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hyped garbage

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

It's basically Michael Jackson: The Movie. The film has no real relevant story, and the narrative is all over the shop. There is some kind of message stating 'Hey Kids, drugs are bad, that's why I called my album that, it's subliminal!!' It all starts with Man In The Mirror, then we get 'treated' a career in pictures, showing us his greatest moments, and the narrative basically telling us just how amazing Jackson is.Then there is a strange Bad homage, quite good claymation, another music video, and we are treated to some sort of mini-movie with Joe Pesci as a Spider loving drug lord who is a walking drug warning.It's all pretty bonkers stuff, but considering the subject matter, it's probably unavoidable.It's just not a real film.The first half is a love in for the man, and the second half is a weird science fiction come gangster movie where Jackson dances, sings, turns into a car, and then, very slowly, turns into some sort of aircraft.And this got released at the cinemas here in the UK.It's an oddity for sure, It just would have been interesting to see just what it could have been, it may have been something quite wonderful.

If you think that you saw everything in your life , watch this movie . Lynch and Cronenberg have nothing on Michael Jackson. The cover doesn't lie – It is truly a movie like no other . Well , not quite movie . It's more like a one big music video. It is even called after Jackson's famous dance."Moonwalker" starts with Michael Jackson performing live "Man in the mirror" . This part shows you the mass hysteria from MJ fans. It also shows that unlike many pop artists Jackson actually had some message to say – change yourself , change the world. One could say it's pretentious to think that a simple song will change the world , yet I think that MJ deserves some praise for his ambition. After that we have a retro perspective of Jackson's career – from Jackson 5 to the release of "Bad" album in 1988 , when Jackson was at peek of his career. We see a clips of live performances , music videos and some colorful animation.The retro perspective ends with "Badder" – a parody of Jackson's video "Bad" with kids instead of singers. It turns into short story about Jackson running away from his crazy fans. It's probably the most interesting part of the movie . It's done in clay motion and seems like it's inspired by "Who framed Roger Rabbit ?" . The whole segment is basically one big cartoon set to the "Speed demon" song . It moves at crazy speed , but if you lucky enough you will see Steven Spielberg , Sylvester Stallone , Pee Wee Herman and Tina Turner parodies as well. This part ends with dance contest between Jackson and Spike , who is… rabbit. It's quite funny part of "Moonwalker" – "I asked for bad guy and they send me Michael Jackson ?!"."Leave me alone" , one of Jackson's best videos appear as some sort of interlude. It's a satire on paparazzi and very colorful circus video. After "LMA" and 35 minutes of the movie already gone finally we something that resembles a mini movie. It's a story how Jackson has to save three homeless kids (and the world from evil drug dealer Mr. Big (played by Joe "Goodfellas" Pesci). The story here is too serious , so cheesy , so absurd , so laughable just like Pesci's haircut . Jackson is portrayed as superhero with magic powers. I don't want to spoil anything , but inside that story there is a expanded section of "Smooth criminal". Movie ends with Jackson performing "Come together" – his cover version of The Beatles song.As you can see this movie is truly a bizarre one. There is no real plot and the whole movie follows dream-like logic. It's colorful , fast and completely empty (with the exception of "drugs are bad"). It's more like one big commercial and ego trip. Even "Flashdance" has more coherent plot. If I saw this at cinema , I would probably be disappointed. It was a hot on VHS as I remember (I have a copy of this movie on VHS at home).It was based on Jackson's original idea and I guess nobody went against it. Too bad , because with more humor , clay motion and less ego trip this could work . The whole "Speed demon" section shows as that this movie could work as family entertainment . If only they expanded that idea… The non-fans of MJ shouldn't watch this . The casual fans also might be disappointed . The die-hard will love it. I give it 4/10.

Woefully bad Michael Jackson vehicle that pits the chameleon singer against a sadistic drug lord and a whole bunch of storm troopers. The musical numbers do something to rescue the production from oblivion, only because Jackson can sing and dance. Frightening to see Joe Pesci playing the evil nemesis of Jackson. He sure went up from there.The movie opens with a brief Jackson anthology, and the entire film would have been streets better done like that from beginning to end. Ah! Michael and his imagination! At least he did not go on to further embarrassment by making another "Moonwalker".Monday, April 26, 1999 - Video

And I don't say it in a bad way.I watched this movie at the cinema when I was 6 or 7. For me and my cousins it was magical, beautiful and scary at the same time. When we left the theatre, Michael was our best friend even though we knew he had no idea about it.Over the years, I saw this movie being aired a few times but I always changed the channel. Even seeing a few seconds of it would bring back that feeling of magic and warm my heart. And I liked it that way.So I've only seen this movie once and I believe it was a good decision not to watch it again. If I saw it today, I know I couldn't help but criticise MJ's acting, the plot (if there was one) and this and that. For me this is a childhood memory, so my feelings towards it are those of a child from 20 years ago.I see my adult self intervenes in my rating and gives it an 8 for the memories and wonderful music. For that little kid who watched it in awe 20 years ago though, this is definitely worthy of a 10.