll admit I was a bit hesitant in seeing this movie. I read the book, and the book was hilarious. What could've been a really depressing book was a sarcastic, witty, humorous slant on life in a job that "pays the rent."

I was skeptical about such wit and humour being duplicated on the big screen, but screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna is able to get most of it. And the casting is supurb! Meryl Streep does an excellent job portraying the cynical, ruthless, control-freak Miranda Priestly. Her delivery is curt, business-like and very much like how I envisioned the character in the book. Anne Hathway as Andy Sachs is just as good, playing the naive-to-wise 20-something making her way to the Big Apple.

Emily Blunt and Stanly Tuccie both give excellent performances. Stanly Tucci, who plays Nigel, strikes that perfect balance between Miranda's confidant and Andy's mentor, placating one while encouraging the other.

Though there are some very memorable scenes in the novel that were left out of the movie, like driving stick-shift in Manhattan rush hour traffic in stilettos, while not knowing how to drive stick-shift, the movie still did an excellent job capturing other telling scenes.

The jokes didn't fall flat. The audience was laughing for the majority of the movie and there wasn't that sense of contriteness that was in the movie version of The Da Vinci Code.

For an up-beat, funny, hey-my-job-isn't-so-bad and it's not the end of the world type movie, The Devil Wears Prada is worth seeing.

Rating: G-$_G-$_G-$_G