The Devil Wears Prada

What girl doesn't love a good makeover movie? We've seen so many of theses films that we’ve memorized the formula:

1. Take a smart but plain girl and throw her into a glamorous world she doesn't fit into.
2. Let her struggle and fail for a while, then give her a fabulous makeover! Yeah!
3. The new clothes and hair change everything! Formerly-plain-girl is fitting-in. Hurrah!
4. But alas, Formerly-plain-girl has lost her values. Her old friends scorn her for turning into a bitchy popular girl. Oh! NO!
5. Formerly-plain-girl has a change of heart, realizes she's made a mistake, (throws her mobile phone into the fountain) and goes back to her plain-girl ways! Phewf! A happy ending!

The Devil Wears Prada certainly delivers all parts of this equation.

The heroine is Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway), a frumpy young recent Northwestern graduate who goes to New York and gets an unlikely job as the second assistant to Miranda Priestly (Streep), the editor of a Vogue-like magazine that's the fashion-industry bible. Miranda is the boss from hell, and Andy has serious journalistic ambitions and absolutely no interest in fashion. But, even though everyone on the magazine treats her like a pariah and wants her to quit her impossible job, she decides to stick it out. Gradually, she rises to the challenge and the movie becomes both a Cinderella story, as Andy is transformed into a fashion-plate and workhorse; and a morality tale, in which she must decide between her "good" values and the "bad" values of workaholic corporate America.

Sounds great, right?
Well, the storyline, simple at first, become unnecessarily convoluted. The obligatory love-triangle seems a little forced and I couldn't help but notice that in some pivotal points of the dialogue, Andy's mouth doesn't always move when she speaks. Makes me wonder if they had to change the story during the editing...

Well, at least the clothes are fabulous, right?
In parts, yes. Meryl Streep could not have looked better. If I ever become a publishing super-bitch, that's EXACTLY what I want to look like.