Directed by:
Kenny OrtegaCast:
Michael Jackson, Kenny Ortega, Misha Gabriel Hamilton, Orianthi Panagaris, Jack Donner, Timor Steffens, Jaymz TuailevaVOD (4)
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Michael Jackson's This Is It will offer Jackson fans and music lovers worldwide a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the performer as he developed, created and rehearsed for his sold-out concerts that would have taken place beginning this summer in London's O2 Arena. Chronicling the months from April through June 2009, the film is produced with the full support of the Estate of Michael Jackson and drawn from more than one hundred hours of behind-the-scenes footage, featuring Jackson rehearsing a number of his songs for the show. Audiences will be given a privileged and private look at Jackson as he has never been seen before. In raw and candid detail, Michael Jackson's This Is It captures the singer, dancer, filmmaker, architect, creative genius and great artist at work as he creates and perfects his final show. (official distributor synopsis)
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This show must have been really something. For his age, Mike was really in great form and he prepared for his comeback really diligently. But this is still just a documentary and not a record of the live show. A crying shame. It could have been one of the events of the year.
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This Is It is just painfully long bonus crap to a non-existent DVD with a non-existent concert, promoted as an amazing feature-length backstage/concert experience. Michael Jackson was a great musician and a brilliant dancer, but this is a semi-finished product that has no frame or shape.
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The last adventure of the boy from Neverland didn't end as he wished, but I thank Kenny Ortega for allowing me to peek behind the final curtain. It was during this period that an unexpected moment came when I transitioned from respect to almost worship for the King, and to this day I believe that anyone who has ever listened to any of his songs must melt while watching this film. And that a shiver runs down your spine especially when listening to "They Don't Care About Us" or "Smooth Criminal". Moreover, it is very difficult to resist the enthusiasm that Michael Jackson's persona evokes, especially in moments when tough-looking dancers, who just moments ago were dancing on stage with a rough expression, suddenly stand below him, rewarding each gesture of their god with loud cheers. This charisma literally grounds you. Except that there's no happy ending expected in this fairy tale about a famous comeback. So I can only say goodbye one last time. Goodbye. God bless you and heal the world.
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Videos (it's not even appropriate to call them films) of this format should be an hour at most and certainly should never be sold (!) as the film event of the year. The camera aimed at the "stage" for almost two hours, but doesn't look under the lid even once. I understand the genuine love Michael had for his fans in preparing his show, and that it would be an absolutely fantastic and pompous spectacle. Yet the fact that someone is making a quarter of a billion dollars out of it raises the moral hairs on my back. Not to mention the intensity with which people pay forty bucks for Blu-rays. Sad.
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