I got this for the same reason I got the Annie TV movie - because of musical theater people. Between Matthew Broderick, Kristin Chenoweth, Debra Monk and Victor Garber I figured we couldn't go too far wrong. And it DIDN'T go too far wrong. While Matthew Broderick was NO Robert Preston (what was up with "Trouble"? Talk about seeming unconcerned), he was decent enough, and Kristin Chenoweth was heaps better than the ridiculously blah and silly-voiced (how culturally sophisticated is THAT analysis?) Shirley Jones. Victor Garber played a completely different character than the original movie's Mayor Shinn, and while it was good, it was still quite different. I think my mom hit the nail on the head when she pointed out that the original movie made all the characters caricatures, while this movie tried much harder to make them into real people. What happened was . . . well, it was a pleasant viewing experience, just a completely different one than I was expecting. (Last minute edit: Another thing I noticed... this remake, at least for the first half of the movie, gave me that odd sensation of just rushing from song to song with as little in-between time as possible. Not that I minded much, the songs are fantastic, but just wanted to point that out.)Musical Theater People Sighting: Well, of course, there's Matthew Broderick and Kristin Chenoweth, both musical theater people. And Victor Garber as the mayor. And that's Debra Monk as the mother. Okay, actually I have no clue who Debra Monk is except that she's on my My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies DVD (singing a song that's so boring I always skip it).