Annie (Special Anniversary Edition)

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Summary: Everything but Widescreen!
Review: I absolutely love this movie, no doubt about it. and the the update from Aileen Quinn, not approx. 30 years old was very interesting into the some of the props and even the fact that they're were two Sandys not just one. The only thing I dislike is it's Full Format you you miss alot of the off-screen action. The widescreen edition is older and is $40... not worth it for me now. Hopefully in the future they will fix this problem and offer an affordable version in Widescreen. Otherwise this is the best, watching it over and over again, you will notice alot of the background chatter is quite interesting and humuorous but you may have to put on subtitles to catch it all.

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Summary: annie forever!
Review: i saw annie in the theatre way way back when i was 5 years old and it is imprinted on my memory forever. i managed to watch a few minutes of the new disney adaptation and i ran screaming from the room. the 1982 film version of Annie is without doubt the best version that has ever or will ever be made of this story.

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Summary: NICE FAMILY MOVIE
Review: If your in a musical moode this will do. However Its a little long. This was a huge movie in 1982 in terms of cost. Rumors had the production at $60,000,000 today that would be almost over $200,000,000 in production cost alone. The movie might have been a bigger hit but that summer belong to "ET". That movie took the family audience & then "The Best Little WHorehouse in Texas" when that was released a month later took the musical auidence! For a much better version watch the Disney Version. That one is over a 1/2 hour shorter and was directed by the same man who did the movie "Chicago"

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Summary: Best version because of the great cast
Review: You cannot beat the cast in this movie. It has some of the greats, like Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters and Tim Curry. That is part of the reason why the Disney version could never compare to this one. Also, Aileen Quinn makes such a great Annie. She really looks spunky. She can look really sweet, but also tomboyish. She can look threatening, like all the times she raises her fists. The girl in the Disney "Annie" looks too sweet. She isn't as convincing when she tries to fight. If you want to watch Annie, this is the version to get.

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Summary: we've got annie!
Review: i remember seeing this film in the theatre when i was about 12 or 13. i feel in love with it!!! i see the other reviews that this version does not compare to the disney version, and more so on the play version. might i remind you that Annie was a comic strip, long before it was even though of as a play or even a movie. so i dont think that it is fair to compair this movie to the play or even to the disney version. i feel that it is simply a different version that hollywood put together. at that time when annie came out, musicals were fading fast!! the last big musical that was a box office smash before annie, was grease. but even though musicals were on the way to becomming "extinct". it was not really until evita that they started to be "revived". look at moulon rouge and chicago. the latter won a best picture oscar award among others. i feel that this movie fif a real good job on tellng the story of how annie meet daddy warbucks in a two hour or so movie. i feel they could have found a better girl to play annie, but we can't win them all. all and all she did the best that she could knowing that this is the first movie that she made. i bought this dvd movie a few months ago, and i dont think it sound really well on a good surround sound. I have done some research in recent monts to find that the new version will be cheese and scan. That is a major turn off when I am buying my DVDs. I will stick to this version, for it is, if not already out of print. Dont get this movie, this movie it very wide.

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Summary: play it the hard knock life
Review: This DVD is one of the essentials, if you like musicals. The songs are familiar, the dance numbers good, and Carol Burnett was great. My biggest beef with the DVD is that it is only available in full-screen format. You can tell that the viewing area is cut back with this format, the studio should do the right thing and release a widescreen version.

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Summary: we like it
Review: No one has really bothered to tell me what the extra features are on this disc!!!!!! In Australia we got the widescreen version with bonuses of
*isolated music score track
*original advertising galleries
*talent profiles
*picture disc
*widescreen dolby digital surround

would like to see alot more extras in future release.

PS Disney version is alot of rubbish. Kathy Bates as Miss Hannigan!!! LOL!!! Go see the play if you want the play.