Starship Troopers (1997)

• Year: 1997
• Released: 07 Nov 1997
• Country: United States
• Adwords: Nominated for 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 16 nominations total
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120201/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Starship_Troopers
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/starship-troopers
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
• Runtime: 129 min
• Writer: Edward Neumeier, Robert A. Heinlein
• Director: Paul Verhoeven
• Cast: Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer
• Keywords: based on novel or book, dystopia, creature, soldier, satire,

	7.3/10
	51/100
	66% – Critics
	70% – Audience

Starship Troopers Storyline

Earth is united under militaristic organization called “Federation”. Even in 4school students like Johnny Rico are thought about importance of serving to the Federation. On the surface atmosphere looks pretty relaxed, Johnny is dating beautiful Carmen, he has successful high school football career, loyal friends and rich parents. In the background Federation is in war with highly intelligent insectoid population that has colonized many worlds and are now trying to exterminate humans. Carmen decides to go to a school for a pilot in hope of commanding her own space ship one day and Johnny follows her not wanting to separate, but they eventually get separated in the line of duty when Johnny ends up in the Infantry and Carmen in the Fleet. When tragedy obliterates their home city of Buenos Aires, Johnny gets determined more than ever to put an end to the insectoid aggressor. Driven by hatred of the insectoids, and jealousy for Carmen’s new boyfriend, Johnny strives to become one of the best soldiers Federation has ever seen… But “bugs” prove to be smarter and more resilient than he originally thought…

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Starship Troopers Movie Reviews

You want to live forever? Well, you won’t!

If “Starship Troopers” isn’t the most epic science-fiction movie ever made, then I don’t know what is! What is that you say? “2001: A Space Odyssey”? “Star Wars”? Well, perhaps, but they aren’t nearly as entertaining as Paul Verhoeven’s extravagant, unhinged and excessively violent dystopian saga. This film is probably the most cynical, yet simultaneously the most straight-faced parody in history. Look closely at the FedNet propaganda, the Aryan lead characters and their costumes, the careless sacrificing of the Infantry forces… This futuristic battle set in 2197 is a replay of WWII, but somehow Verhoeven succeeded in making us root for the fascist party! I honestly don’t think there is much to write about “Starship Troopers”, except that it’s nearly perfect and brilliant from every possible angle. After the already amazing “Robocop” and “Total Recall”, Verhoeven reached the ultimate in genius Sci-Fi. It’s all there: the F/X, the humor, the cast, the bloodshed, the scenery, … The only things you have to add yourself are beer and popcorn.

“We’re In It For the Species”

Starship Troopers has become one of my favorite science fiction films because of the uncompromising way it looks at pure unadulterated evil.

Make no mistake about it, the evolved arachnids are unadulterated evil and they are that because they view the rest of the galaxy as a feeding ground. There’s no co-existing with them, understanding them, or dialoging with them. It’s humans or arachnids, it’s that simple. The society that evolved to meet the challenge understands that perfectly well. As Neil Patrick Harris so admirably put it, he’s in the military for the survival of the species.

Evil is a hard concept for the civilized mind to wrap itself around and those that do understand it, a lot of times tend to be monotheist in their religion and can’t communicate it to nonbelievers because they wrap evil in a discussion of why their particular faith is the only method to combat evil.

A better question to ask about the futuristic society of Starship Troopers is to ask is does the fascist society that evolved on earth the only way to combat the arachnids. The concept of citizen and civilian is an interesting one that the film brings out. One serves in society and gains the franchise to become a citizen by going in some kind of national service.

We’re a lot closer to that than one might think. Look at voting in the USA. We are so balkanized with one party districts that it is close to impossible to unseat and incumbent. The voter participation in general elections is low enough, but party primaries where the issues are really decided have a minuscule participation. All of the resources of the body politic are geared towards getting these ‘prime’ voters out and for your particular candidate. In a very real sense they are the elite citizens in our system.

I do like the fact that their seems to be a complete equality of the sexes, no one has any hangups about people’s sexuality and their ability to do a job.

I liked the performances of the young people of this new world a lot. I’m surprised that Casper Van Dien’s career didn’t rocket off after this film and his appearance as Tarzan. This looks like it will be his career role.

I liked Dina Meyer best however as Diz who is carrying a statue of liberty size torch for Casper. Casper was brave, but he certainly was a little dense in this film.

It’s probably a good thing that it took almost 40 years after Robert Heinlein wrote the novel for this to get to the screen. This could never have been done back in the day. The computer generated special effects are awesome.

Starship Troopers for all the faults in the society that has evolved is about nothing less than a future greatest generation who rose to meet a challenge of pure evil and saved mankind.

The ultimate sci-fi war epic

Being a massive fan of Paul Verhoeven’s work, I was very pleased to be able to see this in the local cinema – where the BBFC kindly decided to award it a 15 certificate! The decision was later changed to 18, and its easy to see why. Along with ROBOCOP and TOTAL RECALL, this makes up the Dutch director’s gore trilogy : science fiction actioners packed with as much extreme violence and gruesomeness as possible! Verhoeven has a bigger budget around this time, so nominally sets about filming a serious Robert Heinlein ’50s sci-fi story. Instead the film turns out to be an epic, action-packed cartoon adventure ride, with cardboard characters and a whole lotta mayhem going on! Verhoeven also has time to satirise those gung-ho American characters but the whole thing is performed with such a love and sense of humour that you can’t help but settle back and enjoy the ride.

The special effects are out of this world and make STARSHIP TROOPERS one of the best effects films I’ve watched. The future is portrayed in a subtle way and seems real, even the battles in outer space. The aliens themselves are only CGI, but it’s good CGI – especially those huge beetle bugs that crawl outta the ground to burn the enemy! The action comes thick and fast and is loaded with extreme gore. Numerous decapitations, people being impaled, burned, and all sorts of nastiness. The sickening ‘brain sucking’ climax really pushes things over the edge a la Peter Jackson. Verhoeven takes a moment to reference the British classic ZULU with a nail-biting siege attack, whilst a period at boot camp sees trainees being flogged, knifed, and having their arms smashed for failing! It’s not hard to see the similarities to the Nazis, down to the uniforms and the trench coats, so you get to snigger as well as enjoy the action.

The acting is the one weak spot of the film, with Denise Richards and Casper Van Dien absolutely terrible as the clear-cut, one-dimensional young, beautiful heroine and hero – but maybe that was the point??! Otherwise we have solid support from the always reliable Jake Busey (making his dad Gary proud) and Doogie Howser himself, Neil Patrick Harris, as a member of the SS! Old pros Clancy Brown and Michael Ironside are on hand to supply the toughness. The film goes on a long time without losing focus, although the ending does seem to be a little abrupt in retrospect. Nevermind – this is a humorous, gruelling, ultra-violent, sometimes sick, always exciting war film like never before!