Great setlist and production values, but nowhere near as fun as as Dance Central.
Overall the production is pretty nice. Controlling the menus is as good as it can be - I particularly like the option to select something and then "validate" your selection by hovering over another button. It's still difficult to scroll through the various songs at a decent rate - it's usually too fast (all the songs fly right by making it impossible to select the one you want unless you make very subtle hand movements).
The dancing is not as forgiving as Dance Central. This takes quite a bit of the pick up and play fun factor out of the game. Some of the moves require high kicks and difficult transitions. It's also very fast - the pacing seems 25% faster than the hardest Dance Central difficulty. The move recognition seems either less accurate, or less forgiving than Dance Central. I've definitely did a move Perfectly and gotten only OK, and I've definitely screwed up a move and gotten Perfect on it.
I'm also still not sure if I should be timing my moves to the music, to the queue cards, or to the backup dancers. The queue cards are difficult to see and the timing of them is strange. They have a timer associated with them, but the timer doesn't keep proper time. Sometimes they'll flash "4 3 2 1" at the speed of 2 "real" seconds, and sometimes they'll flash "2 1" at the speed of 4 "real" seconds. It's bewildering.
There is also alot of move repetition inside a particular song. Most songs really only use 5 or 6 different moves, repeated in different patterns. As far as I can remember the dances are roughly the same that you've seen in the music videos.
The game also doesn't have a difficulty option. You can either practice (one verse or segment at a time, similar to the Practice mode in Rock Band), or you can do the dance only, a Performance (dancing plus singing), or a Master Performance (again, think Expert level difficulty if it was Rock Band). What you cannot do is make the dancing part easier like you can do in Dance Central. You can't take a hard dance and play it on Easy mode. A hard dance is always going to be a hard dance, unless you chose Master Performance, where it will be harder. Fortunately, it's impossible to fail out of a song - however if you're not a decent dancer or have a poor room setup, don't expect to get any more than one star on the harder songs like Smooth Criminal.
The singing part isn't that great. You can use an external Mic or the Kinect Mic. You don't have to sing on pitch or anything - just make some sort of sound in time with the words and the game scores you accordingly. It's presented well, but it feels kind of tacked on. In my fairly loud surround sound setup, the Kinect mic picked up the backing vocals, so I was able to Perfect most of the lyrics without actually singing anything.
Co-Op mode puts one person singing and one person dancing. Kind of weird as I hoped for a more Dance Central pure dancing mode. Again, it's presented well, with logical breaks for swapping players. However, add the fact that you don't really have to "sing" on pitch and it makes the Player 2 Dedicated Singer portion of Co-Op mode pretty unsatisfying.
The MJ school option just plays a bunch of videos, breaking down the moves, giving you stretching practice, stuff like that. While it shows your body on the left side, it's not interactive, you're just watching the videos and practicing on your own.
Overall, based on the what I read for the MJTE on the Wii, I had really low expectations. I was pleasantly surprised because of the slick production values and the setlist. However, this game simply isn't as "fun" as Dance Central. It's far too difficult for casual game players, and when I show off my Kinect, I put in Dance Central instead of this game. It's not as accurate in tracking your moves, the moves themselves are presented in a confusing matter, and newcomers get frustrated quickly. The feedback system is poor and unreliable.