Since there have recently been a fair few threads on here about Labyrinth and Michael Jackson I was curious to know which film is considered the best / most successful between Labyrinth and Moonwalker?
First of all I know we are all Bowie fans here and both films are hardly the last word in brilliant film making ( except Labyrinth to the likes of Sparkina
) so leaving our obvious Bowie leanings to one side, which film in reality between the two really worked best for their respective artists and fans?
For me Moonwalker wins it, it really does! OK it was a bit disjointed on first watch, but after a few watches it did click into place what was trying to be achieved. I liked the over view of Jacko's career at the beginning of the film starting from the Jackson 5 right through until his solo career. I liked the way Moonwalker started and finished with an actual Michael Jackson performance on a stage. I got the way we were dragged into Jackson's fantasy world as the viewer at the beginning where he was getting chased by all sorts of weird and wonderful animated characters, the film was filled with great original and up to standard Jackson songs and Jacko trademark dancing styles, unlike Labyrinths relationship to classy up to standard Bowie songs! Jackson played himself in Moonwalker but on a fantasy level which I thought was quite original and relevant. I suppose Bowie played himself in Labyrinth but he still wasn't Bowie as such, he was Jareth wasn't he, MJ was MJ. The involvement with the kids in Moonwalker was a bit cringeworthy and leads to the inevitable paedo accusations, but assuming for the sake of argument ( coz I really don't want to get into all that again! ) that Jackson really did innocently love kids, and that he was just a big kid himself, then I suppose the main storyline where he was this super magical hero saving the kids of the world from an evil drugs Barron was relevant to MJ and his fan base.
In short I think Moonwalker is the more relevant film to both MJ and his fans than Labyrinth ever will be to Bowie and his fans, especially the real hard core Bowie fans.
Finally both of my two kids (7 & 13 ) have watched both back to back and Moonwalker has won by a country mile, they both thought Moonwalker was great but Labyrinth rubbish, my 13 year old daughter even claiming that Labyrinth could be quite disturbing for young kids more so than Moonwalker depending how a young viewer might see it. So Labyrinth is a great kids film as it's popular defence goes, and maybe it is? but generally Moonwalker is the better film for our young it seems.
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