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This Is It
Directed by
Kenny Ortega
PG
2009
1h 51m
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A compilation of interviews, rehearsals, and backstage footage of Michael Jackson as he prepared for his series of sold-out shows in London.
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Cast of This Is It
Michael Jackson
Self
Orianthi
Self
Kenny Ortega
Self
Dorian Holley
Self
Patrick Woodroffe
Self
Bashiri Johnson
Self
Mo Pleasure
Self
Jonathan Moffett
Self
Tommy Organ
Self
Jasmine Alveran
Earth Child
This Is It Ratings & Reviews
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Kevin C. Johnson
It's a fitting celebration of a controversial man's last days, packaged prettily with a bow on top.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Michael Jackson's perfectionism fails him in This Is It, and we're all the better for it.
Dallas Morning News
Mario Tarradell
It's purpose isn't to reinvent Jackson, but to recapture some of the creative magic that made the kid from Indiana a worldwide musical ambassador.
San Jose Mercury News
Charlie McCollum
Perhaps the best way to approach it -- at least for those who are not total Jackson fans -- is to view it as an often-fascinating document on how the sausage (or magic, if you will) is made for a mega-concert tour.
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
At best, it angrily demands to be rechristened This Is It! Too often, however, an incredulous This Is It? seems more apt.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Death returned Michael Jackson's humanity, and in a curious, tentative way so too does Michael Jackson's This Is It.
Boxoffice Magazine
Amy Nicholson
This is his '68 Comeback Special
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Michael Jackson's posthumously released film about the preparations for his 50-concert comeback extravaganza is a strange creature indeed.
Slant Magazine
Eric Henderson
Given just how much material Kenny Ortega and his editors plowed through to whittle together a two-hour scrapbook and they still could only just barely come up with the presentable material here isn't exactly a vindication.
Reel Talk Online
Candice Frederick
It's always inspiring to see a genius at work. And that's exactly how I felt watching Michael Jackson in This Is it--inspired.
National Newspaper Publishers Association
Dwight Brown
There are some who will claim this documentary is ghoulish. I think haunting is a better word, as you fathom what the music world would have been like had he lived.
At the Movies
A.O. Scott
The Michael Jackson we see here is not a self-styled Messiah or a tabloid oddity. He is, instead, what he always was underneath it all: a talented musician, a brilliant dancer, and one of the most gifted entertainers of his time.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
It's an expertly packaged -- brilliantly packaged, considering how quickly the job was done -- phantasmagoria that emphasizes, quite convincingly, the energy that Michael could still draw from whatever was fueling his wraith-thin body.
Newsday
Glenn Gamboa
In This Is It, Michael Jackson is once again The Thriller, the biggest pop star the world has ever known.
Slate
Dana Stevens
This Is It is one of the best documents of live performance that I've ever seen, a rehearsal diary that's more intimate and immediate than a traditional concert film.
Los Angeles Times
Ann Powers
Differing greatly from the rough, casual mood of many behind-the-scenes pop docs, this one is instead of a piece with Jackson's body of work: dazzling and strange, blurring the line between fantasy and reality.
Shadow and Act
Shadow and Act Staff
I think any fan of MJ's will appreciate what "This Is It" offers - a glimpse of a Michael that I don't think we ever really got to know, and the final steps of a genius, fully dedicated to his craft...
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Jackson's mystery deepens, even as it dissolves between our fingers.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
This Is It is Jackson's moment to shine. For two hours, he's alive and kicking it.
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