Let's see... in this sequel we have Annie going to London with two gal pals and her dog Sandy, to see her adopted father Daddy Warbucks being knighted by Prince Philip (Can he do that? I thought that duty was the sole preserve of the Queen).
Naturally, she gets up to all kinds of unrestrained hi-jinx along the way, mostly involving a couple of dumb Home Alone-style goons employed by a villainous Joan Collins in typically flirtatious form. She plans to blow up Buckingham Palace to become the new monarch you see, and to do that she plans to kidnap a scientist friend of Annie's to launch a missile...
Yes, I'm afraid it IS as stupid as it sounds. It's like the producers and TV schedulers (this was not a theatrical release, Que Surprise) desperately needed an Annie sequel to fill a Holiday timeslot. Instead of making a marvellous musical masterpiece to compliment the original though, they took a random harebrained screenplay off the shelf that could literally be about any group of spunky kids and dumb adults and said "this'll do".
Oh, I almost forgot... the cast DO sing a few lines from Tomorrow just before the ending credits roll. The strange thing is though, all the people joining in (apart from the actors playing Annie and Warbucks) seem to do so almost reluctantly, with little emotion or passion behind their crooning and nary a smile in sight.
Sort of how the movie was greenlit, I'd wager. 4/10.
Naturally, she gets up to all kinds of unrestrained hi-jinx along the way, mostly involving a couple of dumb Home Alone-style goons employed by a villainous Joan Collins in typically flirtatious form. She plans to blow up Buckingham Palace to become the new monarch you see, and to do that she plans to kidnap a scientist friend of Annie's to launch a missile...
Yes, I'm afraid it IS as stupid as it sounds. It's like the producers and TV schedulers (this was not a theatrical release, Que Surprise) desperately needed an Annie sequel to fill a Holiday timeslot. Instead of making a marvellous musical masterpiece to compliment the original though, they took a random harebrained screenplay off the shelf that could literally be about any group of spunky kids and dumb adults and said "this'll do".
Oh, I almost forgot... the cast DO sing a few lines from Tomorrow just before the ending credits roll. The strange thing is though, all the people joining in (apart from the actors playing Annie and Warbucks) seem to do so almost reluctantly, with little emotion or passion behind their crooning and nary a smile in sight.
Sort of how the movie was greenlit, I'd wager. 4/10.