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Regular
Price $9.99
Starring:
Billy West (II),
James Arnold Taylor,
Mark Hamill,
Daran Norris,
Roger Rose,
Directed By:
Terry Izumi,
Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Release Date: 2003
Studio: Monarch Video
Format:
Color,
DVD-Video,
NTSC,
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Customer Reviews for
Aero-Troopers
Would higly recommend!
My boys were so devasted everytime we returned Aero-Troopers to the video store, so we bought our own copy! Master 6 and 4 just love this movie and have fun role - playing the characters out in the backyard and building Lego Nemaclises (sp?). We have bought copies also for their friends, who in turn think it's a cool movie too. A great movie and highly entertaining for young boys!Aero-Troopers
It's like ReBoot took a giant dump on Last Exile...
I just finished watching this, um, "movie", and I feel that it is my humanitarian duty to warn the viewing public away from this great crime against brains.
Perhaps you saw the cover of the DVD while tripping balls, or maybe you're blind. Whatever your reason for considering this purchase, I urge you to reconsider. But where to begin? The character designs are hideous, and somehow at the same time forgettable. Mark "I Peaked at 20" Hamill provides his standard "Sort of Sounds Like The Joker" performance for at least two characters. The plot is laughable. The editing, if indeed it can be called editing at all, is choppy and inept. AND OH, GOD, THE DIALOG!!! Everybody talks like a third-grader with a thesaurus. Seriously; the Eye of Argon has more believable dialog. And I'm surprised at how ridiculously BAD all the scenery is, especially since they made it so easy on themselves by setting the whole flipping movie in THE BIG EMPTY SKY. I have seen more professional flash files than this on newgrounds. Seriously.
All of this doesn't even consider that the entire concept of the film was lifted wholesale from "Last Exile", which is made all the more infuriating when you consider that Last Exile is *superlative* in every way. I'll tell you what; Amazon sells the Last Exile Box set. If you're jonesing for high adventure set among the clouds, with sassy young pilots dogfighting a mechanical monster with a mysterious past and having snappy dialog on-board cool airships, I PROMISE you that buying Last Exile from Amazon is a much better plan than watching this steaming heap.Aero-Troopers
Not sure I saw the same movie
I am not sure that I saw the movie that the other reviewers saw, or understand their rationale for recommending this film. What I saw made me very sad, some good design ideas executed badly. The nicest thing I can say for the script is that is is free of profanity, otherwise it has all the earmarks of fan fiction written by a ten year old who watched STAR WARS too much.
The lighting and surfacing team seem to think that the best way to represent the real world is to crank the keylight up to 200 and throw in a soft focus filter.
The charecter design is the visual equivalent of GUMBY and I can only think the designer phoned her designs in to a team of chimps in the Amazon. They have no rib cages and bend in strange and wonderful ways...none realistic.
To say the animation is wooden is to insult Pinnocio. The best thing they could have done is to put some CG Strings in so you thought you were watching re-run of some obscure "Super Marionation" series...but then I am am showing respect to Super Marionation.
The animators seem to have never actually seen anything fly and were either asleep in Physics or cut class.
I also watched this movie with my Ten year old son (who wants to be an animator like his father, yes I do this stuff for a living) and we were entertained, but mostly for reasons the producers never intended.
All this having been said I will recommend this film to anyone who wants to see how things, even if well intentioned, can go terribly wrong in a production. I will also say I am buying a copy for my collection, as a cautionary tale for animatorsAero-Troopers
Poor Quality DVD
I sincerely like this movie, however, the copy received from Amazon.com was in and out of focus, as if filmed on a movie screen for release. Poor quality copy. There are no setting features, special features or any other item to indicate it is a real dvd release. It is not 5.1 sound, not even stereo. Very fustrating to watch due to these many flaws
JarvisAero-Troopers
Not Good by Any Stretch of the Imagination
I recently had the displeasure of having to suffer through this god-awful "movie". Where do I start. With the horrible voice-over narration by Mark Hamill (?) that sounds like he's got a head-cold? With the almost non-existent plot? With the poorly designed and poorly animated characters? I just don't know what the makers of this film where thinking. Everything moves like its in slow motion. If I had to guess I would say this started off a a series of "cut-scenes" for an abandoned video game project that the makers decided that they could savaged by linking the separate cut-scenes together with a few voice-overs. This is what it plays like. It jumps around from one plot thread to the next. Characters are introduced then forgotten about. As one reviewer said, there just is no story flow. If you're looking for an orginal animated feature set far, far away, rent Titan A.E. instead. That's a real movie that was sadly ignored at the box-office. Bottomline - if the cover of this movie actually makes you want to rent it, go for it. But of you look at those characters and can't help but laugh, stay away.Aero-Troopers
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