While I'm not the biggest Michael Jackson fan (thought the hoopla surround his death to be so over-the-top), but as I watched all this rehearsal footage play out, I was a little saddened by the fact that this really was it for a bookend on his long and successful career entertaining millions of his fans. Is it the most insightful documentary of a music superstar, far from it, but given its short time span from MJ's untimely death this summer to this documentary's release, it's the closest thing that his fans will ever experience of his planned 50-city comeback tour.
The documentary basically runs through a gamut of hit songs from the rehearsal footage, and gives us tidbits of the producing and creative aspects of putting on a MJ concert, while still keeping the viewers at arm's length from MJ the person.
I give it 2.75 stars, or a grade of B-.
The documentary basically runs through a gamut of hit songs from the rehearsal footage, and gives us tidbits of the producing and creative aspects of putting on a MJ concert, while still keeping the viewers at arm's length from MJ the person.
I give it 2.75 stars, or a grade of B-.
