Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012)

Such a frustrating disappointment

Just perfect...

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

This is literally my favorite film I have ever seen. Made by the animators that make Appleseed which is the best CGI films until this. It is actually better then the first movie from 1997, with better action, acting "voice acting" and its realistic science fiction style is unmatched in any film/anime/CGI I have seen. Its story is a solid 10/10 with no plot holes or stupid mystery box gimmicks. It is fantastically paced and with a great adult plot consisting of just the right amount of complexity, violence, profanity, and nudity. A true master piece of R rated Adult CGI animation. I truly do not know why this film does not have an 8+ on IMDb, it certainly deserves it. If you like the original film and realistic science fiction made for actual adults this is the film for you. The only people who are not giving this amazing film good reviews must not have liked the original film or high quality CGI that is actually made for adult audiences.....

To start with a really painful film to watch. By 25 minutes in, I had to make myself keep watching it.I didn't know it was CGI. That was an unusual shock. It seems "directed" by some of the not so great aspects of manga. (don't get me wrong, I have a lot of time for good manga). It seems like slightly mangled sci fi). It's much more final fantasy style than classic star ship troopers.ST1: Great film ST2: horrible ST3: bearable, but looses the special effects plot at the end.ST4 is a slightly painful japanimation style scifi. It doesn't let up on the 'human detail' cgi, and the film has a horrible "spoilt feminism" theme running through it. Very un military, but quite...."emotionally pandering". him: "it wasn't your ship" her: "but i want my ship back". him: "thats not a standard military gun" her: "I use this gun to kill aliens".The general quality of the cgi animation is very watchable, altho every face and body has a fairly expressionless "rubber skin" effect to it. The characters are very "predator" like. What i mean by that, is that they all seem to have a "niche". Whether it's the religious guy, the martial arts guy, the brick built guy, the female who must avenge her family, and so on. A lot of the characters have the required disdain for the different way of life of any one of the "other" characters.Some of the design is almost fetishy. The male armour suits have a very distinct backside. (hard to miss). People also seem to be "on each others asses" a lot. Don't worry the female individually modelled armour has a cyberpunk attention to it.Because of the films design, there is often a momentary "animation pause" in all the scenes. Especially when they are top-off, the film has an an animated CG script feel to it. People often pause or have a "distinct facial expression" (made of rubber) just before they say something.It comes across as either "I'm remembering my lines", or its "I'm going to pause to make sure you all know I'm going to say something". In fact when they are unsuited, it comes across as "I'm going to talk once I get used to this rubber body that I'm wearing".It's better to watch the characters when they are suited up. In fact maybe the film is much more like watching a cut scene from Halo. Even while suited, there's still a distinctive "it's my line now" "now it's my line" etc. When faces are shown, There is often the animated wordless fraction of a second dedicated to making sure you know that a certain emotion is trying to be conveyed. It seems sort of bolted on. Maybe it's because emotions can't (or haven't been) conveyed while the CG is saying the script ? In a sense, all the faces have been treated with botox. Especially the eyes and the corners of the mouths are fairly expressionless. Maybe I'm being unfair to the animation. It's a good effort. But the dialogue and style just seems more manga than western, for better or worse.I've actually just recently watched the hidden fortess, and many people in ST4 all seem to be as angry as many people in H.F.Let's not be overly critical. The entire ST4 films "special" effects are infinitely better than the final mech-warrior scene from ST3. It honestly is fairly stunning computer graphics, but could have done with real actors. The last 25 minutes or so of the film are quite spectacular.There is a line of dialogue at the very end which is very much in keeping with the hidden fortress theme. H.F. has a song, which most western audiences would think has pretty dismal lyrics. ST4 also has a fairly downbeat line at the end of it.It's much more starship troopers meets halo: final fantasy edition. that's a much more accurate title.

I really like the Starship Troopers franchise, all of the movies including this one.They are lots of fun, lots of action and lots of special effects. This time thought its a CGI version, a bit more serious, with a little bit lame script but still good movie.I love science-fiction/horror and CGI movies and this had it all, including a little CGI nudity and muscles mm-mm.Every character in the movie was ready to be the hero and ready to die for the cause, each one was a strong enough character for you to be able to pick your favourite. Which is always good, not like some movies where the characters are weak and boring and you don't care if they live, die, succeed or fail miserably.The plot felt predictable and i found myself thinking i could guess what was going to happen next but then all of a sudden it changed and caught me by surprise. Just when you thought they were safe they wasn't and just when you thought they were goners it all turned around in their favour...or did it? You will have to watch and see.Over all it was entertaining movie and i would be happy to see more either real actors or CGI...its all good.P.S Keep watching the end credits.

When I was younger I was always a big fan of starship troopers and ever since then it has had a place in my heart even though as I got older I realize it is a B movie. Then I saw the second one and was horribly disappointed so I didn't even bother with the third one. I had not even heard of this CGI version until last night so I decided to give it a try. Im so glad I did.This movie blows the third and second out of the water and it may even be better then the first one. Personally I just liked the epicness of the first one if they had done this one like that it would have been better. The CGI is good and so is the story line and action sequences the only downside about this is the acting, Some of the characters are sub-par at best.If you are a big fan of first starship troopers well I highly suggest you give this one a watch. It is probably the best one to be made so far and they just make more like this.