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DVD
Sony
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Surround Sound, Collector's Edition, NTSC
Actors: Nicholas Guest, Irene Bedard
Follows the adventures of rico carmen & carl a trio of high school buds lured to enlist by the thrill of adventure on distant planets these unsung heroes are unaware that the battle of the bugs is about to re-erupt sending them all to the front lines of the first interstellar war. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 07/05/2005 Run time: 778 minutes Rating: Pg
The Complete Campaigns is a four-disc compilation of the Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles series that was originally released on eight DVDs: The Pluto Campaign, The Hydora Campaign, The Tophet Campaign, The Tesca Campaign, The Zephyr Campaign, The Klendathu Campaign, Trackers (including the four bonus episodes), and The Homefront Campaign. While Paul Verhoeven's dark, satirical adaptation of Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers seriously strayed from the novel, this Verhoeven-produced TV series--part sequel, part remake, all CGI animated--hews closer to the spirit of the novel, a space-age twist on a World War II battle adventure. Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles is a series of military skirmishes and assignments on a variety of fronts, such as Bug City, water-dominated Hydora, the desert planet Tophet, the jungle planet Tesca, fiery Klendathu, and good old Earth. The episodic nature works perfectly within this framework, and the mix of Marine grit ("No retreat, no surrender!"), military jargon, and understated melodrama give a feel somewhere between the steely seriousness of an old-fashioned war comic book and the spectacle and romance of a Japanese anime space opera. The CGI animation is less ambitious than in such feature films as Toy Story, but it's one of the most impressive examples of the animation made for TV. The detailed designs, rich textures, 3-D modeling, and awesome sense of scale (not to mention the pumped-up action and whiplash speed of the bug army) give it the look of an impossibly sophisticated video game, with the rat-a-tat editing and soaring camerawork of a Hollywood movie. The budgetary shortcuts are evident in moments of blurring and jerking, but overall it's startlingly effective. The PG-level violence may not be appropriate for younger viewers, but it's aimed at an older crowd and has won a loyal adult following. The packaging is very convenient (a shelf-space-friendly four discs in Thinpaks), but unfortunately, serious Roughnecks fans will want to hold onto their old discs. Cramming the eight discs of content plus bonus episodes (granted, Trackers was a short disc) onto four single-sided discs apparently left no room for the producer/technical commentary tracks that accompanied most of the previous discs. The only bonus features are photo galleries and a fold-out illustration. --Sean Axmaker, David Horiuchi Beyond Roughnecks at Amazon.com 
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Stills from Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles (click for larger image)
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| Feature length video game. |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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Liked the stories, but the graphic quality of the characters could be better. Generally fun viewing, though.
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| Great |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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I liked to see the ending to the series. i didnt like the sequels to the original movie.
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| Pure Adventure |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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My 11-year old son is a big fan. While the plots are little on the simplistic side, it is a great bit escapist fantasy (excuse me science fiction). I need to re-read Heinlein's Starship Troupers again to be able to compare. The animation is late 90's quality, but OK. Much better than the live-action movie.
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| TV execs are idiots |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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This series was so well done and so far and away better than the
movie that it was patterned after as to be not even associated with that awful film. Not at all like the original Robert A. Heinlein novel but I loved it all the same. This series was excellently written, tremendously well acted and the animation was quite decent. I wish this series had never went off the air. Once again, it shows how TV execs know nothing about brilliance because only a moron would let a series this good get away from them.
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| Great |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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Really interesting story and plot, lots of action every episode
Keeps your attention
Conclusion: If you love Sci-Fi or action, get this!
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