Michael Jackson's This Is It

Here comes the review of yet another star that has left us. First, Imaginarium. Now, the musical legend that is Michael Jackson. And his curtain call is an absolute belter.

This Is It is no ordinary film. In fact, it's not actually a film at all. It's 2 hours of rehearsal footage of MJ himself in the run up to his 50 date sell-out show (you can't call it a tour, it's all in one place!) in London's O2 Arena. And on the basis of the footage shown, the Show-That-Never-Will-Be would've been among the greatest shows of our time. The show was co-created by MJ and Kenny Ortega, the genius (ahem) behind the High School Musical films. Having said that, "co-creator" isn't really what Ortega does, as it shows in the footage, he just goes with whatever MJ tell's him he wants and says "Yes, do what MJ says" and just watches, clapping.

The film shows many of MJ's best songs in full rehearsal form. Songs such as Bad, Beat It, Thriller and Smooth Criminal, but to name a few. But MJ never really gives it everything in the performances. He was holding himself back, ready to unleash his absolute genius for those 50 dates, and those 50 dates only. He wouldn't sing the songs full belt in order to save it, his dance moves were much more intense than his singing, but even they were lacking in much oomph, if that's how you spell it. And even without the oomph, his dancing really is absolutely effortless.

One of the highlights of the film for me, however, was the footage of The Way You Make Me Feel and Billie Jean. The Way You Make Me Feel was breathtaking, MJ had changed the song slightly to a more acousticy feel, with just him, a piano and a small drum beat, and it was outstanding. Billie Jean was absolutely superb. In the final moments of the song, there is one spotlight, MJ and a drum beat. And that's where MJ shines. He seemingly improvises a dance routine that was close to his absolute best, and you have to wonder. In those 30 seconds, I was mesmerized. What would it be like for 90 minutes? Absolutely no one knows. And that's the sad part. It would've been absolutely incredible. But we'll never get to see it. After seeing that, I will completely blank out whatever he did that was controversial, his skin solour change or the business with kids or whatever. Michael Jackson was. An absolute genius.

A truly excellent experience, that still doesn't give full praise of the master himself. 7.6/10.

The following is for a male species that read my blog, but the female species may still read on if you're that interested.

I have no idea how, and I envy him incredibly for this. But MJ managed to find, without a doubt, the hottest guitarist in history. And she's bloody good at the old guitar too. There's footage of her improvising to the end of a song (I can't remember which song, I was mesmerised by her beauty) and that's unbelievable. Shortly afterwards, it shows her and the other guitarist doing a sort of duel/dual guitar solo, and it's just breathtakingly good. I find girls who play guitar very attractive indeed. And I've just found the best one yet. Unless Hayden Panettierre or Hayley Williams plays guitar, then they may have just been overtaken. Shocking, I know.