Billyboy will give his opinion of the other “Annie” (or “Blannie”) abominations. I tend to share it. The only serious problem I had with the ‘82 version, which I didn’t realize until much later, was the sycophantic treatment they gave to FDR and Annie being a disciple of his. FDR should’ve been the villain and Annie a Harding-Coolidge girl.
The 1982 film is actually a well made movie and John Huston did a surprisingly good job for being in the awkward position to direct a "children's musical". The problem of FDR being portrayed as the hero of the film stem from the fact it was based on the 1977 Broadway musical.
The Broadway musical completely REVERSED the original intent of Harold Gray's "Annie" source material and was far more blatant than the movie in its "big government liberal policies good, free-market conservativism bad" message. Two of its most overt political songs, the sarcastic "We'd like to thank you, Mr. Hoover" and "We're getting a New Deal for Christmas", didn't even make the movie and were replaced with new benign songs like "Let's Go to the Movies". (the writer of the movie also tried to "fix" the ridiculous premise of Daddy Warbucks being pro-FDR by adjusting the screenplay so Warbucks dislikes and distrusts FDR throughout the movie, only "coming around" very reluctantly at the end, to please Annie) The Broadway Musical didn't even use any of the storylines from the original comics, it came up with its own unique storyline and also most of the supporting characters were invented for the Broadway show instead of being part of the original comic strip cast of characters. Had the 1977 broadway show been around in the 1940s, it was so one-sided pro-FDR and pro-New Deal he could have used it as a two hour campaign ad.
The 1982 movie was about the best you could get from that putrid Broadway material (although the 1995 TV movie does do some things better than the '82 version). The problem is that EVERY version of Annie since 1977 has used the Broadway show (especially since the songs "Tomorrow" and "A Hard Knock Life" as the main source material, rather than use anything from the original Harold Gray comics that were written from the 1920s-1940s)
The 2014 movie is an abomination and adds SJW propaganda on top of the already existing problem of leftist economic propaganda (all of which will likely go over kids heads anyway). Glad it bombed. The 2014 movie is about as far away from the source material as it gets.
Curiously, a recent list of "top 25 redheaded characters than SJW Hollywood has blackwashed" missed Little Orphan Annie, which should have been the most obvious example.
If any franchise needed a "Reboot", it would be this one.
I first noticed this with the 2014 "Annie" remake -- all the major characters were now black, with the exception of the movie's main antagonist, the eeeeeeeeeevil rich white capitalist owner of the orphanage, Miss Hannigan (which strangely had Cameron Diaz cast in the role). The character is NOT from the comics, BTW. She again originates from the 1977 Broadway show.
They did this again with the recent 2020 remake of Roald Dahl's "The Witches". The little boy that saves the day and his friends are now all black (or gender-swapped to female), but the eeeeeeeeeeeevil antagonist of the story, the Head Witch, remains white. I'm sure the people making the movie will say that is all just a coincidence.
In any case, it seems to be a pattern now.
Disney films and the BBC have a less offensive but still weird trend of the last 20+ years of having interracial couples in a historical setting where such a relationship certainly would NOT have publicly shown or celebrated. The 1995 Annie remake actually did that (Daddy Warbucks was openly in love with and dating a black woman in 1930s NY)