Yesterday my girlfriend and I decided to go to Disneyland. Living in the LA area, it wasn’t such a big deal. But, what was a big deal was the confirmation of a rumor we had been hearing for the past few weeks. Captain EO is back!
Now the last time I watched Captain EO I was a wee lad with no idea of what true awesomeness was. It all looked cool back in the day. As an adult and having every inch of my childhood handed back to me on a silver platter I was a bit skeptical on how good Michael Jackson could possibly be. After all Transformers, G.I. JOE and Dragonball were presented to me last year chopped all to hell. To my surprise Captain EO was better than I could have possibly imagined.
Okay so let me explain. Do you remember the 80s? Sure hair and clothes were a bit off, but the 80s were the golden years. America was good and proud, television cartoons were experiencing a golden age and Michael Jackson could do no wrong. He was at the top of his game. He had his best music in the 80s not to mention his most favorably memorable music videos. And… he was black. There were no rumors of him sleeping with children or monkeys or whatever. He wasn’t crazy, or he wasn’t portrayed as crazy in the media. He was good and that was awesome.
This is what Captain EO reminds us of. Michael Jackson is good. 80s Michael is good. And he’s at the top of his game in this movie. This movie was well worth the 45 minute wait that I had to endure. Everyone in the theater was pumped. We cheered as the Michael rose into frame for the first time. The crowd went crazy when he Moonwalked for not even half a second. And the electricity could be felt as the first dance number was cued with audience simultaneously shouting out with Michael, WHOOOO!!! There are no special edition FX to throw you out of the movie. It’s all the same old school special effects, stop motion and 3D magic that makes Captain EO a classic.
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