Majikat This modern day adaptation is a lovely family film with differences and upgrading from the original, whilst keeping in with the well known storyline

alexandra_lawes Best redo of a classic I have ever seen. Great actors, great music, perfect entertainment! An all round winner!

foghorn_clj Seriously it's just bad. How bad you may ask? To paraphrase a quote from Will & Grace, "Mariah-Carey-in-Glitter" bad.This movie is just so awful there is literally nothing good about it. Jamie Foxx's Will Stacks is so unlikeable you find yourself wishing he did get hit and killed by the truck at the beginning. Rose Byrne is grossly underutilised and given horribly vapid dialogue that even she can't make work. Cameron Diaz's performance as an abusive, drunk foster mum began ok and then she opened her mouth to sing and my ears started to bleed. As for newcomer Quvenzhane Wallis (P.S. Your parents should be shot for giving you that first name) seems to have been picked only because she's African American with a fro and a gap between her two front teeth. There really is no acting, singing or dancing talent here. The dialogue is pedestrian and for some reason everyone is speaking at 3x the normal speech rate so it's ridiculously hard to keep up with what's happening. And this is probably the biggest problem with this movie. It's moving so fast there's no time for character development or an emotions whatsoever. AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE.

comps-784-38265 Trying to modernise a well loved story/classic film is fraught with danger. If you change things you are damned for changing. If you keep things the same you are damned by comparison to the 'classic' versions that have gone before. This film fails on both levels. Setting it in modern times makes you cringe with embarrassment. Acting kids always have that smiley theatre trained over confident, precocious totally unreal 'fake' sound and look, which is pretty much standard for a group of kids, particularly in a musical. In this offering they actually reach a new level of annoyance. But you can excuse the kids, because the adults are so so much worse. Cameron Diaz cannot act - it was pitiful. Do not waste your time watch this film, you will never get that 2 hours of your life back. You have been warned.