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3.0 out of 5 stars
A Definitely Inspiring Viewing!, Aug 16 2011
By *badgirl* - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Do You Think I'm Sexy (2 DVD) (DVD)
This double disc Limited Edition features Madonna's biography Madonna Music Box Biographical Collection 2004 UK DVD PHV003DVD along with an in close in-depth look at Madonna's performance impact on culture, music, and history Madonna - The Performance Review both as a musician, and actress. As surpassing the limits, Madonna breaks the mold when it comes to reinventing, provoking, or making social awareness through her music, performances, life, and achievements! This will give you a look into the rise of fame that took place and how it stood the pitfalls, and road blocks along the way thus paving the platform to Queen of Pop!
One disc is the Music Box documentary that explains the basics most fans already know like birth place, parents and siblings, beginning of her career of how she got to her first deal and all the way to the controversies that sparked many critics to feel outraged as conservatives were up in arms. Madonna is analyzed through the microscope further on other disc as experts go in-depth describing the videos, songs, and performances as they related to society, the world of music, and their impact. Worth mentioning is how both discs make a clear picture that Madonna pushed buttons and provoked. She was not afraid to put her sexuality out in the open for the world to see. Interview clips from Jonathan Ross Presents... Erotica Madonna were put along with "Wogan Meets Madonna", "Girlie Talk" were not on it unlike the DVD titled Madonna: Music in Review. The interviews on Madonna - Virgin Interviews (Unauthorized) are not here. This has another set of rarities.
What's different from this set is the fact that very rare clips were shown not seen ever before. It has paparazzi shaky footage of Madonna with Sean Penn, in the wedding, and in outings. Also, many other appearances from the 80's that put Madonna on the spot as paparazzi and journalists asked very critical questions. I enjoyed the Evita portion clips, the Erotica analysis, and the 90's talks the most. This also has from other eras. As the entire viewing takes you all the way until the "Confessions on a Dancefloor" album. Quite upsetting was how Live at Brixton Academy or the Music album was not even mentioned. Fans of glamour will see Madonna walking with Michael Jackson looking astonishing and ravishing.