The Devil Wears Prada 2 Is a Razor-Sharp Successor to the Original but Some Big Changes to Legacy Characters Might Frustrate Longtime Fans

There’s a scene about halfway through The Devil Wears Prada 2 where we see Miranda Priestly – the ruthless, commanding, and visionary Editor-in-Chief of Runway magazine; unapologetic badass and chief antagonist of the first movie – flying coach. The humiliating circumstance is played for laughs but also serves as an emblem for the movie as a whole. Here is an iconic, cunning individual, inordinately famous in both her own world and ours, reduced to a middle seat between her assistant and a man eating a gigantic sandwich. This bit of relatable humor is hilarious in the moment and also representative of the experience of watching The Devil Wears Prada 2: it may not be exactly what we were expecting, but it’s definitely going to get Miranda, and the rest of us, where we wanted to go. When we last saw Miranda (Meryl Streep) all the way back in 2006, she was at the height of her powers: supremely in control of her publishing fief and the key voice in the world of high fashion. Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway), her erstwhile assistant and aspiring “real journalist,” had enough of Miranda’s abuse – throwing her ringing cell phone into a fountain in Paris and never looking back. But my, how the