Annie Reviews

To be honest, since I didn’t care much for John Huston’s version and since this movie turned out to be a critical flop, I didn’t expect much from the damned thing but since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, I always thought it was actually a rather boring story and this modern version, except for giving some Hip-Hop versions of the famous songs and casting a black kid to play the lead, didn’t really improve the formula. At least, I have to admit that their version of ‘It’s A Hard-Knock Life’ was pretty cool but all the other songs were rather weak. On the other hand, I won’t blame the lovely and talented Quvenzhané Wallis who was actually pretty good. In fact, Willow Smith, Will Smith’s daughter who was the producer on this movie, was supposed to play the lead but after the movie lingered in development, she became too old to play this part but the whole thing would have been probably worse with her. Another problem was Cameron Diaz. I mean, sure, I understand that she wanted to play the bad guy for once but she was pretty weak,I'm afraid. Anyway, to conclude, even if I have seen worse, I thought it was rather underwhelming and I don’t think it is really worth a look.