Annie: A Royal Adventure!
A young red-haired girl dangles happily on the corner of a double-decker bus, her right hand holding at one of the passenger handles as her dog pants by the lower-left side, with the Houses of Parliament and a partly-visible Big Ben in the background.
GenreFamily
Musical
Written byTrish Soodik
Directed byIan Toynton
StarringAshley Johnson
Joan Collins
George Hearn
Music byDavid Michael Frank
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producersWendy Dytman
Ruth Slawson
Production locationLondon
CinematographyAlan Hume
EditorJames Galloway
Running time94 minutes
Production companiesRastar Television
TriStar Television
Original release
NetworkABC
ReleaseNovember 18, 1995 (1995-11-18)

Annie: A Royal Adventure! (also known as Annie 2 or Annie 2: A Royal Adventure!) is a 1995 American comedy film and the sequel to the 1982 theatrical film Annie. It was released as a television film on ABC in the United States in 1995 and internationally in 1996, and is approximately 93 minutes long. The film has no songs apart from a reprise of "Tomorrow" sung at the end of the film, immediately after Daddy Warbucks is knighted.

None of the cast members from the previous film appear in this sequel. Annie, Daddy Warbucks, Molly, Punjab, Asp, Sandy, and Miss Hannigan are the only characters from the original to appear in this film. Grace, Rooster, Lilly and Mrs. Pugh are not in the sequel. Many of the original cast had either moved on to other projects or were too old for the sequel.[1]

Plot

A year after the 1982 film, twelve year old Annie Warbucks (Ashley Johnson), Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks (George Hearn), their dog Sandy, Annie's new friend Hannah (Emily Ann Lloyd), an eccentric scientist (Ian McDiarmid), and Annie's old friend Molly (Camilla Belle) (who is still an orphan but gets adopted by the Webb family in the end), travel to Britain, where Warbucks is to be knighted by His Majesty the King. However, the kids and their new English friend Michael Webb (George Wood) get mixed up in the scheme of an evil noblewoman known as Lady Edwina Hogbottom (Joan Collins) to blow up Buckingham Palace while all the heirs to the throne are present for Daddy Warbucks' knighting.

Cast

Reception

The film received a mixed reception from critics.[2][3]

Home media

The film was released on VHS on November 14, 1995, and Region 1 and 2 DVD in 2004 and contained no special features, only a subtitle selection.[4]

References

  1. ^ "'Annie' Is Back, This Time In London | The Seattle Times". Archive.seattletimes.com. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ O'Connor, John J. (18 November 1995). "TELEVISION REVIEW;Annie and Daddy Warbucks Go to London". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  3. ^ Horst, Carole (13 November 1995). "Annie: A Royal Adventure". Variety.com. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  4. ^ "DVD Talk". Dvdtalk.com. Retrieved 12 November 2021.

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