varyagilyarevskaya
We watched MJ's Halloween twice and we loved it! It's fun, it's lovely, it's a pleasure to watch and listen. As a teacher with 20 years of experience in teaching teenagers, I can say that it's not easy to get them interested. But my students enjoyed the cartoon from beginning to end. As Michael Jackson himself once said, "Kids...are a very demanding audience. You can't fool them". The characters are charming and appealing to kids. Even the evil ones are not that evil. The actors, who voiced the characters, did a great job. The cartoon has a positive and clear message. If you don't have a goal in life, don't follow the music in your heart, you become a mindless zombie, a walking dead and it's easy to manipulate you. In the dancing finale, MJ's music unites people of all races and ages. Don't underestimate his influence on children and teenagers. And it will always be this way because there will never be another Michael Jackson.
RetroPizzaTimeCritic
The TV Special about two kids names Vincent and Victoria who enter mysterious palace hotel in 777 Jackson Street. with bellhop chimp named Bubbles who help them to follower the music before female villain named Conformity who want to taken over the world to get rid of all music and dancing, its up Vincent and Victoria to save the music and dancings with all three keys to bring Michael Jackson to stop her. This Halloween Special is was fantastic idea for follower the music, and fantasy. but I really like this halloween special, but I wish their gonna release on DVD until next October and of course broadcast of this special again, but this is for Michael Jackson fans out there
as-19253
I watched the show and was impressed with how the music was integrated into the video. It was clear the plot was about conformity and how doing what you believe is alright in order to change things. The animation was very good. The animated dancing pumpkin's performance of MJ's dangerous song was excellent. Some of the scenes reminded me of the plot in Captain EO. The animated Michael performing Thriller was super. At the end, the message from Michael was Believe In Yourself.
jonathan_k80
I was puzzled when I first saw the trailer for this special. What does Michael Jackson have to do with Halloween, outside of the "Thriller" video, which was actually about horror movies rather than about the holiday?The characters looked cute, so I thought I would give it a try. What I saw was 42 minutes of something that played out like a movie based on a video game. The two protagonists, Vincent and Victoria, make their way through a series of challenging areas... a pumpkin patch, a haunted house, a cliff, for example. They encounter strange anthropomorphic characters along the way, some are helpful, some are villains. All this time they are fleeing from an evil magical woman named Conformity, who, like her name suggests, hates individuality and freedom of expression. She is a manifestation of the main characters' real-life job experiences; they both work for unappreciative employers who view them as mere cogs in a machine.What about Michael Jackson? Many hints are dropped throughout the special: a concealed figure with a gloved hand, a chimpanzee chauffeur named "Bubbles" (remember M.J.'s pet chimp?), a Michael Jackson- shaped icon that leads Vincent and Victoria to the next level in their journey. This leads up to an actual encounter with Michael that lasts maybe a couple of minutes.I'm still trying to figure out the rationale behind creating a Halloween special which revolves around a celebrity who died in 2009. Does he return from the dead every October 31? Has he become a zombie, a reference to the "Thriller" music video? So many unanswerable questions. I didn't hate this special. There was a vague "don't give up on your dreams" message to it, which has been overdone. But I think the concept would have had more potential as a video game, with its villains and challenging levels. I highly doubt I would view this a second time, if it is ever rebroadcast.
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