Academy Award® nominee Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild) stars as Annie, a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan (Cameron Diaz). But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx) - advised by his brilliant VP, Grace (Rose Byrne) and his shrewd and scheming campaign advisor, Guy (Bobby Cannavale) - makes a thinly-veiled campaign move and takes her in. Stacks believes he's her guardian angel, but Annie's self-assured nature and bright, sun-will-come-out-tomorrow outlook on life just might mean it's the other way around.

I was pleasantly surprised, cause I thought this was gonna flop, just by watching the trailer. I have seen other versions of Annie. Now after siting through it, I gotta say, I enjoyed it. Not saying it's all perfect it's not. But I admire this update for trying to stand on it own, and trying to be better than the other versions.

Quvenzhane Wallis is quite charming has the main character, and does not try to be overly cute to sell the movie. Cameron Diaz who I thought was gonna be miscast as Ms Hannigan, but was surprisingly good, after a string of bad performances, this might be her comeback. Rose Byrne was also great. But Jamie Fox who was good, but in some scenes I thought his performance was like he was in different movie. But other than that an entertaining film, a good update to a classic musical.