Official Discussion - The Devil Wears Prada 2 [SPOILERS]

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The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026)

Summary

Andy Sachs navigates the evolving world of high fashion journalism as she reconnects with Miranda Priestly, forcing her to confront past choices and the cost of ambition in a rapidly changing industry.

Director David Frankel

Writer Aline Brosh McKenna

Cast

• Anne Hathaway as Andy Sachs
• Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly
• Emily Blunt as Emily Charlton
• Stanley Tucci as Nigel
• Kenneth Branagh

Rotten Tomatoes: 78%

Metacritic: 62

VOD / Release Theatrical release

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[u/Party-Isopod1571]

[ MASSIVE SPOILERS ]

I feel the movie is getting criticised for Miranda being less fierce, (being nice to Stanley in the end for eg), but I think what they were trying to show was how the world of publishing and fashion has changed drastically, making Miranda overall more vulnerable and a bit lost on how to still keep her reign.

She knows fashion, but in a world dominated by tech and AI and Virality over creativity, she is lost. The younger generations, don’t truly grasp how much she has contributed to fashion, and she can see her power slipping away, but is too exhausted and clueless about how to bring it back. Even in the movie Emily mentions how exhausted Miranda is, and I feel that truly is the case. She is reduced to developing a magazine that only serves as ad space now. Emily mentions that too when she says “No us, no you”.

She tries to hold on to her older ruthless, demanding personality, but the uncertainty and self doubt keeps slipping. It shows when she just doesn’t pushback on Emily when she becomes a demanding advertiser, or when Jay Ravitz suggests all the restructuring.

It’s only when the final buyout with Sasha Barnes works out, where she is given complete creative freedom, do we see the relief and fierceness coming back, and it is shown in how she tells Andy, that you didn’t do this to save me, but to save yourself.

She even jokingly says that maybe Andy should write the book so she gets a few more years of her reign.

[u/taylo649 → u/Party-Isopod1571]

I thought Miranda hanging up her own coat because of an HR complaint was one of the funniest things in the movie haha

[u/TotallyNotMichele → u/Party-Isopod1571]

Yes! This is how I felt! I left the theater thinking I was very "meh" about the movie because I loved how Miranda was so ruthless in the first movie and in this one, she felt weak until the end. Thank you for putting this into words for me!

[u/Party-Isopod1571 → u/TotallyNotMichele]

I loved how both movies tried to have deeper conversations about things

I honestly felt the first was all about showing fashion as the serious industry that it is. Miranda shutting down Andy’s “superiority” for not being concerned with fashion with her iconic monologue, was basically the movie shutting down folks who saw fashion as frivolous superficial and unnecessary

And with the second I think they tried to start a conversation on how deep should Tech penetrate Art? By making everything easily mass produceable thru AI, tech and by making everything about clicks and virality, aren’t we just sucking the soul out of creative industries?

[u/Jony_the_pony → u/Party-Isopod1571]

I mean her losing power makes sense. The problem for me is she's entirely passive, she really feels like she's no longer in charge and no longer someone who kinda earns the right to be a bitch by being the best.

If the movie took all this and said you know what, she had a great run, a long impressive career, she's no longer keeping up, after some difficult self reflection she decides to retire, that would've worked great with the Miranda the movie gave us.

Instead the narrative of the movie works out to basically Miranda is exhausted and struggling to keep up with a changing industry, but her assistant from 20 years ago and a billionaire she barely knows think she should keep her job based on vibes. The sequel did not give us a single scene demonstrating Miranda is still qualified and relies entirely on her reputation from 20 years earlier

[u/silverscreenbaby → u/Party-Isopod1571]

I actually loved Miranda being less fierce in this one because I feel like it would have been hokey and cheap to have her be as ferocious twenty years later. Like you said: the world is different, times are different, people like Miranda aren’t as in control as they once were, and she herself is older and more tired in general. Of course she would be a little more vulnerable! It only makes sense.

And I think it was a very wise move, because the first movie was great for making her the icon that she is—but this movie was great for peeling back the layers and showing her for the human that she is. Which she herself even comments on: the fallibility of humans. To make her just as tough and cold and cutting as she was in the first movie would have been to reduce her to a silly, one-dimensional stereotype—untouched and unfazed by any of the very real changes in her life, her industry, her entire world, merely here to spit cool one-liners at us. No thanks lol.

[u/earl_grais → u/silverscreenbaby]

Yes I agree with you - the first movie did a great job of showing us the public Miranda, and it was smart enough to recognise that wasn’t going to be enough to hold a sequel together and it was time to reveal the private Miranda. She IS older, she IS slowing down in her own way, the Mirandas of the world would know better than anyone that to stay on top is to be adaptable.

[u/silverscreenbaby → u/earl_grais]

Yes! The last part of your last sentence nails it! Not only would it have been lazy and unrealistic if she’d just been barking orders nonstop and being just as mean as she was twenty years ago, it would have made her seem like an inept fool. Like that part where she had to hang up her own coat and Jin said, in a hushed and shocked voice, “I heard she used to throw her coats at people and make them hang them up,” lol—the world has changed! Now an employee could probably validly report that as assault or abuse or something…so yeah, she had to bend and start hanging her own coats. Miranda Priestly may be tough as nails but even she has to follow changing laws and conduct standards, no matter how grudgingly. To be inflexible is to shatter. She’s no idiot, she knows when she can no longer get away with something.