Interesteg What makes it different from others?

SpecialsTarget Disturbing yet enthralling

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Dr. Farrukh Malik It has 5.5 IMDB rating. If IMDB rating is your major turn on, you better avoid it. However, if you want to watch a light movie that bounds you for fun, you should hit it. It didn't disappoint me. In fact, I enjoyed me evening through midnight.

Paul Magne Haakonsen Believing this to be a comedy, I sat down to watch it, only to find out that the movie was more of a romantic drama, than it was a comedy. So was that a bad thing? No, because "From Prada to Nada" turned out to be a rather nice cultural movie of sorts.The story is about two sisters who live in luxury in Beverly Hills, when their father drops dead on his 55th birthday. Finding out that their father was a risk-taker and is in serious debt, the sisters Nora (played by Camilla Belle) and Mary (played by Alexa Vega) have to pack up their things and move to East Los Angeles to live with their Mexican family. This is somewhat of a change of lifestyle and a whole new world for the rich man's daughters.I will say that "From Prada to Nada" turned out to be more than just a 'riches to rags' story. It deals with finding yourself even when odds are stacked against you, and finding your heritage even after having deluded yourself otherwise. And, of course, it is a story of family bonds and of finding love.There were aspects and parts of the movie that were venturing down the 'chick flick' lane, while other parts of the movie were so predictable that you saw it coming a mile away. But still, "From Prada to Nada" turned out to be an enjoyable and somewhat beautiful movie.The people cast for the various roles were doing good jobs, and especially Camilla Belle and Alexa Vega carried the movie quite well. And it was nice to see Wilmer Valderrama in this movie as well.If you enjoy a moving with a loving story and a story that is close to life and realistic, then you should give "From Prada to Nada" a watch, because it is well worth it.

annevejb I note some comments mentioning this as an adaptation of a Jane Austin. For me that author is way to heavy, but there are light adaptations that make for stories that I can accept as okay fun.If it is an adaptation, it is not a heavy, difficult to get through, sort of story. I find this to be a story to enjoy.If I had to look for a message I would likely get it wrong, but the title, Sense And Sensibility, does remind me of how impossible good sense is these days, of how sense and sensibility are central factors re how to face reality, yet somehow impossible at the same time. If I go no further than that in deep meaning I also note that this is a happy ending story. Reality not appearing to be so well geared to happy endings, see opera as stories re that, I do prefer my fiction to be an escape from that aspect of reality and From Prada To Nada says it all while having a happy ending.I find the background music to be a really fun part of the 'get away from it all' aspect. The first time that I tried to identify the Latin American type songs in a feature, it was something like Mary Kate and Ashley's television competition story, I did not get very far. This East L.A. story is plastered with such music and it is nice and fitting to the story and oh so easy to identify.Soon after I started watching my Blu-ray of this I purchased a DVD of Walkout (2006), a story about a historic aspect of East L.A., an actress called Alexa Vega in the lead. That has more difficult to identify music, including a couple of songs that were around East L.A. during 1968. But the main song is Om Hraum Mitraya by Deva Premal, which I had thought to be eastern Buddhist but is identified in a DVD commentary as Aztec, a more recent interpretation but still extremely fitting. It is used at the start and at the end, the ending it goes on for around ten minutes. Really right.

IvanaMilicevic This movie is completely the same as Material Girls with Hilary and Haylie Duff. There are two rich, spoiled sisters who lost their fortune and they have to manage on their own. The title is lovely and I can see that many people link it with The Devil Wears Prada, but it has nothing to do with it. I was surprised when I saw Wilmer Valderrama. He's so hot in this movie and I was like -Is that Fez from 70's Show? What a transformation! I like Mexican culture, houses, costumes and everything. However, I think I wasted my time watching this movie. When I saw Prada in title I thought that it's something about fashion, but it isn't. I recommend it to everybody who loves romantic, teenage comedies.