Jamie Foxx - The Foxx Boxx Collection (Unleashed/I Might Need Security/Straight from the Foxxhole) | 
| Actor: Jamie Foxx
Studio: Image Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 17030
Format: Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd, Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 3
Running Time: 192 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.7 x 0.6
MPN: IMED1907D
UPC: 014381190724
EAN: 0014381190724
ASIN: B00068NVJ8
Release Date: December 14, 2004
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Product Description
Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 09/18/2007
Amazon.com
The Foxx Boxx Collection offers not only some topnotch stand-up comedy, but also the rare opportunity to see a rising star at three very different points in his career. In Straight from the Foxxhole (from 1993), Jamie Foxx is still raw, still refining his comedy, but also hungry for success and throwing himself into his act with full abandon. His physical and vocal talents are in full display with his breakout character Wanda from the sketch comedy show In Living Color, his impersonations of different famous men telling a woman to leave after sex (including James Brown, Prince, and Bill Cosby), and a routine about a paraplegic getting into fights and being knocked out of his wheelchair (you may have guessed by now that Foxx doesn't shy away from controversial subjects). Tweaking black celebrities is a favorite theme; in Unleashed, he imagines a Biggie-Tupac-style feud between Morgan Freeman and Cosby, skewers OJ Simpson and Mike Tyson, and depicts Bill Clinton as "the closest thing to a black president we're going to get." Unleashed was shot in 1997, when Foxx's movie career was just budding; Foxx is a comic juggernaut at this point with the audience eating out of his hand. By the time I Might Need Security was shot in 2002, his movie career had taken off. Foxx clearly still enjoys doing stand-up, but it doesn't consume him the way it did in the previous concerts. Make no mistake, there's still plenty of humor, fueled all the more by Foxx's fresh stardom. He gets a lot of mileage from a squabble with LL Cool J on the set of Any Given Sunday and finding himself uncomfortably attracted to Prince. (Warning: Many of Foxx's routines are extremely sexually explicit, which may jolt viewers who only know him as an actor.) --Bret Fetzer
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 K.M Acevedo February 12, 2009
K. M. Acevedo (Philippines)
I'm very happy with this product. Jamie Foxx is straight guts!!!
It just took a little bit longer than I expected for the cd's to get here. Will do business again.
 Utterly disappointing February 26, 2007
Dr. L. P. Zako (Coventry, UK)
I tried hard hard, but couldn't find a single DVD that I enjoyed in this collection. What a waste of money! Jamie is a better actor and singer than he is a comedian. I might have laughed8 times through all three discs- not good enough. Perhaps I expected too much from Jamie. He just isn't witty enough. He has that schoolground bully type of humour. You can just picture him being the bloke that took the mickey out of the poor kids with low self-esteem. Don't get me wrong, I am no prude and I love irreverence and political incorrectnes, but I feel like Jamie tries too hard.I don't think that comedy comes naturally to him.
This box set is definitely worth a miss.
Scratch February 25, 2006
Evan Waddy-Farr
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The package's general condition is good. However, one of the movies is scratched. The first day i played it, it froze on one part, and now it does the same thing every time. I'm hoping I can fix it with some alcohol or something.
 The Forgotten King Of Comedy August 17, 2005
Willie Beamen
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Jamie Foxx is the best comedian on the planet. He keeps you on the edge of your seat with his comedic style, not to mention his unbelievable singing voice. The Texas native has finally been brought to the world and this DVD proves it. I can't wait until he drops another album!
i just want my jamie!! May 3, 2005
DOROTHEA MATHEWS (ATLANTA, GA United States)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
the show was ok but the man looked good! DANMM JAMIE!! WHEW!
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