Stars: Elizabeth Daily, David De Luise, Nicholas Guest

Director: Chris Berkeley

Summary: An adaption of the novel by Robert Heinlein which follows a group of troopers who fight to survive against alien invaders...

An extension of both the film and book versions of STARSHIP TROOPERS, this brilliantly rendered CGI series follows the adventures of new Space Marine recruit Johnny Rico, a member of an elite killing squadron known as Razak's Roughnecks. The Roughnecks are holding the line against a spacefaring alien-insect menace intent on destroying Earth. This volume comprises the first story arc, which deals with the Roughnecks defending a base on the barren, icy planes of Pluto.

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Roughnecksis the computer-animated TV spin-off from director Paul Verhoeven's live-action sci-fi shoot-'em-up Starship Troopers. Verhoeven had already seen his Robocopmovie spun-off into animated television with mixed results, so when it came to Starship Troopershe wanted Roughnecksto be a little different (the director acted as Executive Producer on the series). The style of computer animation here recalls, if anything, the little green soldiers from the Toy Storymovies. Backed by an unending techno-based score (despite which the series has won several awards for sound editing), the 20-minute episodes are like viewing brilliantly conceived "cut scenes" from computer games. The series concept begins by taking the movie's characters, giving them different origins---and then forgets about a bug home-world in favour of a mobile threat that can appear anywhere. With souped-up combat suits that better acknowledge Robert Heinlein's original novel, the technological look and feel also owes a significant debt to Aliens.

This first collection edits together the opening five episodes to make a 100-minute self-contained movie about a crawling infestation on Pluto. You'll know where shows start and end by the narration. The story is all to do with set-up as we meet the titular Roughnecks: Rico, Dizzy, Doc, Jenkins, Higgins and Razak. Between missions of rescue and mercy, a love triangle is established, Rico's heroics and Higgins' cowardice are explored and more bugs are wasted than you can possibly keep count of. The finale's discovery of "Bug City" will test anyone for arachnophobia. --Paul Tonks

Aspect Ratio:	1.33 Full Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Photo Gallery, Scene Selection
Subtitles:	Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish
Year:	1999
Release Date:	May 7, 2001
Runtime:	97 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C D R P 938
Keywords:	Animated, General, Series, Fiction, Pluto, Starship, Chronicles, Science, Roughnecks, Volume, Troopers, Campaign, Animation, Horror, Vol, Sci, Fi
Genre:	Science Fiction