I don't find the film to be overly freightening, I think it would be okay to show to a young child. There are no curse words or profanity, or anything of that nature. The theme might go totally over his head, but that's okay too.
I think the film was well paced, to be honest. Michael's acting in it was good. I don't understand when people say Michael can't act, because he actually can. I'd love for him to someday do a full scale musical. Thriller had such a wide impact because no one had ever taken the medium of music video to a feature film production before, Michael did, and he's really the only one since to have successfully done so. Other's have tried it, but have failed. I.E. Justin Timberlake with that god awful What goes around video. Michael understands performance and he understands cinimatogrophey, etc... One thing you may notice with Michael is, the camera angles rarely change when he's engaged in a dance sequence, they stay put for the most part, so you can see what he's doing. With these rediculous acts today, the camera angle changes every few seconds, you never can get a grasp of what they're doing, and then you come to realize later that they really can't dance well at all. What Michael does consistently with his films is he produces a quality performance in each one, the highest quality performance. He's greatly charismatic, and he lights up whatever stage he performs on. And despite what some people say, he's able to improvise beautifully. With "Smooth Criminal" for example, the areas of the film which weren't choreogrpahed with back up dancers, Michael was told just to hit the mark and do whatever he wanted. So the secnes where Michael is by himself, he's doing all of that on the spot. He's a great, great artist.[/b]