The Devil Wears Prada 2: Streaming Review

I went into this one bracing for a nostalgia cash-grab, the kind of legacy sequel that just recreates the original beat for beat and calls it a reunion. Twenty years is a long gap, and I've been burned by enough of these to be wary. What I actually got was smarter than that, and now that it's streaming, I think it's genuinely worth your evening.

The smartest choice the film makes

Rather than putting Miranda back in the exact same power seat and making Andy climb the same ladder again, the sequel ages the actual conflict along with its audience. Miranda isn't the untouchable force she was in 2006, she's watching print media collapse underneath her, and Andy comes back not as a wide-eyed assistant but as a respected journalist whose entire newsroom just got laid off by text during an awards gala, which is a genuinely bleak, of-the-moment way to open a story about media collapse. Watching Streep play Miranda actually confronting her own fading relevance, rather than remaining untouchably powerful throughout, gave her more to do than I expected from a character this iconic returning after two decades.

That elevator moment everyone's talking about

You've probably already seen the clip: Andy holds the elevator, Miranda steps in, looks at her, and says, "Took you long enough." It's a tiny moment, four words, and it's doing an enormous amount of work, calling back twenty years of history between these two characters without a single flashback or exposition dump. I'll admit it got me a little emotional watching it in context, which is exactly what a good legacy sequel should manage to pull off.

Where the new cast fits, and where it doesn't quite

Kenneth Branagh, Lucy Liu, and Justin Theroux all slot into the new media landscape well enough, but I found myself impatient during some of their scenes specifically because I wanted more Streep and Hathaway, more Emily Blunt's Emily now running her own luxury-brand empire and going head-to-head with her old boss for the same shrinking ad dollars. That rivalry between Emily and Miranda is genuinely the strongest new element the sequel adds, and I wish the film had leaned into it even harder rather than splitting focus across so many new characters.

What longtime fans specifically will enjoy

The chemistry between Hathaway and Streep hasn't dulled at all, if anything it's more comfortable now, which suits characters who've genuinely earned a kind of mutual respect over the years even if neither would admit it easily. If you're hoping for a Nate cameo, know now it doesn't happen, Adrian Grenier was considered but the timing didn't work out, though he's said he'd be open to a spin-off down the line, which honestly, given how little that character was missed, feels like the right call.

Is it actually as good as the original?

No, and I don't think it's trying to be. The original was lightning in a bottle, a specific cultural moment about work culture and ambition that can't really be recreated. What this sequel does instead, successfully, is ask what happens to that same ambition twenty years later, when the industry itself is dying underneath you, and that's a genuinely more interesting question than just repeating the first film's arc.

Frequently asked questions

Is The Devil Wears Prada 2 based on a book? Yes, it draws from Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns by Lauren Weisberger.

How much did The Devil Wears Prada 2 make at the box office? $666.1 million worldwide against a $100 million budget.

Where can I stream The Devil Wears Prada 2? It's now available on both Disney+ and Hulu.

Does the original cast return for the sequel? Yes, Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci all reprise their original roles.

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