The Michael Jackson Movie Is Shockingly Bad (Full Review)

our full movie conversation here:    • BONUS: Kayla and Brian Talk About the Mich...   TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Setting The Stage 3:35 Our Review 10:54 Retire Music Biopics 13:06 Fan & Critic Reception check out kayla reads!    / @kayla_reads_books   follow me on social media: https://linktr.ee/kayla_says JOIN THE PATREON! https://www.patreon.com/kaylasays?utm... thank you to BABILA for my new end credits theme!    / babila  . Michael is aiming for a record-breaking opening weekend. It’s also a critical flop. In a vacuum, the Michael Jackson biopic might sound like a perfectly palatable film. The movie stars Jackson’s real-life nephew Jaafar Jackson as the titular singer, following his childhood through the height of his career in the 1980s with non-stop musical sequences of the King of Pop’s greatest hits. But Michael Jackson’s legacy is more than just music. Audiences and critics alike are panning Michael for glossing over the dark side of Jackson’s life, proving that it takes more than a famous subject to make a biopic a critical success—even while Jackson’s star power propels the movie to a box office of $70 million its debut weekend.