Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall

I LOVED this documentary. The only con for me was i feel like they didn't talk about the Motown days enough, i wish they spent another 30 mins talking about it and showing more footage from the early 70s. I loved this documentary though and the clips they used were in great quality! I wish John Legend wasn't in it though, i cant stand him.

Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall (2016) is a documentary movie directed by Spike Lee and it was great.

Positives for Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall (2016): It was cool to see a lot of interviews with actors, musicians and singers talking about how important Michael Jackson was to them growing up. I liked a lot of the footage from Michael Jackson's concerts. The documentary is 93 minutes long and is paced perfectly with enough stuff to keep you invested. And finally, it was cool to see Michael Jackson rise to fame and became the biggest pop singer ever.

Negatives for Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall (2016): This is a documentary movie that I will only watch one time as it isn't something that would be in the mood to rewatch anytime in the future.

Overall, Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall (2016) is a spectacular documentary movie on the biggest pop singer of all time and it will certainly please a lot of fans with a fun and interesting experiences on Michael Jackson.

Michael is a legend and this right here is a fantastic documentary of his early days as an artist. Amazing work by Spike Lee. And also rest in piece to the king Michael Jackson. We all love you and miss you man.

I've watched this about ten time, now. The Jackson Five was big when I was in high school and I loved the songs they did in the very early 70s. I love how this addresses how mature he was, as a child, and how he was so eager to learn and instinctively knew things that it took most adult artists years to learn. He was amazing, and in interviews, he always seemed so nice, and to enjoy what he was doing, immensely.

I love the fact that this documentary ends before what I think of as the artificial Michael Jackson started to come out. That part is so unspeakably sad that I can't stand to watch anything about it. I don't really think saying that is a spoiler, since the title says that it only goes through "Off the Wall".

Michael Jackson was a rare thing, a child star who actually made it as an adult. He was also a complicated icon of black America, an individual whose sanity was sometimes questioned, and a businessman, very definitely promoting a product. Spike Lee's documentary focuses mainly on the first of these, charting his rise to fame. It's definietly an interesting story, but the overall tone is hagiographic, and the contrast between the young Jackson's astonishingly shy public persona and the confident performer is never completely explained: there are a lot of talking heads here, but none tell us anything that personal. Still, it left me wanting to know about the next phases of his life as well, the rise to megastardom and madness, and his unfortunately early death; and with a sense of recognition of his phenomenal talent, even though his music wasn't my personal taste.