Starship Troopers: Invasion

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A distant Federation outpost Fort Casey comes under attack by bugs. The team on the fast attack ship Alesia is assigned to help the Starship John A. Warden stationed in Fort Casey evacuate along with the survivors and bring military intelligence safely back to Earth. Carl Jenkins, now ministry of ... Paranormal Warfare, takes the starship on a clandestine mission before its rendezvous with the Ales...
  • Starring: Luci Christian, David Matranga
  • Directed by: Shinji Aramaki
  • Runtime: 1 hour 29 minutes
  • Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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Synopsis: A distant Federation outpost Fort Casey comes under attack by bugs. The team on the fast attack ship Alesia is assigned to help the Starship John A. Warden stationed in Fort Casey evacuate along with the survivors and bring military intelligence safely back to Earth. Carl Jenkins, now ministry of Paranormal Warfare, takes the starship on a clandestine mission before its rendezvous with the Ales...
Starring: Luci Christian, David Matranga
Supporting actors: Justin Doran
Directed by: Shinji Aramaki
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Runtime: 1 hour 29 minutes
Captions and Subtitles: English Details
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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MPAA Rating: Rated R for violence, language and nudity
ASIN: B008XCF7Y6
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  • MPAA: Rated R for violence, language and nudity
  • Production Company: Sola Digital Arts, Stage 6 Films

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63 of 71 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars CG Animation Film from the Director of "Appleseed" August 7, 2012
By Tsuyoshi TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Format:Blu-ray
"Starship Troopers: Invasion," fourth feature film of the series, is a computer animated film directed by Shinji Aramaki, a Japanese animation director, best known for "Appleseed" (2004). Three principal characters from the Starship Troopers series, Carmen Ibanez, Carl Jenkins and Johnny Rico appear, but their roles are relatively small, in the film's first half in particular.

The story goes like this. Earth Federation Force troopers led by Lieutenant Tony Daugherty (Sam Roman) are sent to Federation's outpost Fort Casey that was attacked by bugs. One of the survivors is Carl Jenkins (Justin Doran), ministry of Paranormal Warfare, who takes over the command of the Starship John A. Warden from Carmen Ibanez (Luci Christian), and leaves the bug-infested base without telling what happened.

After the mission, Johnny Rico (David Matranga) - he is General Rico now - gives a new assignment to Carmen and the trooper team on the fast attack ship Alesia. John A. Warden is missing, and they have to find the starship and Carl.

The story of the 89 minute film is fast-paced but sometimes confusing and cluttered with too many characters. The weapon designs (trooper's powered suit and Marauders) are impressive, and so are the production designs of the starships, but CG-rendered human characters leave much to be desired. The faces of the characters barely escape the so-called "uncanny valley," but still sometimes look lifeless.

The combat scenes are mostly acceptable, but don't expect intensity of Paul Verhoeven's live-action version, which remains the best of the series. The battle scenes with Arachnids get repetitious as the story goes on, and sometimes movements of bugs and humans look a bit awkward. And ... do we need a shower scene here? (The film includes nudity.)

"Starship Troopers: Invasion" is executive-produced by Casper Van Dien and Edward Neumeier, the writer of all three "Starship Trooper" films. Casper Van Dien, who played Johnny Rico in the first and third films, does not appear in this animated film, which was shot in Japan in May, 2011, using the motion capture technologies. The film's visuals are by Sola Digital Arts, Inc., a studio founded in Japan in 2010. The script is written by Flint Dille known for his animation and video game writing.

"Starship Troopers: Invasion" is an OK animation film with some nice combat scenes, undermined by the creaky storyline and occasionally ineffective visuals.
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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Follows It's Previous Movies September 5, 2012
By C. Weaver
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Not bad. It's all CGI. I sort of liked how they worked at getting the action and such to flow. It's hard using CGI to do this and they pretty much made it work.
As far as the story goes, it follows the Starship Troopers story line pretty good. I think that made Carl a bit more sinister than the previous movies but I guess that's OK, as I guess if you had his mental "gifts" you might be too. I noticed there was a good job of using the stuff from the previous movies too. (One note: They really must make their starships really well to have that ship go thru what it went thru an still crash in one piece!) Anyway, I enjoyed it and look forward to the next one.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Finally some cool adult animation!! September 5, 2012
By JafariStew
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I was eagerly anticipating this release since I liked both the Starship Troopers franchise & the Appleseed movies. This film did not disappoint with some great action & perfectly directed female nudity!! I liked it so much I bought it the day of release after seeing it 1st online!
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