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List Price: $29.99 | | Label: Hurricane Int'l
Salesrank: 15191
Released: August 11, 2009 |
| Our Price: $21.07 |
| Used Price: $14.98 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
The hard-hitting film of how a celebrity lifestyle conspired to destroy Michael Jackson. This sensational film reveals how in the last years of his life an unbearable psychological pressure built up on Michael and his inner demons took control. The DVD draws on rare footage of the “King of Pop” with the most famous people on the planet including Princess Diana, Nelson Mandela and Uri Geller as well as candid interviews with Elizabeth Taylor and La Toya Jackson. Also included is a fully illustrated book with a complete biography of Michael.
Moonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson Reviews:
SAVE YOUR MONEY ON MOONWALKING: THE TRUE STORY OF MICHAEL JACKSON 
2009-12-03 - This is just an exploitive piece on MJ. Don't waste tour money on this. The book and DVD don't offer nay real insight into the King of POP. Is just hows video footage and commenatary of so-called "experts". The footage is nice to see MJ, but there is no quality to the work and the commentary is pointless and the facts they present will never be know by anyone now that he is gone.
SAVE YOUR MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank God for reviews YUCK!!!!! Do NOT buy!
2009-09-18 - Ok, I have a LOT of material on MJ (to compare this to) THIS SUCKS!!!!!!!!! As other have mentioned here, British production, very 'thrown together' took a FEW film clips we've all seen and planted them repeatedly over & over amongst a handful of psychoanalyst giving their analogy of "his" life, peppered w/ a lot of boring fan-on-the-street comments. I COULD NOT BELIEVE HOW MANY TIMES THEY RAN THE SAME CLIPS OVER & OVER & ... (w/ REALLY bad music in the background .. No, not MJ's).
Thank God for reviews keeping me from even CONSIDERING purchasing this (I was a glutton for punishment and rented it)!
WAAAAY better MJ material out there.
HELPFUL REVIEWS
2009-09-16 - I read all of the above reviews and they told me all I need to know. This is just another false premise look at someone they know nothing about. I include myself in the leagues of Michael's loyal and loving fans. To me and millions of others, he does not need to be explained by so-called experts. Just so much hogwash.
Mediocres analyzing a genius, halfway work 
2009-09-10 - I understand the intention of this video to "protect MJ" from further attacks by saying that "he was a child" because of the numerous traumatic experiences he had to go through as a child star. Although it could hold certain degree of truth, it is considered quite one-sided because in this video, his strangeness is under microscope while his exceptional talent is totally put aside.
When you talk about a human being, you need to handle it as one whole package. History shows us that the strangeness and the genius are often strongly connected in a man. You shouldn't just cut apart just one of them and cook it.
All the geniuses in history had the experience of being stigmatized by the mediocres as strange because they acted based on their own observation of the world and their own decisions, rather than just following the manual called "social norm".
Geniuses are the people who have the spiritual strength to see the facts without biases and think by themselves, while the mediocre does not have the mental and intellectual toughness to do so, and therefore they totally depend on the "answered questions" or "social norm". However, a social norm is nothing absolute.
As a manual, "social norm" can ease you to act, saving your time to think what to do, but it is useful only in a certain place in a certain time, and its validity is limited only to "normal" situation. For example, you would not be in the same bedroom with your friend's son if he is doing fine, but what if this boy is terminally ill and confesses you that he cries every night out of fear of death? A person who thinks by themselves might then think that holding him through the night is the right thing to do. He might think that leaving the devastated boy alone to play safe is a hypocritical deed. "Social norm" does not work in those emergency cases. So analyzing everything in the light of social norm is a dangerous mistake we tend to make.
Remember what happened to Galileo? Remember how Michelangelo was condemned to paint God and saints showing their whole bodies? Remember how Mozart's Figaro and Bizet's Carmen were criticized for being vulgar? Those geniuses just saw the reality with non-jaded eyes, and just expressed the truth just like the child who said "But the King has nothing on!""
Calling him as a child is okay, I agree that MJ had amazing childlike quality in him, but then, you also need to analyze how important it was, is, will be to have a child eye to be a great scientist, artist, or a philosopher.
Trash , Trash, Trash
2009-09-09 - i should've read the reviews before wasting my money on this piece of garbage. The author of this video obviously NEVER met Michael. Why didn't they talk about all the charities and people he helped all over the world instead of his plastic surgeries and the FALSE allegations that were brought against him? This is nothing more than all the tabloid fodder compiled into a dvd. Trust me.....save your money !!
