I can't believe I'm admitting to playing this game...
I know, I know; it's a game based on Michael Jackson…and he's saving little children. A bit on the outlandish side, but hey; there have been worse. (Shaq-Fu anybody?) The game play is pretty good. The controls are responsive, and the special moves are awesome. I really can't believe that this is a good game, but the fact of the matter is that it is.
You start out in some hotel or house or whatnot, and the first scene is Michael walking through a door onto the screen and flipping a coin into a Jukebox. On comes a decent rendition of Smooth Criminal, and you start. All you do is open doors looking for kids, and kick or throw fairy dust at enemies. It sounds boring, but surprisingly it isn't. After you find the last kid, Bubbles the money comes and directs you to the boss battle. They probably could have omitted this part, but it's Bubbles, so I guess it at least fits. When you get to the boss, he laughs at you, and then a bunch of guys come at you. After you beat them all, Michael does a dance move, makes a noise, (I can't think of how to describe it better) and you go to the next level.
Every level has the same basic concept, but with different background locations. After the house or whatever is a street, and then a cemetery. I never got farther than the cemetery, so I can't say what comes next. The game just gets way too hard, way to fast.
The moves are as follows. The kick: you kick fairy dust at your enemies. The wrist flick/punch thing: you throw fairy dust. The hat throw: you throw your hat (which is deadly) at your enemies. The dance!: you drain half of your life to make the enemies dance with you and then they die. The Moon Walk!: you moon walk. I don't think this will kill anybody. These are the only moves I know of, besides Super Mecha Michael Jackson, but that is practically impossible to do. You have to catch a shooting star, and they only come if you rescue the right kid first.
There's not very much more to this game than this. It is just funny as hell. The situations and the whole plot are ludicrous, but hey, it's a good game to boot. I recommend getting it and playing it often.