The sun will come out tomorrow

"What is this heresy, Eric is writing a positive journal?? Hersey i say!"

but in all seriousness i am writing a review of the movie since apparently critics love to attack this franchise to no end so i want to rush to this movie's defense and admit maybe this is a guilty pleasure of mine for really loving this movie or maybe its my feminine side i dont know but i loved this movie!

I admit i was not a fan of the original Annie, it was obnoxiously shoved on Every. Single. TV advertisement. Ever. I couldn't watch a single show without seeing 50 Annie advertisements and it was always that applejack cracker soup song they played and it drove me nuts as a child, i didn't even think she was that good of a singer so having to listen to her everyday was like an early version of bad pop music for me.
That doesn't mean i think the original Annie was bad, no i mean all credit to the little girl she had a lot of talent. I just personally wasn't a major fan.


The new Annie keeps very close to the original movie's beliefs with the cute little innocent girl being stuck in a horrible situation but trying to stay positive through all of it and it can be arguably said for it, life gave her a chance finding a new family and all she could ever want. The new movie takes this idea with our current society which in my mind was very funny how they pointed out how bad product placement has become in the media and how much they constantly make fun of musicals and our day and age. Someone could tell me all of it was lip syncing but every part of it was done beautifully in my mind. The coreography was wonderfully well done, i feel like when casting the singers for this movie they did actually try pretty hard (i can leave Cameron Diaz as debatable) and frankly i believe this movie is proof that just because a famous actor or actress has some legendary name, it does not automatically equal instant success. Most of the actors and actresses in this movie weren't hugely well known (with the exception of Cameron and Foxx) and yet i feel like they put all their effort into this film so for me it was a very nice change of pace to see a musical i actually really could enjoy in god knows how long

The movie is definitly a family movie yet even for me a person who has issues handling children, i found myself deeply moved by this movie with how sweet, innocent, cute and determined all the kids are in this film and never once did i find them annoying or irritating even when they 'supposedly' tried to be a bit annoying.
I admit Cameron Diaz's role is a huge hit and miss. If i had one complaint about this film, she is very annoying in the first half of the film as she's supposedly playing a Paris Hilton or a Miley Cyrus or something but in the second half of the movie she does sort of become at least a recognizable character so i couldn't get too mad at her

For some reason which just blows my mind, Agent Angel Bautista from Dexter is in this movie which i found just hilarious. I was half expecting Dexter himself to randomly appear in the movie but either way Bautista yet again did an outstanding job and deserves a lot more attention than hes getting

Anyways whether this is a guilty pleasure of mine or not, I LOVED this movie and would highly recommend it. Don't listen to the critics, while i wouldn't consider this one of the best movies of 2014 this was in my mind the best musical movie i had seen since Les Miserables in 2010


FINAL NOTE: the girls in this movie reenact the Dwarves song: "Thats what bilbo baggins hates" in the Hobbit. That alone in my mind deserves extra points