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Starship Troopers (1997)

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Reviews Counted:53

Fresh:32

Rotten:21

Average Rating:6/10

Consensus: A fun movie...if you can accept the excessive gore and wooden acting.

Runtime: 2 hrs 10 mins

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Synopsis: Dutch director Paul Verhoeven (TOTAL RECALL, ROBOCOP) mixes big budget bug bashing with twisted satire of old Hollywood movies in this adaptation of Robert Heinlein's classic sci-fi novel. It's the... Dutch director Paul Verhoeven (TOTAL RECALL, ROBOCOP) mixes big budget bug bashing with twisted satire of old Hollywood movies in this adaptation of Robert Heinlein's classic sci-fi novel. It's the future, Earth is at war, and the kids are all going off to fight giant killer bugs on the remote planet of Klendathu. Casper Van Diem, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer, and Patrick Muldoon play some of the blandly attractive young recruits who engage in soap-opera style love triangles as they toughen up and learn to fight (and die) like soldiers. Michael Ironside is their gung-ho, one-armed leader. The real stars though, are the superbly animated bugs. Packed to the rafters with jaw-dropping special effects and insane violence, the film managed to be a box office hit though it undoubtedly left some audiences confused at Verhoeven's slyly deadpan humor. By the time Neil Patrick Harris (TV's Doogie Howser) starts marching around in a Gestapo-style uniform, for example, it will be apparent this isn't STAR WARS. What it is however, is a rousing experience for mature viewers in the properly ironic frame of mind. [More]

Starring: Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey

Starring: Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris, Clancy Brown, Seth Gilliam, Patrick Muldoon, Michael Ironside, Rue McClanahan, Marshall Bell, Eric Bruskotter, Matt Levin, Blake Lindsley, Anthony Michael Ruivivar, Brenda Strong, Dean Norris, Christopher Curry, Lenore Kasdorf, Tami-Adrian George, Teo, Steven Ford, Ungela Brockman, Curnal Achilles Aulisio, Greg Travis, Bruce Gray, Denise Y. Dowse, John Cunningham, Julianna McCarthy, Timothy McNeil, Robert David Hall, Brad Kane, Amy Smart, Timothy Omundson, Patrick Bishop, Hunter Bodine, Travis Lowen, Patrick Wolff, Mara Duronslet, Dale Dye, Michael Stockey, Tyrone Tann, Matt Entriken, Eric DaRe, Ronald L. Botchan, Walter Adrian, Stephanie Erb, Alexi Lakatos, Nathaniel Marshall, Austin Sanderford, Rhiannon Vigil, Mylin Brooks, Armand Darrius, Kai Lennox

Director: Paul Verhoeven

Director: Paul Verhoeven
Screenwriter: Ed Neumeier
Story: Robert A. Heinlein
Composer: Basil Poledouris
Producer: Jon Davison, Alan Marshall

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Reviews for Starship Troopers

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06/24/06
Derek Adams
Derek Adams
Time Out
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It is pure Verhoeven -- broad, brash and ultraviolent, and all up there on the screen.

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01/01/00
Ian Nathan
Ian Nathan
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01/01/00
Ian Waldron-Mantgani
Ian Waldron-Mantgani
UK Critic

"Starship Troopers" is a war satire that outshines even Kubrick's great film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."

Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
04/06/09
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
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11/05/08
Todd McCarthy
Todd McCarthy
Variety
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...boasts a tongue-in-cheek, downright campy sensibility that ultimately pervades every aspect of the proceedings.

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08/11/08
David Nusair
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

Insanely subversive...functions as a visually dazzling science-fiction action picture, a philosophical challenge, and a hilarious, incisive comedy. [Blu-Ray]

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08/06/08
Peter Canavese
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews

Paul Verhoeven's satiric, 1997, sci-fi, war-movie romance is admittedly an acquired taste.

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08/03/08
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

Are these ever mean bugs!

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05/09/07
Gary Brown
Gary Brown
Houston Community Newspapers
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04/16/07
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

More effective as a satire than as an action extravaganza.

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06/20/05
Nick Schager
Nick Schager
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04/09/05
Robin Clifford
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07/06/04
Dragan Antulov
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05/20/03
Jim Shelby
Jim Shelby
Palo Alto Weekly

Utter stupidities and other scientific impossibilities litter the script like trooper body parts . . . [yet] the film does something right

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03/18/03
Brian Mckay
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02/08/03
John R. McEwen
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11/06/02
Jeff Strickler
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
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10/15/02
Margaret A. McGurk
Margaret A. McGurk
Cincinnati Enquirer

What galls me is the film's marketing, moral and ideological cynicism.

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09/22/02
Robert Roten
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope
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09/10/02
Kevin N. Laforest
Kevin N. Laforest
Montreal Film Journal
 
 
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