Devil Wears Prada 2 is #1 in Korea. The methodology explains why the franchise still works.

The TVI rubric scored the 2006 original at 129/200, which lands in Competent tier, solid craft, moderate intellectual demand, worth watching but not a brain-stretcher. That score profile is not an accident, and it is not a criticism. It's exactly the score a perfectly-executed star vehicle should earn.

Read the dimensions individually: Cognitive Stimulation 31/50, the film does not demand much inference. Educational Value 28/50, some workplace texture, but the rubric isn't going to claim you'd learn the industry from this film. Craft & Quality 40/50, and here the score jumps. The execution is far stronger than the underlying material.

That 40/50 on Craft is what audiences come back for. Twenty years later. Across continents.

The Variety story reports a second-weekend #1 in Korea, late opening, competitive window, sustained audience demand. This is the audience-behavior signal a franchise built primarily on Craft & Quality should produce.

Viewers do not return for a Cognitive Stimulation experience; they return for a Meryl Streep experience, an Anne Hathaway experience, the production-design competence the rubric registered nineteen years ago.

The sequel itself is not yet in the TVI database. The methodology requires credentialed viewing before a public score is published, provisional scores are not surfaced.

See it ranked among the comparable craft-driven star vehicles, or the competent-tier shows worth your time.

The methodology page explains how the rubric is constructed and weighted. The /iq-score/ hub explains what an IQ Score is.