History YMMV / Annie2014

** It's materialistic. Hannigan wanted a rich life she thinks she was cheated out of; she wallows in nostalgia and uses foster girls as apparent sole source of income.
*** Stacks worked his way up from either poverty or lower middle class, so he earned his smart house.

** Stacks worked his way up from either poverty or lower middle class, so he earned his smart house.

** It's materialistic. Hannigan wanted a rich life she thinks she was cheated out of, and Stacks worked his way up from either poverty or lower middle class, so he earned his smart house.

** Most notoriously, [[RaceLift people were opposed to the main characters being made black]].

* WTHCastingAgency: {{Creator/Cameron Diaz}} as Miss Hannigan.

** They got rid of [[UnfortunateImplications Punjab]] the Indian servant in favor of Nash the bodyguard.
** They added the topical plot point that Annie [[spoiler: NeverLearnedToRead]].

** Most notoriously, [[UnfortunateImplications people were opposed to the main characters being made black.]]

** On the other hand, they did drop an insensitive line from "Little Girls" ''someday I'll land in the nuthouse/with all of the nuts and the squirrels'' to avoid mocking mental illness.

* CriticalDissonance: Mere days after it's been released, the sharp contrast between negative reviews and overall-positive reception from the public was already glaring. Four days after it's release, there's a 30% difference between the critic and audience numbers for the film on Rotten Tomatoes.

** It was updated from Depression era to modern day.

* TearJerker: Several moments in the movie are designed to be this for the audience. "Maybe", wherein the foster girls sing of what they dream their real families are like. And several of Stacks' scenes as he begins to develop his bond with Annie. Then of course there are the moments when Annie is actually crying on screen.

** it was updated from Depression era to modern day

* CriticalDissonance: Mere days after it's been released, the sharp contrast between negative reviews and overall-positive reception from the public was already glaring.

** Nobody belts the songs at the top of their voice like in the 70s' version. Though this one is somewhat merited -- the singing is weak in places, and {{AutoTune}}d in others.

* {{Squick}}: This unchanged line from "I Don't Need Anything But You": ''We're tyin' a knot / they never can sever'' The expression "tying the knot" is usually a slang term for ''getting married''. It was kind of accepted in the Depression era and thereabouts that a man needed a woman to take care of him -- and if not his wife, it would have to be his daughter. In the present day context of an unmarried adult male adopting a girl child, the context gets kind of creepy. Good thing Grace turns out to also be the LoveInterest, or it would be even creepier.

* {{Squick}}: This unchanged line from "I Don't Need Anything But You": ''We're tyin' a knot / they never can sever'' The expression "tying the knot" is usually a slang term for ''getting married''. It was kind of accepted in the Depression era and thereabouts that a man needed a woman to take care of him. In the present day context of an unmarried adult male adopting a girl child, the context gets kind of creepy. Good thing Grace turns out to also be the LoveInterest, or it would be even creepier.

** Annie is brought into Stacks' life as a political ploy (even though the original used the little girl in a similar fashion -- to make Warbucks look kindhearted).

** it was updated from Depression era to modern day Annie is brought into Stacks' life as a political ploy (even though the original used the little girl in a similar fashion -- to make Warbucks look kindhearted).

** Nobody belts the songs at the top of their voice like in the 70s' version.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The majority of negative reviews the film is garnering from critics seem to be complaints about the movie having been updated from Depression era to modern day, and that Annie is brought into Stacks' life as a political ploy (even though the original used the little girl in a similar fashion -- to make Warbucks look kindhearted). The other complaint is that nobody belts the songs at the top of their voice like in the 70s' version.

* {{Squick}}: This unchanged line from "I Don't Need Anything But You"
-->''We're tyin' a knot / they never can sever''
The expression "tying the knot" is usually a slang term for ''getting married''. In the context of an unmarried adult male adopting a girl child, the context gets kind of creepy. Good thing Grace turns out to also be the LoveInterest, or it would be even creepier.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The majority of negative reviews the film is garnering from critics seem to be complaints about the movie having been updated from Depression era to modern day, and that Annie is brought into Stacks' life as a political ploy (even though the original used the little girl in a similar fashion -- to make Warbucks look kindhearted).

* * TearJerker: Several moments in the movie are designed to be this for the audience. "Maybe", wherein the foster girls sing of what they dream their real families are like. And several of Stacks' scenes as he begins to develop his bond with Annie. Then of course there are the moments when Annie is actually crying on screen.

* WTHCastingAgency: {{Creator/Cameron Diaz}} as Miss Hannigan in the 2014 version.