History YMMV / Annie2014

* 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 its release, there's a 30% difference between the critic and audience numbers for the film on Rotten Tomatoes.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Although the movie bombed in the United States, the movie was a huge success in Japan, opening at #1 on it's first weekend, knocking ''Disney/BigHero6'' from the top spot and remained in the top 3 for a month. It's still in the top 5 and is the best-selling motion picture soundtrack on the Japanese Amazon website, not counting anime or Japanese productions.

** A lot of people complain about Sandy the dog being changed into a Shiba Inu. Sandy in the original ''ComicStrip/LittleOrphanAnnie'' comics is almost always a large, orange or reddish-brown dog with pointed ears and a white muzzle. The new dog is more true to the source than the Otterhound Sandy from [[Film/{{Annie1982}} the 80s film]].
** This isn't the first modern version of Annie--the comic had spent much of its last two decades abandoning its UnintentionalPeriodPiece trappings before it ended.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: While the RaceLift necessitated the SettingUpdate, the constant references to celebrities and memes (like "Boom goes the dynamite!") feel forced and will likely date the film in years to come.
** May well be an ''Intentional'' Period Piece. Many parallels are made between TheGreatDepression and TheNewTens, and some commentators posit that it's the other way around: that the SettingUpdate necessitated the RaceLift (an Irish orphan in the thirties would be treated with the same suspicion and scorn that a black foster child would in 2014).

* AcceptableTargets: This film's rendition of "It's the Hard-Knock Life" omits lines about flooding [[note]] "No one dries when your eyes get red and weepy / from the crying, you would think this place would sink!" [[\note]] but openly mocks mental health issues.

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

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The majority of negative reviews the film is garnering from critics seem to be complaints about:
** It was updated from Depression era to modern day, ditching any of the economic commentary that the original show included.

* WereStillRelevantDammit: While the RaceLift necessitated the SettingUpdate, the constant references to celebrities and memes (like "Boom goes the dynamite!") feel forced and will likely date the film in years to come.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Not the film itself but a meta example: Bobby Cannavale and Rose Byrne met on the set of this film and are currently dating.

** People were opposed to [[RaceLift the main characters being made black]].
** [[InvertedTrope 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.

** This isn't the first modern version of Annie. The comics had a modern reboot a few years prior.

* OlderThanTheyThink: A lot of people complain about Sandy the dog being changed into a Shiba Inu. Sandy in the original ''ComicStrip/LittleOrphanAnnie'' comics is almost always a large, orange or reddish-brown dog with pointed ears and a white muzzle. The new dog is more true to the source than the Otterhound Sandy from [[Film/{{Annie1982}} the 80s film]].

* InformedAbility: Several characters refer to Hannigan as having a beautiful singing voice. Cameron Diaz has the poorest voice in the cast.

* OlderThanTheyThink: A lot of people complain about Sandy the dog being changed into a Shiba Inu. Sandy in the original ''ComicStrip/LittleOrphanAnnie'' comics is almost always a large, orange or reddish-brown dog with pointed ears and a white muzzle. The new dog is more true to the source than the Otterhound Sandy from [[Film/{Annie1982}} the 80s film]].

* OlderThanTheyThink: A lot of people complain about Sandy the dog being changed into a Shiba Inu. Sandy in the original ''ComicStrip/LittleOrphanAnnie'' comics is almost always a large, orange or reddish-brown dog with pointed ears and a white muzzle. The new dog is more true to the source than the Otterhound Sandy from [[Film/Annie1982 the 80s film]].

* EnsembleDarkhorse: It seems the only character anyone likes in this film is Grace Farrell. The fact that she's played by Creator/RoseByrne has something to do with it.

* FridgeHorror: It's stated that Annie was abandoned, which was her reason for being in a foster home. But we never learn the other girls' stories. It's possible that something else happened to them, especially Pepper, who is more bitter than the others. Then you factor in their playing along with Ms. Hannigan, implying that her guardianship might be better than other homes they've been in.
* FridgeLogic: From the main page, the AppealToObscurity trope mentions a girl asking who George Clooney is. He's not that obscure of an actor is he?
** In fairness, Mia's probably no more than nine, and George Clooney is in his fifties. Given the other references older people make that she doesn't get ("What's a Hard Knock Life, anyway?") she seems to be HangingALampshade on the fact that a lot of kids in 2014 don't really have an awareness or sense of obligation to pop culture from before their time, including the 1982 ''Annie''.

* DesignatedHero: Unlike previous adaptions, the other orphans willing participate in the scheme to set Annie up with fake parents and aren't shown as having to undergo a HeelFaceTurn like Hannigan.

* InformedAbility: Several characters refer to Hannigan as having a beautiful singing voice. Cameron Diaz has the poorest voice in the cast.

* {{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 his house -- 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.

** 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.

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