Simon Mayo

So there are some broader issues related to that, which we will discuss.

Actually, the box office top three, which is the same here as it is over there, are all big hits.

It's just measured in terms of people going to see these things.

Number one is The Devil Wears Prada 2.

Mark Woodruff.

I went to my beautiful Ardeco Cinema in downtown Los Gatos, California, and quickly noted that this is the oasis reunion of movies.

The audience were mainly like me in their 60s, looking to relive 20 years ago when everything was, you know, better.

This being America...

Mark says, I'm English.

People dressed up in stilettos and designer outfits.

And that was just the men.

And then he puts in brackets, boom tish here all week.

So he's been listening to this show for a while.

We were served up Freeman levels of fluff, one for the kids, in this forgettable cheese fest.

I can only imagine that the cast were paid obscene amounts of money to blot their copybooks with this mess.

But...

There were interesting strands which were never pursued.

The sweatshops that make the garments, the ruination of lives in the pursuit of profit, the ageism that exists in creative industries.

Like a cheap piece of clothing, these themes just fell apart.

However, because we are so invested in these characters, we went along with this self-indulgent slop with inane smiles on our faces.