Save your money for something good and enjoyable

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Seriously it's just bad. How bad you may ask? To paraphrase a quote from Will & Grace, "Mariah-Carey-in-Glitter" bad.This movie is just so awful there is literally nothing good about it. Jamie Foxx's Will Stacks is so unlikeable you find yourself wishing he did get hit and killed by the truck at the beginning. Rose Byrne is grossly underutilised and given horribly vapid dialogue that even she can't make work. Cameron Diaz's performance as an abusive, drunk foster mum began ok and then she opened her mouth to sing and my ears started to bleed. As for newcomer Quvenzhane Wallis (P.S. Your parents should be shot for giving you that first name) seems to have been picked only because she's African American with a fro and a gap between her two front teeth. There really is no acting, singing or dancing talent here. The dialogue is pedestrian and for some reason everyone is speaking at 3x the normal speech rate so it's ridiculously hard to keep up with what's happening. And this is probably the biggest problem with this movie. It's moving so fast there's no time for character development or an emotions whatsoever. AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE.

I loved the original movie, so was a bit skeptical about seeing this one, especially as it had some negative reviews when it first came out in the cinemas.The movie was similar to the original, but modernised. Gone are the mansion, maids, down-trodden streets of New York, the dark lighting, the all-white cast… in it's place, we know what Will Stacks (the modernised version of Daddy Warbucks) does for a living, a girl who can look after herself and is looking for her identity (maybe that was also in the original, but I can't exactly remember), and a multi-racial cast. Halleluiah!I remember an episode of Boston Legal where a girl was auditioning for a stage production of Annie, but the producers denied her because she wasn't the typical, stereotype, racial white. Who cares?! This movie proves that Annie can be whatever nationality she wants to be, and it's great!What made the original movie great was Carol Burnette's Hannigan, who was a nasty piece of work who only cared about herself and really put those poor girls to work – I really felt sorry for those poor foster children! While Cameron Diaz doesn't have quite the same punch as Burnette, she pulled this role off in her own right, over the top as it was.The music was great, and I didn't notice, until I read some reviews that some of it was original pieces, which was great and spruced up the movie a lot more!Would I see it again? Sure.

This is a very good film. If someone is looking for a nice family film that the kids can watch with their parents, this is it. It has good story, it is funny, there is singing and there is no sex scene. There was only one kissing scene and it was light kissing. I really appreciate that. I am usually with the remote control , ready to change the scene when watching films with the kids. That was not necessary with this film.The scripts, acting, directing and producing of the film was good. Too bad some people decide to give it a low rating. If I was looking only at the rating to choose a film, I would not have seen this. It was good that I read the story and decided to go for it.

Quvenzhané Wallis stars in the lead role in this modern retelling of the stage musical and 1982 musical film entitled Annie together with Jamie Foxx,Rose Byrne,Bobby Cannavale and Cameron Diaz.Adding the 1999 Disney TV movie,this happens to be the third film adaptation of the stage musical of the same title.Will Gluck directed the film and co-wrote the screenplay with Aline Brosh McKenna.The year is 2014.Annie,a young and happy foster kid,has proved that she is tough enough to make her way in the streets of New York. She knew that her parents left her as a foster kid but has always had the optimistic attitude that she is going to meet them someday.What adds to her positive attitude and optimism is having a mean foster mom in Miss Hannigan. Things begin to look bright for Annie when a campaign move made by a determined New York mayoral candidate and hard-nosed tycoon begins to take in foster kids in his home through the advise of his campaign team made up of Grace and Guy.Included among the foster kids taken is Annie.Well,no question that Quvenzhané Wallis is truly deserving of her Academy Award nomination for she was happy and enthusiastic as Annie.Her performance brought out a lot of happiness in the movie despite of the film's numerous flaws.No question that there was a lot dissatisfaction in this 2014 version due to the clichéd ridden characters and the predictability it had when it portrayed distasteful materialism. Too bad that the filmmakers did not take into consideration the time the movie was released nor the current situation that the country already has in 2014.It only changed when the time of the story took place but it remained in the situation during the time when Annie was first released during the Great Depression era back in the 1930's.Realism was definitely lacking in it.