It is the same island identified in a papal announcement of the discovery of Noahs Ark. RIP Michael.ĪKA: Michael Jackson in Neverlanding Story. An airplane filled with beauty contestants crashes on a remote island. If you want to see a fitting tribute to the King of Pop, watch the Thriller video again. You know, I’ve been watching a lot of Before They Were Famous movies (Choices, Children of the Corn 5, The Seniors, etc.) lately so it was kind of a nice change of pace to watch an After They’re Dead movie. Miss Cast Away (2004) Miss Congeniality (2000) Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005) Miss March (2009) Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008) Miss Potter (2006) The Missing (2003) The Mission (1986) Mission to Mars (2000) Mission: Impossible (1996) Mission: Impossible II (2000) Mission: Impossible III (2006) Mississippi Burning (1988.
Oh and did I mention the movie stars Eric Roberts and the dude from Joe Millionaire? Yep, it’s that kind of flick folks. Since the Ark resides on the island, everyone must band together to stop the apes and rescue Noah’s dingy. It seems that the monkeys from Planet of the Apes have stolen the Ark and want to drive it around so they’ll kill all the humans and be able to reclaim the world after 40 days and nights. You see “Agent MJ” works for The Vatican and he tells the co-pilot that if Noah’s Ark ever touches the water again, it will flood the world and kill everybody.
While everyone bickers, the virginal co-pilot (the annoying dude from 18 Again) finds some doohickey that contacts him with Michael Jackson. A plane loaded with beauty pageant contestants crashes on a desert island. I suppose I should tell you the “plot” of this thing. That’s about all the movie has going for it though. The other ½ * goes to the bizarre sight of seeing Michael (more or less reprising his role in Men in Black 2) making an ass out of himself. There is ONE funny joke in the whole movie that makes fun of The Sixth Sense where some chick says she sees dead people and then Charlie Chaplin is revealed to be sitting next to her. Again, shit I’ve never seen because it looks incredibly weak. This one spoofs (among others) Cast Away, Survivor, and the Harry Potter films. The movie (and I use the term “movie” very loosely) is more or less a low budget version of those Extreme Movie/Disaster Movie/Date Movie spoofs that I haven’t seen because they look woefully lame. The Bad News: Michael’s cameo is about as long as the clip they showed on TV. The Good News: Michael’s cameo is the best part of the whole flick. It came in the mail the other day and I watched it. All this time I kept thinking: This is going straight to Number 1 on my Netflix Queue. And I’m like, “What the fuck is this shit? How come I’ve never heard of this flick before?” Then they showed a brief clip of Michael talking to the guy from 18 Again while surrounded by some cheap-o magical force field and spouting some inane garbage about Noah’s Ark. Then out of nowhere they mention “his final film”, Miss Cast Away and the Island Girls. One show was going through all the usual career highlights: MJ on The Sullivan Show with The Jackson Five, the Moonwalk, the Thriller video, etc. I see his life, his death, and everything in between shown 24/7 on 75 different channels. Okay so last week I’m watching the constant Michael Jackson coverage on TV.