Annie Reviews
April 16, 2011
John Huston is the wrong director, lacking appreciation for the musical genre
Full Review
| Original Score: C+
April 16, 2007
The movie offers an insulting 'let them eat cake' gesture toward the 1982 audience, but the pacing is so ragged and the characters so lifeless that few will be able to stay awake long enough to feel offended.
April 16, 2007
Many people said John Huston was an odd choice to direct Annie and he proves them right.
June 24, 2006
The songs never take off into anything very much, the whole atmosphere (apart from the climax) is distinctly stagebound, and Huston merely reveals why he had never before in his long career been hired to make a musical.
October 19, 2004
Huston's biggest misfire; ponderous and sluggish.
Original Score: 1/5
August 8, 2004
[O]verly long, uninspired, and frequently awful...
January 13, 2004
Original Score: 2/5
November 25, 2003
Most of the movie featured doe-eyed, orphaned girls either getting abused by a boozehound or doing manual labor
Full Review
| Original Score: 3/5
August 22, 2003
Original Score: 2/5
May 24, 2003
However was this singularly tuneless show a hit in the first place?
December 18, 2002
Original Score: 2/5
July 30, 2002
There's bad and then there's bad and then there's Annie
Original Score: 0/5