THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2

Here's the honest trade-off. This sequel gives you the one thing the first film promised: fashion. Every scene is a runway of beautiful, stylish clothing, and the cast — Streep, Hathaway, Blunt, Tucci, Branagh — brings real depth and glamour to characters worth watching.

What it doesn't give you is a story. There's no central plot driving things forward, and the humor and charm that made the original memorable are largely missing here. Worse, adults will need to weigh a scene of humanist commentary in front of DaVinci's Last Supper painting, where Miranda suggests Jesus was merely an imperfect, capable-of-betrayal man — even as the film paints her as the villain for saying it.

If you're an adult fan of the franchise who can enjoy beautiful clothes and strong performances without needing a satisfying plot, this is a fine watch at home. If you're choosing for the family, or looking for the wit of the original, wait — or skip it.

Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) is about to accept a journalism award when she learns she's been fired. Her impromptu speech about journalists losing jobs to AI goes viral — and catches the eye of the owner of Runway magazine, which is reeling from a wave of bad press aimed at its editor, Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep). He hires Andy to help save it. The only problem: Miranda hasn't forgotten who Andy used to be — or forgiven her for leaving.

Three stars means this: gorgeous to look at, thin to sit through. The performances carry real weight — Streep, Hathaway, Blunt, Tucci, and Branagh each bring depth to characters who feel lived-in, and the fashion sequences are genuinely wonderful. But the film never settles on a central storyline, and without one, the plot drifts. The wit and charm that powered the original are largely absent here, leaving a movie that looks fantastic but doesn't quite know what it's about.

This film's worldview pulls in two directions. Andy remains its moral center — empathetic, other-focused, the kind of character the story clearly wants you to root for. Miranda, by contrast, is written as unpleasant and villainous, and the film seems aware of that contrast even as it lets her speak.

That awareness matters, because Miranda is also the mouthpiece for the film's most troubling moment: a conversation in front of DaVinci's Last Supper painting where she suggests Jesus was simply an imperfect human, capable of betrayal like anyone else. The film doesn't endorse this through a sympathetic character — it puts the words in the mouth of the story's antagonist — but the idea is spoken plainly and left largely unanswered.

Scripture answers it directly. Jesus "has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet without sin" (Hebrews 4:15). He was fully human, but never merely human in the way Miranda implies — and the film's willingness to raise the question without correcting it is worth a family conversation, not a passive viewing.

This sequel gives you dazzling fashion and a strong cast, but not much story — and it raises a serious question about Jesus without answering it. Our answer stands as it started: wait for home — adults only. Looking for something the whole family can watch together instead? Start with our latest family-friendly picks.