Starship Troopers: Invasion [DVD]

Excellent film in series.

Starship Troopers: Invasion is the fourth movie in the Trooper franchise and the first to be animated just using CGI. I'm a huge fan of the first film and have been nothing but disappointed since and sadly Invasion just continues that trend.First and formost are the strange changes they made, Carman, Rico and Carl all make appearances but none of them are anything like they should be in either appearance (Carl now has black hair...) or personalities with once again Carl having the biggest change having been made into a complete tool. The troopers armour has also been completely overhauled so they look more like mechsuits which took away quite a lot of the iconic Trooper image which also bothered me a lot, it's either based on the Roughneck TV show armour or as Invasion was made by a Japanese animation studio Stage 6 could reflect that.The actual story is passable but the way it gets there has quite a few plot holes, bad dialogue and has quite a lot of cringeworthy moments. I mean at one point one of the Troopers takes on a bug using martial arts, it was just painful to watch. This is also the type of film where all three of the main female protagonists were naked within 30 minutes for almost no reason, ridiculous.This isn't a deep movie either, none of the tongue and cheek satire is there, just all out action and explosions. Some of it is rather exciting to watch though with bullets, bugs, gore, spaceships and explosions all around.Visually Invasion is a mixed bag. The mechanical side of things it's spot on, the ships, guns and suits all look great. The characters though are another matter, lip syncing is way off as it was obviously made to a Japanese dub and never reanimated for an English voice over. The whole film also has a grainy effect and the colours seem really muted for a lot of it but overall the graphics are of very good quality.The music has some nice tracks that go with the over the top action, some of which are remixed versions from the original Starship Troopers soundtrack. The voice acting in English however is another matter, feels almost like a dubbed Bruce Lee movie from the 70's.Overall as a one off watch Invasion was fairly mindless entertainment but it doesn't really add anything to the Starship Trooper universe and they made some bizarre choices I couldn't get over. If you can put that aside, deal with the awkward moments and want some fodder for the brain then give it a go. If not rewatch the original Starship Troopers, even after 16 years it's a brilliant film.+ Visuals are decent.+ Action is good.- Trooper armour and Carl Jenkins are completely wrong.- Lip Synching is way out.- Sub Par voice acting.- Cringeworty in places.

Loved it. Great addition to the Starship troopers series

It was enjoyable. There was a bit of viloence in it for younger viewers.

i can say this is far better than anyone thinks its is, it takes the best parts for the book, the animated series (which isn't talked about enough) and the films.The only thing i wish is that this was the ending for the series that it was based around the roughnecks chronicles because that ending was never made. However this film is as close at the moment as we are ever going to get. I wish we had the roughneck characters dizzy, haggins, doc, gossard, baby max bruto, tphai. with General Redwing and Sergeant Zimm in this movie. it should of had them. The fact they don't even mention the word roughnecks is a bit of an insult. Camren does mention the team she was once a part of was a good team which is suppose is a nodd to the roughnecks but still not good enough i wish the series was recognised more cos films were ok but did get it very wrong compared to the book.Rico and Carmen in this are slightly different to what you are use to but Carl Jenkins is a completely different character i feel his character in this was a bit of an insult to the way he's been portrayed before now.Despite my peeves and wishes about this film it is very goodthe queen bug (which has only been seen in the series not to be confused with the brain bug seen in the series and first/third film) is captured, made the primary antagonist of the film and is killed which gives us roughnecks fans some recognition.But yes VERY GOOD BUY THIS !!!!!!! KEEP THE LEGACY GOING!!!!!!!!!!

I put this on pre-order when i watched the little trailer, something I never do with blu ray titles, because the clip looked amazing visually and because I love good CGI. The clip looked to be just like very high quality cut scenes in good production value Video Games. When I started watching the actual movie I found I had some small criticisms such as the character rendering, lip sync, texturing and colours could have done with some improvement whereas all the solid objects etc were beautifully done....I also started to think oh well, great looking as it is this is going to be another cliched Starship Trooper movie, same old formula as the others...yawn...Actually nothing to fear...at times breathtakingly beautiful and full of stunning, crisp, clear and colourful detail on my 1080p 50 inch plasma this is a stunning movie and even a good little story. I really found myself thoroughly enjoying this and worth every penny of the £15 I spent. Even got emotionally attached to some of the characters...Yes the original main trio are all here as well as some new additions.If you like high quality CGI movies and enjoyed the Resident Evil Movies and The Final Fantasy Movies you have to have this movie in your collection....The quality of the artwork and rendering seemed to improve as the movie went on as if the team working on this became more flourished and practiced as they went along.....If I'm honest I believe this is THE best quality CGI I have ever seen, and a whole movies worth....Good Job Stage 6 Films.Overall verdict, absolutely loved it!