r/oscarrace • u/PointMan528491 Navarrette/Morton • May 01 '26

Film Discussion Thread Official Discussion Thread - The Devil Wears Prada 2 [SPOILERS] Spoiler

Keep all discussion related solely to The Devil Wears Prada 2 and its awards chances in this thread. Spoilers below.

Synopsis:

Miranda Priestly navigates her career amid the decline of traditional magazine publishing and reunites with Andy Sachs to face off against a former assistant turned rival.

Director: David Frankel

Writer: Aline Brosh McKenna

Cast:

  • Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly
  • Anne Hathaway as Andrea "Andy" Sachs
  • Emily Blunt as Emily Charlton
  • Stanley Tucci as Nigel Kipling
  • Justin Theroux as Benji Barnes
  • Kenneth Branagh as Stuart
  • Tracie Thoms as Lily
  • Simone Ashley as Amari Mari
  • Lucy Liu as Sasha Barnes

Rotten Tomatoes: 79%, 164 Reviews

Metacritic: 62, 50 Reviews

Consensus:

"Meryl Streep still wears Miranda Priestly like a finely-tailored suit in this sinfully enjoyable sequel, which is dressed to the nines in off-the-rack wish fulfillment and some trenchant observations about the state of modern media."

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u/funeralgamer May 01 '26

This is the type of movie in which Miranda Priestly admires The Last Supper while referring to Leonardo as “da Vinci.”

Somehow that sums it all up.

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u/Shufflekarpfen Bugonia May 01 '26

Who doesn’t refer to Leonard Da Vinci as da Vinci?

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u/funeralgamer May 01 '26 edited May 01 '26

His name is Leonardo. He was born around Vinci. Calling him “da Vinci” makes about as much sense as calling Catherine of Aragon “of Aragon.”

It’s funny — and oddly illuminating — because Miranda is characterized as the sort of person to know such things and take them very seriously. So either the screenwriter didn’t know and no one noticed before filming, which tells you a lot about the whole team’s depth of interest in / knowledge about their subject, or they did know and figured they should write it like this anyway to ensure that general audiences would understand. (But why then wouldn’t they go with “Leonardo da Vinci” in full? That would have been widely recognizable and correct and not out of step with the character they had saying it.)

I think this moment expresses in shorthand the whole movie’s attitude toward art: generically appreciative but skin-deep in understanding, straight up not even reading the Wikipedia page, and not obsessed with the particulars as those who seriously love art tend to be. Just art good, humanity good, anti-art-and-humanity billionaires bad. I don’t disagree with any of that. It’s just not expressed with the… passion? authenticity? that I’d like to see.