The Wiz is one of the most boringly staged musicals on film. Also, the ugliest. I'm assuming that MJ has a big prosthetic on his chin, or was he really that chunky for a split second?
My after-school musical in sixth grade was The Wiz. I played a breakdancing graffiti munchkin and the "mean ole" Lion. Our 52 year old music teacher cast herself as Dorothy, Michael Jackson was a chunky Irish girl, and the only black kid in the entire class was working the lights the whole show.
Eastern Europeans fucking adore Michael Jackson. My Russian friend says she doesn't even care if he's a pedo because "he's done so much for kids all over the world."
Anyway, I liked this movie as a kid because it had robots.