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Such a frustrating disappointment

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

This seems to be a fitting descriptions for pretty much all the very long music videos by Michael Jackson. Regardless of what you may think of him as an artist, he just does not have it as an actor or as a writer. Jackson contributed a lot to the script here and Stephen king was in the boat as well, but if Martin Scorsese cannot get a great film out of the late Jackson, then neither can visual effects legend Stan Winston. It's basically all the same as always. Jackson is full of himself and has a screenplay that lets him appear like some sort of messiah for the entire thing and if he wasn't already enough in the main role, he basically plays everybody with a slight ounce of importance during these 40 minutes. The genre is also the same as always, supernatural, fantasy, science-fiction, horror etc. His music videos really all look the same sort-of. I am yet to see one that has a truly convincing story and does not get lost in a torrent of make-up, visual effects and general over-the-topness all over the place. And what's even worse is that in "Ghosts" from almost 20 years ago the music is not even particularly convincing. Not recommended.

From the three Michael Jackson related 'films' I have watched today (the others being "Thriller" and "Captain EO"), this contains the man's best acting and dancing.The concept is simple, but in a good way; children and adults find themselves in a ghostly, haunted manor house upon a dark evening. Their cynical Mayor takes against the house's proprietor, the Maestro (Michael Jackson). The Maestro summons up a horde of ghosts, in an attempt to both scare and entertain the assembled people. Predictably enough, the children love it and the Mayor hates it, berating the Maestro as a 'freak', who would be better off in the circus.There is some sense of Jackson playing on themes from "The Elephant Man", one of his favourite films - playing an outsider, hated by many in adult society. Magic and oddity are seen to win out, with the Mayor confounded at every turn and indeed inhabited by MJ's spirit at one point and even doing the Moonwalk in a memorably amusing sequence. The ghosts work well in tandem and individually - we are treated to Elizabethan ruff wearers, arch Gothic ladies and a rather sinister zombie-jester.The music contains some of the better 1990s Michael Jackson numbers: 'Is It Scary' and '2 Bad' are not classics but are well used; 'Ghosts' is a cracking song given its perfect visual accompaniment here. Some of the ghosts' dance routines are superbly realised, and it is notable just how at home Jackson is with these spectral figures around him. Compare with his uncomfortable attempt at R&B normality in the 'You Rock My World' video, where he achieved no chemistry whatsoever with the lady he is supposed to be romancing."Ghosts" truly shows a Michael Jackson in his element, a weird man in weird surroundings, putting on an unusually entertaining horror show.

Mike has and is going through a lot but Ghosts is a one of a kind type thing . Tell me how many movies have you seen a dancing and sing ghost with others of all sorts.when you go deep into thought about it it can scare you fonding other than pure good hearted fun. Sure it is some what a little well weird but there are music videos I've seen plan awful. Not this one this one is a true one of a kind as I say again.The great thing of all I want to stress is the fact that he is preforming in this so when it comes to a end you have to see what that hole part is about which can target another idea and just as long as the performance went on another can to stress the answer of this problem or the problem that needs to be answered. Which is why THis is a just wonderful superb movie to fill a tape. Even though mike isn't the most popular thing right now his movie can be.

I am a fan of Thiller even more now than when it originally aired. I stumbled upon this film, Ghosts, on VH1 by accident. I was disappointed. It could have used more of Stephen King's story telling abilities. The direction has created a fairly boring storyline out of what could have been an interesting narrative withamazing dancing. There were some interesting elements. I too liked theskeleton, but the over-abundance of pretty much the same "crowd" reaction shot and the lack of interesting directorial ideas take away from the great special effects and the wonderful dancing. A better director would have made this apiece that could stand on its own merit, rather than just the marquee of Jackson.