Starship Troopers: Invasion [Blu-ray]

Loved every bit of the movie, great special effects, awesome CGI visuals, interesting characters, good story line, fast paced, great action scenes and a new story arc to boot. Did I mention how good the visuals are?! There are some slight road bumps throughout the story, but they are minor in comparison to the overall scheme and successful presentation of the movie. You don't need to have seen the other previous movies to be able to watch and enjoy this highly recommended sci-fi visual spectacle - 5 Stars!

I thought going in this would be an ok movie. It is animated so how good could it be right? Just wow, This ended up being the best of the entire collection. This movie is really intended for those of us that read the novel and are Heinlein fans. Though there are a lot of fun references to the previous movies. One of the problems of doing this book live action is that the technology really does not currently exist. In animation you can achieve anything and they do.Ok onto what you really want to know.One disc which contains the movie, previews and special features.I will say I enjoyed the previews too. Some really good movies coming out.The Special features are over the top good!Filmmaker Commentary;Deleted Scenes; and they both really should have been deleted.Gag Real; This was just fantastic. I was unsure if some of these were real gags or the setup gags like you see in Pixar stuff. It was all vocal and nothing changed in the scenes so these might really have been mistakes the Director shared with us.The Making of Starship Troopers: Invasion; This includes 11 different little documentaries about the movie. They were quite well done. They include~Genesis ~Archive ~Character Design ~Motion Capture ~Powersuits ~Bugs ~Ships ~Animation ~Backgrounds ~Composting ~Music.Again I found this to be quality entertainment for the cash I parted with.

Good quality 3d animation, lots of action, good spin off of the original Starship Troopers.

Parts 2 and 3 are piss poor movies with good actors, bad direction, and are cheap ploys to make a quick buck off of the us real fans of the franchise. Trust me im being nice!This movie is kind of a restart that more closely imitates the book (according to the Japanese makers of this film) but it is a pretty good add on to the first flick! I was expecting a realy cheesy movie with horrible motion artifacts and boring gaps of wasted time and OK CG effects that make the hole thing barely tolerable. I was soooooo wrong!There CG work is detailed and well thought out and the special effects are fantastic. The story is big in scope and rather scary when the bugs' plan is finaly revealed. The threat of the bugs has been stepped up bigtime.As an ameture computer animator I can spend alot of time critisizing a lot of little things the Japanese animators did wrong or mostly wrong but im not going to do that. However I will say 3 things that are common problems I see in this movie and in 2D anime. 1. There was 1 to many "glory" shots! Some of the ladies got these slow sexy shots that started at their feet all the way up to their faces. All this while being naked. Males are obviously the target audience here. 2. There were a couple of non-action situations that could've gone better. The Japanese typicaly have some guy (or gal) who is the hardass in custody, soon to be released, or emotionally distant from everyone else who later comes to save the day. Sound familiar anime lovers? 3. Although this film did a much better job of it, most of the characters were very similar in appearance. The women in particular.All that said the movie is kick ass with awesome surround sound, crisp HD picture, and some stunning brutal visuals! Im very happy this movie is in my collection. Im a fan of the Staship Trooper franchise and this is the jolt I have been looking for after the nightmare of the 2nd & 3rd movies.

Nice movie

When do I "Press Play to Begin"? In 2001 "Final Fantasy: The Sprits Within" hailed a new era in film making. The CGI world took a giant leap towards the vitual realism we were all expecting to see from "the latest advancement" in technology. We knew that after that, anything was possible. And WETA! Serkis' Gollum came alive and we all pitied Sméagol because he was so human, or halfling-ish. Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles took that mo-cap edge and brought to the little screen what we just knew could be, one day, brought to fruition on the Big Screen. And I waited 12 years for This?So the movie opens with an almost direct quote from the Heinlein classic. Almost false advertising. The remainder of the script was more like "Starbucks Troopers: The Napkin Chronicles". I am a diehard fan of Heinlein's original, Paul Verhoeven's Fascist Indictment treatment, and yes, the Audu Paden and company's Roughnecks. I have bought-in to the franchise and drank my fill of the Kool-Aid. In other words, I HAD to see this. Did I HAVE to buy it too? They were all out of Catcher in the Rye...I give this 3 Stars because it is a worthy effort. It did move the ST Universe story-line along. (Though the Roughnecks already fought one Earth invasion.) It was a nice nod to both the live action and previous CGI versions. And, as bad as most of the dialogue was, it wasn't much worse than "Marauder". Is that a plus? The new team of Troopers carried the weight of their gear as well as could be expected. Good thing the plot was so light. Could you call this a classic too? No, but I read one.

The ship John A Warden - weren't the aliens in Buckaroo Bonzai all named John Warden? They may have been John Q Warden? Either way, amazing material used that it maintains integrity through the direct re-entry and crash landing! A fun romp through space, and not as dark with the Federation like Heinlein was warning us about with the original.