Michael Jackson: Moonwalker, is an American anthology film released in 1988 द्वारा Michael Jackson.

Rather than featuring one continuous narrative, the film is a collection of short films about Jackson, several of which are long-form संगीत वीडियो from Jackson's Bad album. The film is named after the dance technique known as the moonwalk, which was one of his trademark moves. The name of the dance हटाइए was dubbed द्वारा the media, not द्वारा Jackson himself; however, he did choose the शीर्षक of the film himself.

The release of Moonwalker was originally scheduled to coincide with Jackson's 1987 album, Bad. During the theatrical release of Moonwalker, Jackson was also embarking on the Bad World Tour, his first tour as a solo performer. The film was released theatrically in युरोप and South America, but Warner Bros. canceled plans for a क्रिस्मस 1988 theatrical release in the U.S. Moonwalker was released on घर video in the United States and Canada on January 10, 1989, just as the Bad World Tour finished. (His tour was supposed to finish sooner, but had been postponed due to some vocal strain, so it went on until the last week of January 1989.) The video had sold और than 800,000 copies in the U.S द्वारा April 17, 1989.

Man In The Mirror: The first segment of Moonwalker is a live performance of Man In The Mirror. It also features a montage of clips of children in Africa, Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Ghandi, John Lennon, and other historical figures.

Badder: A parody of the संगीत video for Bad's शीर्षक song, featuring children filling the roles of various people from the original clip.

The video stars Brandon Quintin Adams, who would later तारा, स्टार in The Mighty Ducks, as the young Michael Jackson. It also featured Jermaine La Jaune Jackson, Jr. (Michael's nephew) and a young Nikki Cox, who later starred in Unhappily Ever After and Las Vegas. The गाना group The Boys appeared as background dancers. Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog co-writer Maurissa Tancharoen, as well as future R&B तारा, स्टार Bilal Oliver, are also featured in this segment.

Speed Demon: The fourth segment begins with the "Badder" short film transitioning into the सेकंड short film, "Speed Demon", directed द्वारा Claymation innovator Will Vinton. A portion of the clip is set to Jackson's song "Speed Demon".

After filming "Badder", Little Michael and his bodyguards (also young kids) are leaving the set and walk through a बादल of smoke and come out as their regular age. A boy and his grandmother spot Michael and prompts the other tourists to get off the bus and chase him for an autograph. In an attempt to avoid the overzealous प्रशंसकों (even The Noid) and some gunslingers (after stumbling upon the filming of a Western directed द्वारा Steven Spielberg), Jackson soon disguises himself as a rabbit, but ends up taunting the प्रशंसकों into chasing him once they realize it's him. During the chase, he morphs into other celebrities, namely Sylvester Stallone, Tina Turner and Pee-Wee Herman. After a long chase, the प्रशंसकों are finally pulled over द्वारा a cop and are arrested. After finally losing the fans, he pulls over in a canyon and removes the costume, which comes to life and challenges him to a dance-off.

In the end, a traffic cop tells him he is in a "No Dancing Zone", and when Michael turns to point to the rabbit, he sees that the rabbit has disappeared. The cop then sarcastically asks for Michael's autograph (as opposed to "signature") on the ticket. Just as Michael is preparing to leave, the rabbit's head materializes in a nearby rocky crag, who then nods to him and smiles.

Leave Me Alone: The fifth segment of the film is the animated संगीत video for the song "Leave Me Alone", focusing on media interest in Jackson's personal life, because he had felt that people wouldn't leave him alone. His beloved then-pet chimp Bubbles makes a cameo appearance as Jackson is seen picking him up and riding with him in his spaceship.

Smooth Criminal: The segment begins with three homeless children sneaking through a big city to see their friend Michael walk out of his apartment. As Michael stands in front of the door, he gazes at the night sky before he is attacked द्वारा mobsters with machine guns. The film then backtracks to दिखाना Michael and the children playing in a meadow in happier times. Their dog Skipper runs away, and as Michael and Katie look for him, they uncover the cottage of Dr. Big. Dr. Big is a drug-dealing warlock with a disciplined private army of soldiers at his command, he wants to get the entire population of Earth addicted to drugs, starting with children. He likes to eat nuts and leaves nutshells wherever he goes, He is obsessed with spiders, as displayed द्वारा their abundance at the entrance to his lair, and द्वारा the way he called his operation "bugs and drugs". He also has them engulfing a model globe when making a speech about his burgeoning drug empire. They signify the spread of his proposed control of the world via drug dealing. Further, all his henchmen sport a मकड़ी crest on their uniforms. Katie screams when she sees a spider, and Mr. Big discovers them spying on his operation.

The story returns to the shooting in front of Michael's store. Unknown to the gangsters, Michael has a lucky star, and using it, he escaped the gunfire. Upon realizing that Michael has escaped again, Mr. Big orders his henchmen to track him down with dogs. He is eventually cornered in an alley, where he uses his lucky तारा, स्टार again to turn into a sportscar (the 1970 Lancia Stratos prototype) that mows down several of Mr. Big's henchmen. Michael is pursued through the city streets until he loses the henchmen. Meanwhile, the children scout out Club 30's, where Michael had told them to meet him, and find only an abandoned and haunted nightclub. As Michael arrives, Katie sees a silhouette of him turning back from a car into himself. The door of the club opens with a gust of wind, and Michael walks in to find it filled with zoot suiters and झूला, स्विंग dancers. The children gather outside a window of the club and watch Michael dance to "Smooth Criminal."

The song used in the film is much longer than the album release, with several lyrics that clarify the story. There is also an interlude where Jackson joins the other dancers in a modern interpretive dance. At the climax of the song, Mr. Big lays siege to the club and kidnaps Katie. Michael follows them back to Big's lair and ends up surrounded द्वारा his henchmen. Mr. Big appears and taunts Michael द्वारा threatening to inject Katie with highly addictive narcotics. Katie breaks free for a moment, but Mr. Big grabs her again and starts kicking Michael. As Mr. Big stands over Michael and orders his henchmen to kill him and Katie, Michael looks up and sees his lucky star. He transforms into a giant robot and kills all of Mr. Big's soldiers, then turns into a spaceship. Mr. Big gets into a large hillside-mounted energy cannon, firing on the spaceship into a nearby ravine. The children are his अगला target, but the spaceship returns from the ravine just in time to आग a beam in the तोप with Mr. Big inside, killing him. The children watch the ship fly into the night sky with शावर, शॉवर of light.

Come Together: In the conclusion to Smooth Criminal, Sean, Katie and Zeke return to the city, believing that Michael is gone forever. As the boys talk about Michael, Katie walks away crying and clutching a paper star. As she sits in a corner wishing for him to come back, the paper तारा, स्टार flies out of her hand and Michael walks out of the night fog. He takes them to Club 30's, where they find that the club has turned into the backstage area of a concert. Michael's stage crew return the children's missing dog and then escort Michael onto the stage where he performs a cover of The Beatles song "Come Together" with the children watching and cheering him on from backstage. Jackson's version of the song wasn't officially released until 1995 when it appeared on the album HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I.

During the closing credits, two और segments are shown. The first has Ladysmith Black Mambazo performing "The Moon is Walking" in Club 30's amidst behind-the-scenes clips. The सेकंड is the four-minute version of the "Smooth Criminal" संगीत video.

Cast:
Michael Jackson
Joe Pesci - Frankie "Mr. Big" LiDeo
Kellie Parker - Katie
Sean Lennon - Sean
Brandon Quintin Adams - Zeke "Baby Bad" Michael (Smooth Criminal)/Kid MJ (Badder)

The "Leave Me Alone" video aired as a separate entity and won a Grammy in 1989 for Breakthrough Animated Video, which is the only Grammy Award Michael received for the album Bad.

Moonwalker was first adapted in game form to घर various computers द्वारा British developer U.S. Gold. This top-down action game followed the segments of the film, and bore little resemblance to the later, और लोकप्रिय games developed द्वारा Sega with Michael Jackson's cooperation.

Moonwalker was developed into an arcade video game द्वारा Sega with the help of Jackson, which was released on the Sega System 18 hardware. A distinct adaptation was also developed for Sega's Genesis/Mega Drive and Master System घर video game systems. The console versions of the game were actually based on an evolved version of the side-scrolling Sega Mega Drive Shinobi series engine[citation needed], while the arcade version was a three-quarters beat 'em up.

Both the console and arcade versions are based on the "Smooth Criminal" segment of the film, following Michael in suit and fedora through stages based on his different संगीत वीडियो as he rescues children from the drug dealer Mr. Big. In the three player simultaneous arcade game, contact with Bubbles, Michael's chimp, transformed him into a robot warrior, replacing Michael's "star magic" and melee dance attacks with missiles and laser beams. In the console versions on certain levels, rescuing a certain child first would trigger a comet to fall from the sky that could be grabbed transforming Michael into the robot (which could fly with a rocket pack as well as use lasers and a मिसाइल special attack). Michael automatically changes into a robot for the final showdown with Mr. Big's henchmen and finally into a अंतरिक्ष ship for the last battle, in a sort of flight-sim shooter in the Genesis/Mega Drive version. All incarnations of the game featured the ability of Michael to use some form of "Dance Magic" which would force his enemies to dance to the संगीत of various tunes from "Bad" या "Thriller" and be destroyed as a result.