Starship Troopers

3.50
    Starship Troopers
    1997

    Synopsis

    Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs".

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    Cast

    • Casper Van DienJohnny D. Rico
    • Dina MeyerDizzy Flores
    • Denise RichardsCarmen Ibañez
    • Jake BuseyPrivate Ace Levy
    • Neil Patrick HarrisColonel Carl Jenkins
    • Clancy BrownCareer Sergeant Zim
    • Michael IronsideLieutenant Jean Rasczak
    • Patrick MuldoonZander Barcalow
    • Seth GilliamPrivate Sugar Watkins
    • Rue McClanahanBiology Teacher

    Recommendations

    • 83

      Entertainment Weekly

      The movie is sensationally exciting, but its hey-kids-let s-put-on-a-war! story line plays like Beverly Hills, 90210 recast as a military-recruitment film for the Third Reich.
    • 75

      ReelViews

      Although none of the characters are fleshed out much beyond the comic book level, we nevertheless find our sympathies aligning with them.
    • 50

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Faithfully represents Heinlein's militarism, his Big Brother state, and a value system in which the highest good is to kill a friend before the Bugs can eat him. The underlying ideas are the most interesting aspect of the film.
    • 50

      Christian Science Monitor

      Paul Verhoeven's movie takes more action than ideas from Robert A. Heinlein's 1959 novel, which is just as well, considering the book's goofy suggestion that military veterans should control society from top to bottom.
    • 50

      The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

      The word "arachnid," as it's said so contemptuously in the movie, begins to sound suspiciously like "Iraqi," and indeed, we soon see the elite bugs are hunkered down in their desert fortress, resisting the mighty air assaults of the Federation. The conclusion of our story involves unearthing the chief bug.
    • 50

      Los Angeles Times

      What Ed Neumeier's script provides instead is a cheerfully lobotomized, always watchable experience that has the simple-mindedness of a live-action comic book, with no words spoken that wouldn't be right at home in a funny paper dialogue balloon. Not just one comic book either, but an improbable and delirious combination of "Weird Science," "Betty and Veronica" and "Sgt. Rock and His Howling Commandos."
    • 40

      Dallas Observer

      What makes the claptrap in Starship Troopers so flabbergasting is that it's monumentally scaled.
    • 40

      The New York Times

      Pretty actors, grisly critters, brains sucked out of skulls, buckets of green slime and a plot that is half beach blanket bingo, half Iwo Jima.

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