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Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation
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Product Details
- Starring: Billy Brown, Richard Burgi, Kelly Carlson, Cy Carter, Sandrine Holt
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- Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- Director: Phil Tippett
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- EAN: 9781404941243
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- Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
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- ISBN: 140494124X
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- Label: Sony Pictures
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- Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: Sony Pictures
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- Release Date: 2004-09-28
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- Studio: Sony Pictures
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- Title: Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation
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- UPC: 043396018471
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Product Description: Allowing for all the low-budget shortcomings that plague any straight-to-video production, Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation serves up 92 minutes of passable sci-fi action. Parlaying his veteran status as an animator, special-effects wizard, and stalwart survivor of the CGI revolution, Phil Tippett (with returning screenwriter Ed Neumeier) makes a woefully uninspired directorial debut with this makeshift sequel to Paul Verhoeven's 1997 blockbuster, retaining the jarhead militarism of Robert Heinlein's original novel while serving up more bugs, an all-new cast of attractive young stars, and all-too-familiar plot elements borrowed from a dozen better movies. "Bigger is better" is out of the question under such meager budgetary circumstances, so Tippett and Neumeier compensate with gruesome bugfights and gross-out effects at regular intervals, some standard-issue nudity, and escalating paranoia (echoing Carpenter's The Thing) when a new breed of bugs use human hosts (à la The Hidden) to overtake a stranded platoon of Federation soldiers on a bug-infested planet. Relying on murky confinement to hide nondescript sets, Troopers 2 has three engaging leads in its favor: TV regular Richard Burgi is solidly cast as the titular hero (he's the military equivalent of Pitch Black's Riddick); Colleen Porch is engaging as the most sensible Federation survivor; and screen veteran Ed Lauter makes the most of his salty role as a battle-hardened general. Unfortunately, they're adrift in a knock-off sequel (shot on high-def digital video) that could never do justice to its energetic predecessor. --Jeff Shannon
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Customer Reviews
An absolute abomination i didnt watch more than the first 10 min
No special effects, horrible acting i actually only watched the first 15 min then started watching my kittens play with a ball for about 10 min then i just stopped watching it altogether. Looks like something that comes out of brand new actors, and a brand new director with no budget. You get the picture.
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JUST ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE...
I can only say....don't pick it up, rent it, buy it, borrow it, or steal it.....it is so horrible and painful to watch I nearly cried. I believed they'd just killed a franchise I learned to love since first watching the animated series. I can't say anything else about this trash.....
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More Meat for the Grinder...
My Rating: 1.5 out of 5
The Good Things
*One or two neat special effects and action scenes.
*Some blood and nudity for those who enjoy that sort of thing.
*Remains mostly true to the concepts of the first movie.
The Bad Things
*Very low-value production. Many special effects, props, and sets look completely fake.
*Dull photography.
*The storyline is dull, uninteresting, and doesn't really continue with anything from the first film.
*For that matter, it plays out more like a horror flick than a military sci-fi war movie.
*The characters are dull and uninteresting. Acting and writing are dull.
*Probably not for the squeamish.
What can I say? This sequel is immensely unremarkable, forgettable, and dull. I doesn't even resemble a "Starship Troopers" movie; it's more like a really bad version of "Alien" or something. It's good for maybe one or two thrilling scenes of blood, nudity, or sub-standard special effects. But for the most part, this is a dud.
The DVD has okay video and sound quality, and contains a few featurettes. The Blu-Ray version is a little better in quality, but has a lot of graininess in some parts.
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Not terrible, but no good either
This movie is not terrible. It is just a very bad sequel to an admittedly poor original film. Clearly the budget was very limited, so all the money went on what little special effects there were - and those effects were I guess, OK. What is wrong is just the whole way this movie was put together. You know a movie is bad when you notice the editting. Some scenes simply end, the screen goes black and 3 or 4 seconds later, another unrelated scene starts. Unanswered quesions just lie there and wriggle, like maggots in a carcass. Why did only one of the bad guys get nekkid? ( OK because she was the cutest, silly me ). Why was one of the soldiers a coward? How did one soldier revive herself only to blow her own brains out before she could tell Dax what the heck was going on? Why did Dax kill his commanding officer? Why did the bad guys at first seemingly cooperate against the bugs? Why was only one guy some kind of incubator? What was the thing with the fingers all about? Why does private Soda go all vampiric on the General's posterior, while the others never exhibit that behavior? Were we, or the good guys really supposed to see the significance in the bad guys all of a sudden having a sweet tooth? Or should that be "sweet teeth"?
Why was this ever made?
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Really Bad Movie, I Like To Pretend That I Didn't See it!
No joking, this is a very bad movie and not worthy of being called "Starship Troopers". The original movie, Starship Troopers, was a great movie and very watchable. Don't waste your time on this one.
Not recommended at all!
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