Annie (2014)

Annie is easily one of the worst movies of the year. It's offensive, dull, poorly acted, and terribly choreographed. Quvenzhané Wallis is very cute, but almost everything going on around her is irredeemably bad. Though the old numbers are here, they're staged in an off-hand manner that lacks the excitement of John Huston's original. The filmmakers only thought about how to make it current, and not about how to make it better. Gluck, who appears to have never seen a musical film in his life, shoots dance numbers with sedate unbearable choreography, and no sense of rhythm, and edits them in a way so as all the performers are barely visible. The plot was generic and boring. The direction was very generic also, absolutely nothing new, no risks taken. Just boring filmmaking with too big a budget. In the 1982 Original Annie A.K.A. "The Good Annie" Miss Hannigan was an older woman who was cranky and unattractive, Carol Burnett nailed the part. You don't take a blond model and put her in the role. Why mess with a good thing? There's a reason it's been in Broadway for decades. Instead of this, just watch the older one and get the happiness, sadness, courage, quality of music and dance, and so on all at once. Don't waste your time on this. It's a hard-knock life for moviegoers who make the mistake of going to see this new version of Annie hoping for the same Broadway pizzazz the original demonstrated. 
Rating: 1/10 Orange Slices, no pulp. Annie