Mood:  cheeky

This movie was quite a bit of fun. I was not sure it would be when we entered the theater but I was glad to see that it was. It stars Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. Anne's character Andy has recently moved to New York to pursue her career as a journalist. She finds it difficult and signs up with a temp agency that sends her to a fashion magazine called Runway to be the 2nd office assistant to Miranda Priestly. Miranda is an institution in the place and a holy terror to everyone, when she comes to work everyone busily scurries off to miss her rath. Including passerbys in the lobby. She can dash dreams with a glance or a pursing of her lips. Andy is not the fashionable young lady that roams the halls and everyone makes rude comments about her hideous outfit. Somehow even with her grandmother styled skirt she gets the job. Much to the annoyance of Miranda's 1st assistant Emily. Emily has no kind words for emily, not that anyone there does. Miranda decides, after a verbal dress down to end all verbal dress downs from Miranda, to step it up a notch even though she does not fit the fashionable mode. The job could open plenty of doors in the journalistic world if she could survive just one year of it. Andy decides she needs to act the part to make it and enlists Nigel (Stanley Tucci), the nicest person to her although he still launched verbal barbs, to help with her wardrobe and an hour later there is a very noticeable change. Soon she is a transformed girl, a hard working and very fast moving fashion diva. Much to the distress of her boyfriend and other friends. At a very critical moment Andy steps up and catches the positive eye of Miranda. Miranda soon chooses her to go on a coveted Paris trip over Emily, Miranda's 1st assistant, who was scheduled to go and had been surviving Miranda with that as a saving grace. Andy is given the choice to go and betray Emily who just accepted her or to refuse and watch all doors in the journalistic world closed to her. She decides to go to Paris. Along the way Andy becomes a different person and finds herself going to Paris without friends and without her boyfriend behind her. She soon realizes that she does not like this world of back stabbing and cattiness but is she to far gone?

The movie is very well done and very well acted. I absolutely loved watching Anne Hathaway. Some people would say they loved the outfits but I love Anne. This was a very fun movie and I found myself laughing heartily at the jokes and enjoying each scene. And it has Anne:

This was one of those movies that you can take your mom and auntie too...