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Bad 25

2012 · 131 min

A fond, music-filled archival tribute that lets you watch a genius at work and bask in the craft behind the hits.}{.

Overview
Spike Lee pays tribute to Michael Jackson's Bad on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the epochal album, offering behind-the-scenes footage of Jackson recording the album and interviews with confidants, musicians, choreographers, and such music-world superstars as Kanye West, Sheryl Crow, Cee Lo Green and Mariah Carey.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • music
  • art
  • celebrity
  • memory
  • work
Places
None
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism9
Romance2
Tension1
Darkness2
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
documentary, music
Directed by
Spike Lee
Starring
Michael Jackson, Spike Lee, Sheryl Crow, Cee Lo Green, Mariah Carey, Questlove, Ye, Martin Scorsese
Runtime
131 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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