What a depressing movie to have watched on the first day of a new year, 2021! It appeared from the trailer that this might be a good movie. It was not. To intertwining stories about two orphan girls in a musical that should never have been a musical. I was totally depressed throughout the whole thing when Dick Van Dyke as an angel disappeared from Annabel's life for years and I only turned up when she was drowning. There is a connection between one generation and another, as after Annabel was finally adopted, Emily in the next generation was finally adopted by Annabelle's as an adult. Those two girls lives were absolutely horrible and depressing. I hated the musical numbers which did not belong in the story. Only in the very end was this movie redeemable at all. I can only wish that I had started the new year off with a happier movie.
Review of Buttons, A New Musical Film
