This isn’t a fashion movie. It’s a straight-up elegy for news media and print journalism.
It delivers a more raw, brutal, blood-on-the-floor portrait of a world where money is king (or queen).
A few blunt truths it lays out:
1. In fashion, only the luxury brands are actually making real money in retails. Everything else is struggling.
2. A tech billionaire nearly buys the fashion magazine just to make his girlfriend happy.
3. The third-generation media heir has wanted to dump the whole empire for years and finally sells it to the highest bidder — a tech mogul’s Chinese ex-wife.
When you’ve got money and budget, everything goes exactly according to the fantasy: glossy, gorgeous, irresistible.
When you don’t… you walk past first and business class on the plane and squeeze into economy with the regular slobs. Brutal.
On the music: The Dua Lipa opener “End of an Era” was a pleasant surprise. I’ll admit Lady Gaga’s two new songs (she’s 40 now) are bold, powerful, and have serious swagger. But when it comes to musical sophistication, groove, melody, and vocal quality, Madonna’s “Vogue” from 36 years ago (when she was only 32, produced by the legendary Shep Pettibone) still smokes them. No contest.
That said, remember Lady Gaga killed it as the lead in House of Gucci (2021). Madonna’s movie track record has always been… rough.
I’m still obsessed with Emily Blunt. She brings back the same ice-queen bitch energy from the first film, but this time she’s playing a flirty, cutesy sugar baby for the tech billionaire. Props — it’s not easy pulling off adorable at 43, though let’s be real, white skin really does show age faster. Lucy Liu only has two scenes and she’s 57 now, but her skin and wrinkles look about the same as Emily’s. Wild.
Anne Hathaway’s character has made a name for herself in journalism and won awards, but she’s still the same flustered, panicky mess who’s one bad day away from losing it. Thankfully, her writing is genuinely excellent.
The tech mogul character feels heavily inspired by Kara Swisher (who cameos as one of Miranda’s Hamptons guests). It reads like they pulled a lot from her semi-autobiographical Silicon Valley book — too many specific details feel like direct shots at certain people, including the upgraded physique.
Twenty years later, 76-year-old Meryl Streep is still grinding in fashion media and aiming even higher. That kind of non-founder, high-level, long-haul career is honestly hard for Chinese or East Asian folks to even imagine.
Bottom line: the three leading ladies plus one key male supporting actor twenty years on still generate massive screen presence and chemistry. It holds up against the nostalgic-yet-fresh success of Top Gun: Maverick, even with a 36-year gap between those films. Impressive.
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