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Annie (2014)
Little Morphin Annie
I like Annie. I've seen the musical a few times and both of the previous movie versions. This movie, in comparison, is joyless and unemotional. It's as if the producers were trying to make a live action cartoon instead of a musical. The singing was so marginal that it deflated the entire movie. Maybe they should have considered putting some singers into the cast? Each successive movie seemed to really dumb-down the storyline. This particular version made little sense. I got a kick out of Ms. Hannigan telling Annie she was being transferred to a group home. I just wondered how that would have been different? She already lived in a home with a group of foster kids. The acting was abysmal from all concerned. Again, the exaggerated facial expressions and mannerisms you see from adults when they are talking with a 2 year old was sprinkled throughout. The music was muted and auto-tuned to a point that it approached elevator music. Anyone who thought an new version with a diverse cast would take risks, will be extremely disappointed. This movie is as bland as white bread.
The Fosters (2013)
Bananas Fosters
Every person in the show, every week, has a life altering situation to deal with. Everyone is so somber. They all love each other, but there is very little joy or happiness in this family. Both parents constantly drone on about communication, yet they and everyone else in the family are always telling lies or keeping secrets (but it is always purported as to spare others feelings or as an act of complete selflessness toward someone else). In spite of all this, the children are spoiled, selfish, misguided, and care little about others. They continually make foolish decisions and basically turn situations that any normal person would just shrug off into personal catastrophes. The young boy seems to blankly stare off at the ceiling all the time and rarely has anything of substance to say. The parents, if you could seriously call them that, handle every situation in as irresponsible manner as possible. I'm sure they are supposed to represent modern, hip parents, but instead come off as total failures. And enough already with the Dance Team storyline. What educational institution would let students solely audition and pick participants for a sports team? For a show that is set up to offer an endless series of interesting stories, the writers of the Fosters have chosen to take every person, in every scene, of every episode and inject as much melodrama into it as possible. That doesn't make for compelling TV, it makes the show predictable and tiresome.