Annette
Annette
| 08 February 1957 (USA)
SEASON & EPISODES
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    Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
    TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film
    Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.
    Hulkeasexo it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.
    johnstonjames i'm glad to read that everybody who reviewed this seemed to really like it. i hate to label people, but heck, if you don't find this warm and cozy little series kind of cute, i would think you were sort of mean.i wasn't even born yet when the original MMC was on ABC, but i definitely saw it a few years later in re-runs. like Mickey Mouse himself, i can't even recall the first time i was aware of Annette Funicello because i was introduced to her image at such a young age. to me, Annette is like a Disney character like Minnie or Mickey. she seems synonymous with Disney. for many of us baby boomers it would be hard to imagine Disney without the original MMC.anyone who really knows me knows i am ga-ga fanatic over the original MMC and Annette Funicello. i mean i would be part of a fan club, but i really don't do that sort of thing. but i've seen Disney's 'Toyland' musical at least a hundred times(not kidding), and i try to buy any VHS or DVD that features the original MMC. for me it's just not Disney without it.that brings me to the crappy treatment that big, corporate Disney has given the original MMC and it's Annette movies. on the 50th anniversary of the original MMC, the Disney corporation did very little to acknowledge the MMC legacy. the original MMC has never been released in a full comprehensive volume like almost all the other classic television shows have. i mean you can see every episode of 'Red Skelton' or 'Harriet and Ozzy' but there is very little of the original MMC available. that's crap. the current Disney empire owes a lot of it's success to the original TV series MMC and 'world of Disney' and it's noticeably callous that the current corporation really doesn't seem to care. there is lots of yakking from the corporation about how much they want to preserve the legacy but that's mostly what it is. yakking. i wish big, corporate Disney would stop yakking and put their big fat bucks where their yak hole is. that's why i prefer Disney when it was just a small studio with only two small theme parks. they were more sincere. the fact that the studio won't re-release some of the old Disney classics because of political reasons is pure S--t.VIVA ANNETTE FUNICELLO!! MAY SHE REIGN FOREVER!!
    arthurblock This is now available (in the "Walt Disney Treasures" DVD series), which should be good news to many. "Annette" is one of those series from earlier days that remains fascinating even if one can't quite say why. I guess a big part of it is the energy and dedication that the talented (and mostly young) cast puts into this slightly odd show. This is a world where people send orphaned minors off to live with relatives who have no prior warning of the orphan's existence, let alone that she's coming to stay. A manipulative snob can apologize for just one example of her general bad attitude, and suddenly all is forgiven. Olmstead's "favorite record" is the blandest generic jitterbug tune I've ever heard. In any case, all this weirdness somehow seems to fit in a 50's serial for kids, and it adds to the charm of "Annette".
    ecoethos1 I grew up watching Mickey Mouse Club and loved the series. I would absolutely love to find it on DVD or VHS tape so that I could show my kids. It reminds me of the wonderfully simple life we had back then. It was my favorite of the series that they had on Mickey Mouse Club. I have told my friends about it but they don't remember seeing it and would love to share it with them. The song from the series was also one of my favorites and if they had that on a cd or lp I would definitely buy it. I have spent the last week searching the internet trying to get information on this and at last I found it. Annette was my favorite Mouseketeer because we share the name.To be able to see this again would just make me the happiest person on earth. It's the old moral of good winning over evil. It shows the good morals we grew up with and the manners and kindness we should not loose.
    elindsay524 Absolutely love this serial. My mother introduced it to me when I was a child. I am in my early thirties. I was able to find a few episodes online at youtube. I use to have them all on tape, but lost the tape. I love the simple way of things. Not everything needs to be sexed up or violence. I like those shows, but sometimes you like a nice story. Love the fashion. And it is interesting to see how kids hung out back then. I remember seeing pictures of my mother back then and everyone was so manicured. Today we are not so in the mannerisms and fashion. Definitely suggest to people who liked Pleasantville, Dick van Dyke, My Three Sons, etc. Nice family programming. With some nice laughs.