Starship Troopers

USA 1997, 129 minutes
Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Rating: [R16]
Genres: Science Fiction / Fantasy, Futurism

Aroview: ROBOCOP man Verhoeven's 'ironic' take on Robert Heinlein's 1959 novel about a totalitarian future society whose perfectly toned young 'citizens' wage an enthusiastic war with alien bugs.

Though tech-heads will marvel at the exhaustive CGI effects on display, the insectile enemy are a bland mob, and Verhoeven is just too much of an admirer of gung-ho culture to be an effective satirist. This party-poop view, though, continues to fall on deaf ears...

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4 stars (Very Good) If the Nazis ran our world in the future, this would be their propaganda piece de resistence. It's a sick joke, I know, but it gives this tale of Ken & Barbie Killing Bugs a horribly funny, knowing edge to the shamelessness on display. Best CGI ever, too ~fairbrother
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3 stars (Good Enough) Original - Enjoyable with great creatures. Starship Troopers 3: pretty routine fare (2 stars). ~Tubbs
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4 stars (Very Good) ~Wyatt Earp
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4 stars (Very Good) Casting perennial villain actors Michael Ironside and Clancy Brown as the inspiring father figure characters while putting Doogie Howser MD in a Gestapo uniform helps explain why this movie failed in the USA and succeeded in Europe. ~Pearce