The movie starts pretty predictable with showing the 2 main characters, 2 neighbours and high school rivals: Nell (Samaire Armstrong), a virgin, geek and future to be Yale student, more interested in Shakespeare than anything resembling a social activity, and Woody (Kevin Zegers), the football quarterback, dating the cheerleader, who’s idea of poetry is Eminem or 50 Cent.

Almost everything goes OK for the two, he’s trying to make her life miserable with all kinds of pranks, while she’s keeping away from this unworthy persona. We meet Sharon Osbourne as Woody’s mother, doing what she does best: cussing 3 times in a sentence. Anyway, it’s a refreshing character, especially since she does have her wicked charm. I assume she is behind plugging Ozzy’s tune “Goodbye to Romance” in the soundtrack too, a good choice in the end since it’s a widely used prom song.

And just when you’re nicely set into the plot, as boring as it might look at the beginning, something changes the game.

The 2 teenagers are taken to the museum, where they fight in front of an Incan God statue. And wake up the next day each being the other one. This is when the movie really starts looking good. There’s a lot of “drama” in their life, she’s now in his superb body, with an idiot as girlfriend and total lack of football talent, while he’s “wearing” her body, showing a stupid manly Nell who’s got zero chances to even graduate, lest go to Yale.

After trying to sabotage each others, the 2 come to the conclusion peace is better and try to secure their futures, by training in football, respectively learn about literature.

With all the references to sex, the movie is VERY clean still, so absolutely safe for any teen-age viewers. It’s a cute comedy that delivers more than initially expected.

And still Meryl was in the movie, so I had to see it.

The movie starts very relaxing. I did have a good feeling about it from second 1. The music was entertaining (not a fan of pop, but the songs were WELL CHOSEN), the scenes pretty entertaining. It started as a nice beautiful movie and it stayed the same.

We have Anne Hathaway playing the role of a young graduate from “the country” who’s trying to start a journalism career in New York. Has no interest in anything fashion related and dresses even worse than I do. Her BF is training as a chef while she’s trying desperately to find some sort of a job.

And she finds it.

One of the most important magazines in fashion is called Runway (doh, pretty inspiring) and is run by the “nazi” like editor in chief Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep). As you can imagine our young talent gets her “behind” handed to her in some epic verbal fights with Miranda, who’s amazingly polite and decent and kills with her eyes and words at the same time.

I don’t recall seeing Meryl Streep look so sexy in her entire career. They “aged” her (she’s having grey hair), but she’s looking absolutely stunning. I kinda see another Cruella DeVil in her, except she’s not obsessed with fur and has a better mental state than the character Glenn Close brings to life.

Everyone is afraid of her and she’s getting the “pet-name” of dragon lady. As you can guess she’s the villain in the movie and the lifestyle she has is “bad”. The little journalist has to sacrifice her relation and beliefs to work for Runway and can’t wait to escape the “terror”. This is where I stop understanding where they’re going with the plot. Let’s focus …

She’s a young casual dressed woman. Of course she has to start caring about fashion and dress better than you’d dress to walk your dogs. Tough. I have “corporate” friends who hate elegant outfits just as I do, but wear suits. Because you can’t go to the bank in your every-day clothes. So, I fail to understand her drama. You’re working for a fashion magazine, you dress like it.

Then we have the career problem. Her BF is mad she’s missing his birthday (imagine the importance of such galactic event). Again, tough. My sister in law is a doctor. I can’t count the birthdays, Christmas dinners, Easter dinners etc. her family spent without her. Did her husband divorce? Not as far as I can recall it. My BF worked all day long as a civil engineer. Even worked in another part of the country or another country altogether. Did I leave him? Nope.

So, careers sometimes do require a sacrifice. So, his entire attitude kinda .. blows, if you allow me.

And let’s see this “dragon lady” Miranda Priestly, who’s so feared and evil. She is running a HUGE business. She is the one setting the tone in fashion (designers don’t show their creations publicly till she’s giving the OK). There’s millions of dollars at stake, hundreds (if not more) employees a huge brand to be kept successful. She cannot succeed if she’s lazy or “cute”. You cannot be an amazingly successful business woman and be a “doll”.

Andrea “Andy” Sachs on the other hand needs to grow up in my opinion. You get a difficult, but with great potential job. Amazingly, once you stop whining, you can even get better at it. No, forgive me, GOOD. So good, you’re now in the “first league” together with your boss. And you still fall on your back amazed to see how much drama is between coleagues and how people stab each others in the back. Well, flash-news: it happens EVERYWHERE.

The end for me at least is weird. I cannot understand why would we like to think about such a career in a bad way. It’s a lot of hard work, but you are there, in the top. Instead of going along and working at the Runway, once she’s Miranda’s right hand, she chooses to work as a “journalist” at a newspaper or something. I’ve worked in the media for 10 years, there’s nothing fancy about this. Or maybe it’s in the USA and I am not getting it.

Overall the movie was EXCELLENT. It was very dynamic, I can’t remember a moment of dull action, the situations were comic and every time I watched again (have seen it for 8 times I think) I was able to discover something new about it. I do recommend it with all my heart, since it’s been a well spent hour and a half. You will laugh, see some “cool” images and of course meet an amazingly looking Meryl Streep, doing an amazing role.