Michael Jackson “This Is It” Movie

There will never be another Michael Jackson on stage. He can take such a grandiose monstrosity of a set and shrink it down to just a few feet. The man moves like no other man can. The dozens of background dancers flip, do splits through the air, gyrate in all sorts of alien positions – something a 50 year old man would never be able to do again. Not one of them comes close to capturing any of MJ’s magic.

I could watch him do a simple robot for hours. I found myself chuckling as his feet shuffled around the stage during “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’.” I was a kid again, amazed at this man who seemed so far from human. This was the Michael Jackson I want to remember.

Then there was the movie. Director Kenny Ortega does his best to weave all of the 250 hours of footage together into some sort of timeline. The film follows the concert’s path, from start to finish. I assume the goal was to make the audience feel what it would have been like to be at the show – it ends up feeling a little redundant. Luckily, “This Is It” ends up being so much more, giving us a candid look at how the world’s most famous magician created his magic.

That’s the scenario not just for gods but for pop stars who earn fans’ ardor with an electrifying presence and their sympathy with very public private lives of addiction and misbehavior. The stars’ talent makes them unique; their transgressions make them human. Michael Jackson, who died in June at 50, outlived Edith Piaf and Judy Garland by three years, and Elvis by eight. (Forget Madonna — that woman is too smart to self-immolate.) Jackson’s bizarre resculpting of his features, his litigious shenanigans with his youngest admirers, his obsession with being an eternal preadolescent, a petrified Peter Pan: all these eccentricities gave him an otherworldly cast. It took death to restore his standing as one-of-a-kind entertainer — to bring him back to life.

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