Starship Troopers

Pros: Satire, Special Effects, Cinematography, Direction
Cons: None

“There will be wars and rumors of war…” Holy Bible ”Violence has resolved more conflicts than anything else. The contrary opinion that violence doesn't solve anything is merely wishful thinking at its worst!” Jean Rasczcak Director Paul Verho ...

Pros: Satire works most of the time; good effects
Cons: Not much fun after one viewing

When I was still in junior high school, back in 1978, I checked out a copy of Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers from Riviera Jr. High School’s library. At the time, I was very gung ho about science fiction, especially futuristic ...

Pros: It was not longer.
Cons: It was released.

I thoroughly enjoy movies – all kinds of movies. I have often stayed through the final credits when the rest of the audience disappeared during the first reel. In 40 years of movie watching I have only started watching two movies that I did not see to...

Pros: Good action,effects, satire.
Cons: Not the strongest cast of actors.

The events of StarShip Troopers (1997), loosely based on the novel of the same name by Robert Heinlein, take place in the 23rd century, as humankind has mastered interstellar travel and is pushing outward into the galaxy to colonize other worlds. ...

Pros: Action, special effects
Cons: Betrays the intent of the book, weak dialogue

Starship Troopers is a great, action-packed, shoot-'em-up, kill-the-bad-guys (bugs) science fiction adventure film with lots of great special effects. The battles scenes, both in space and on the ground, are graphic, complex, and exciting. It begins on ...

Pros: There are hordes of big scary bugs,
Cons: There are hordes of escaped animatronics pretending to act.

I snuck out of the house early this morning to make my way down to the salon for a consultation with Mr. Pepper, my personal stylist, as to how best to deal with my Salina singed scalp. I was in a bit of a foul mood for the tabloid, 'The National...

Pros: A Sci Fi special effects extravaganza.
Cons: A little too styalized.

Starship Troopers (1997) Directed by Paul Verhoeven, loosely based on the novel by Robert Heinlein. Starship Troopers is the story of Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien) a BMOC in the future Buenos Aires. The world of the future has one ...

Pros: Amazin' special effects. Lotsa violence.
Cons: Sweet Valley High Meets Andy Hardy meets a toothpaste ad.

NOTE: This review is for the newly released (Summer 2002) Special Edition Starship Troopers DVD, not the 1998 release. Got it? Good. Take my hand.

Bugs. Who but bugologists* could love them? They're ooky. All crawly and gross....

Pros: read the review
Cons: read the review

The mistake many "blockbuster popcorn" movies have made in the last few years is not incorporating a level of satire to make them lighthearted enough to enjoy. "Starship Troopers" tries to have it both ways by establishing a sense of satire which is ...

Pros: Stunning CGI, superb satire, and one marvellous running joke.
Cons: But this war is hell if you don't get that joke.

Imagine a stuffy projection theatre full of cynical studio execs. The lights go down and the picture fires up.
A futuristic soldier stands on the screen for a moment before suddenly being completely ripped to pieces by an alien arachnid.
Before...

Pros: anti-war
Cons: pro-war

Now out on video is a movie that addresses many of my concerns about the obsession of American culture with things military. This film not only depicts the mechanisms through which people come to adopt irrational attitudes in times of war, but also...

Pros: Nudity. Some cool action sequences. Interesting satire.
Cons: Not the right nudity. Redundant. Weak script. Poor acting.

Starship Troopers has been lauded in recent years for being a satire of American militarism. Indeed, it does have several satirical qualities-----watch the media scenes, and it's difficult not to be reminded of Fox News. Yet Ed Neumeier's frustrating ...

Pros: Special effects, Brutally graphic!
Cons: Acting, Plot!

Watching this movie it was clear to me that the special effects was going to be outstanding but, the acting was somewhere else. A movie about bugs trying to wipe out the human race sounds kind of interesting. That was it for the interesting part of the ...

Pros: Stupidity that will leave a big grin on your guilty face
Cons: Why couldn't Denise Richards played Dizz (you know what I mean...)

Premise- The world is being attacked by alien bugs from outer space. They attack Earth by shooting plasma out of their butt holes, and the plasma hits meteors, and then they hit Earth...Or something. Therefore, Earth must fight back with the "mobil ...

Pros: Special effects are spectacular, things go boom
Cons: Painful acting, painful script, painful direction. Turn the sound down.

I was having this conversation the other day with two highly intelligent friends, both of whom are highly versed in film. Their argument was that Paul Verhoeven, the fish and chips chumpwich that created Starship Troopers, Showgirls, and...

Pros: Creature special effects.
Cons: A conflict of intentions.

Starship Troopers (1997) is a guilty pleasure for me. I can't recommend it wholeheartedly across the board, but people in touch with their inner-fratboy might find it appealing.

One of many reservations I have with Starship...

Pros: An exciting science fiction action film on the surface; a devilishly clever social commentary underneath.
Cons: Extremely violent and disgustingly gory.

Paul Verhoeven (director of films such as Flesh & Blood, Robocop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, and Starship Troopers), is, in my opinion, a genius. Starship Troopers was adapted by screenwriter Edward Neumeier from a Robert A. ...

Pros: Special effects, pretty good performances, some good action
Cons: Character development, some plot holes, maybe a bit graphic for some

"Arachnids" and humans are at war, and "Johnny Rico" (Casper Vab Dein) has decided to join the military to fight the "bugs." Even though his parents, especially his father (Christopher Curry), object it and order him to go on vacation. He refuses, and ...

Pros: Snappy story. Good SFX. Doogie Howser in a Waffen SS uniform!
Cons: Weird Nazi-esque stuff. Nudity. Lightweight.

A magazine review of Paul Verhoeven's "Starship Troopers" described it as "What 'Star Wars' would have looked like if the Germans had won the war." (I think it may have been "Entertainment" but don't hold me to that.) They also refused to give it an ...

Pros: Great special effects/action sequences
Cons: A little cartoonish on some levels

There are quite a few people out there who seemed to find this movie a bit of a disappointment. Many tried to compare it to the book, not always a good idea, and found it lacking. The novel Starship Troopers is a Science Fiction classic, written by an ack ...

Pros: This improvement over Star Wars offers great action sequences and biting satire.
Cons: It also offers some terrible performances and dialogue.

At first, Starship Troopers comes across as painfully banal. Its cast is comprised of bland teen stars offering up howlingly bad dialogue (Casper Van Dien: "Aww, mom, don't get mushy on me"), its story line is mostly about blowing up...

Pros: Impressive CGI action sequences, some interesting political philosophy if you ignore the innuendo.
Cons: Bad acting, stupid premise, and a total travesty of one of the masterpieces of literary science fiction.

I might have enjoyed "Starship Troopers" more if I hadn't read the book first. As it was, the movie had its moments, but mainly it annoyed the heck out of me. While ostensibly maintaining Heinlein's political theme of a republic where service...

Pros: Awesome movie, great special effects, nice storyline
Cons: What was Rico thinking most of the movie?

Aliens, death, nudity, sex, what more could you want in a movie?

A great plotline?

Well that too.

This movie has it all, and packs it in without any extra time to get popcorn.

The cast is filled with many well...

Pros: Great, stupendous, mind-numbing action
Cons: If you don't like the above, save your time and money

Starship Troopers is a secret pleasure of mine. It is a completely worthless movie, lacking even a pretension of socially redeeming value, yet...yet it's really entertaining. And who can ask for more?

The flick is a very loose adaptation of...

Pros: Fun, action adventure
Cons: GORE extraordinaire

I really had no great expectations for this movie. I knew the era that the novel emerged from. We're not talking deep, philosophical fiction here, we're talking pulp sci-fi from the heyday of pulp-sci-fi. Starship Troopers could have been a comic...

Pros: good special effects
Cons: silly plotting, goofy characters

Starship Troopers is one of a kind. Can anyone think of any other film that has a G-rated intelligence, NC-17 rated violence and sexuality, and a Swiftonian satire for plot? Probably not.

The plot of the story is very simple. Since I've...

Pros: Really smart film.
Cons: You have to be smart to get it.

After reading epinions about Starship Troopers and even a New York Times review, I am fascinated that so many people missed so much in their opinions about this film.

Paul Verhoeven (Showgirls, Totall Recall) is not a director whose films are...

Pros: great fun
Cons: bad acting

The bottom line is that this movie is really cool. You know that it won't be praised by critics or win best picture at the Oscars, but you know that you will have a good time. This movie is just wholesome fun. This is the perfect movie to see when you...

Pros: Plenty of destructive action, amusing lines, some interesting social commentary.
Cons: Too violent for some.

Starship Troopers is by far the best movie based on a book I have ever seen. On the surface, this ...

Pros: Unintentionally Hilarious
Cons: Potentially one of the worst movies ever made.

Starship Troopers is one of those rare flicks that is so bad that it's actually entertaining to watch. Not entertaining for any reasons that the director, producer, or cast intended, mind you, but entertaining nonetheless.

A quick inventory...

Pros: Great violence and political inuendos.
Cons: No sequal.

Starship Troopers is one of my all time favorite movies. The underlying political ramifications of this film make it a must see for everyone that thinks they are above the rest in their citizenship quotient. The mere thought that you must risk your...

Pros: Big, dumb, cheesy cartoon for action fans, with a healthy slice of satire to keep it from being too guilty a pleasure.
Cons: Violence is very graphic, and may be disturbing to some viewers. Not appropriate for children, no matter how much they beg to see it.

The very first thing we see in "Starship Troopers" is a recruitment film. War has broken out between Earth and a distant race of gigantic insects, and the recruiters want us to "join now." It's time to go to the bugs' homeworld, and...

Pros: The mighty bust of Denise Richards
Cons: They're just BUGS!

It didn't surprise me to learn Starship Troopers was based on a '50s sci-fi book. I mean, this seems like a '50s sci-fi B movie, complete with laughably bad acting and cliche-ridden dialogue. Its main premise is that, in the not-too-distant future,...

Pros: Special effects, big war scenes
Cons: Horrible acting, dialogue, story, and ridiculous violence and gore

If Paul Verhoeven actually sat down, or anyone else for that matter, and thought about anything like story, plot, or dialogue I would be amazed. This is a completely stupid and pointless movie with horrible acting and dialogue.

The first...

Pros: Great special effects, some funny scenes, good fighting scenes.
Cons: They need to make a sequel, some things left unexplained.

Starship Troopers is based some time in the future, and is about 3 friends who graduate high school and all decide to join the military, which has now taken to space. The are all assigned to different sections of the military and end up being mostly...

Pros: "Star"ship Troopers is no doubt filled with hot "stars", great effects that make the film appear more believable, and a decent plot, making it a movie you can watch more than once. Fantasy, sci-fi, adventure, and a little bit of love -
Cons: drags out in parts, if you pay close attention to the commercials you can predict some things, ...maybe not everyone's kind of movie

This futuristic sci-fi flick deals with issues that inform the audience of why democracy and fascism fail or won’t work, the cruelty and sick, hard edge of war, innocence lost, ideology of a different age, and it being a superb thing to be a hero even...

Pros: Fantastic graphics
Cons: Killed too many main characters

I saw this flick cause I am a huge Heinlein fan. I either own or have read every single book, novela, short story or editorial in the Analog magazine or similar publications. The book he wrote that this movie is based on won a Hugo award for pete's sake!...

Pros: Excellent effects
Cons: Poor acting and dialogue, weak plot

Does anybody hear a strange whirring sound? It's Robert A. Heinlein spinning in his grave! This movie is almost the Worst Film Adaptation of a Sci-Fi Book in Recent Years (introducing: Battleship Earth), and I was disgusted by the lack of faith to a...

Pros: cast, characters
Cons: action, special effects, story, direction

Dutch director Paul Verhoeven has had great commercial success with cynical sci-fi action films. "RoboCop" (1987), "Total Recall" (1990), and now "Starship Troopers". All three films are more than a guilty pleasure....

Pros: Effects are good
Cons: Terrible writing, and plot

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I's gots'ta be to'n wid dis movie. De plot gots so many holes it be hard not t'trip on dem, but da damn effects is breadtakin'. Lets dig de baaaad stuff upside wid now, so cut me some slack,...

Pros: Decent special effects.
Cons: Lack of a plot and bad, bad, bad, bad acting.

All I have to say about my going to see this movie, that I knew was going to be bad, was that I really, really, really wanted to go the theater. I hadn't been in awhile and wanted to have fun. Little did I know what I was getting myself into. Thought it...

Pros: lots of action, good special effects
Cons: plays out like poorly written sci-fi

My first impression of this movie was, "this is the dumbest film I have EVER seen." After veiwing it for about the 20th time, however (it shows on HBO/Showtime/Cinemax et al about 5 times a day)it kind of grows on you. We meet our young...

Pros: Great special effects and story line
Cons: According to many its not like the book and a bit violent

When my husband originally wanted to see this movie I was bummed. I couldn't believe he wanted to make me sit through some stupid movie about bugs! BUGS! Of all the nerve I thought since he knows I can't stand creepy crawlies! However, I was totally...

Pros: Fun, Fun, Fun!!!
Cons: maybe too long

I must admit that every once in a while, I rent this movie and watch it again. I love it. It has a shallow plot, bad acting and still, it is a winner.

The effects are amazing, the action is all over the place. It is just pure fun. It is...

Pros: Superior Special Effects, Good supporting actors, effective satire
Cons: Primary actors can't act, plot is weak in the beginning

Let me start by saying that if you have the choice see the movie, then read the book. With that out of the way let me say this is a great movie depending upon the audience who views it. The younger generation will unfortunately watch it for the gore,...

Pros: Special effects kick any other movie in the rear end, future vision is great
Cons: Pretty bad acting, with exceptions

Woo hoo. (The song I had hoped would be on this movie's soundtrack, but ISN'T). But that's now what I'm here to write an opinion on.

To start off fair, I have not read the book "Starship Troopers". I plan on it eventually, but I...

Pros: Gore, action, and some awesome special effects.
Cons: More than I can name.

Pros: Plenty of action scenes
Cons: Unjustified bloodshed, horrible acting and directing

I must be one of the few people that just didn't see the point of this movie. Sure, it was fun. Yeah, I enjoyed watching limbs get torn off people. I even enjoyed watching people melt. There's a problem with that though, I shouldn't be...

Pros: The effects were kinda nice...
Cons: EVERYTHING else.

When Starship Troopers previews first came out, I thought, "Wow..this movie looks really cool. But can they pull it off?" I made it a point to go to the theater the first weekend it came out to see for myself.

Well....they didn't...

Pros: Better Than a Stick in the Eye
Cons: Lots of Gore/ Sort of Dopey

I was bored. There was nothing on TV. The honeymoon of cable seems to be nearly over. So, I asked my roommate if she had any videos. She returned with four, as she said, completely random choices. The first was a Christmas special. Ah, no. The...

Pros: Great Special Effects, Lots of shooting of bugs, TONS of fun
Cons: Not so hot plot, Average Acting, Dialogue seriously needs work

This movie is loosely based on the classic Robert Heinline Novel of the same name. By loosely I mean to say (and I have read the book) that they take a few themes and some of the names of characters and re-do everything for the movie. This movie is NOT...

Pros: Special Effects are well done
Cons: The story, the acting, the money you have to spend to watch it

I don't know what it is about the Sci-Fi thrillers that have come out in the last few years, but they are all effects and no substance.

The problem I'm having is that I spend $7.50 at the movie theater for a ticket, when I could have just...

Pros: good special effects, light on the seriousness
Cons: doesn't follow book,

I honestly think that whenever someone tries to review this movie, they hold it under a microscope because there is no way that it can be real. My advice to these people.... WHO CARES? So what if they are killing bugs on a different planet? I really...

Pros: lots of action
Cons: Violent!

Starship Troopers is a GREAT action film. It also contains a little romance, as does every film these days. The plot is basically a group of friends (More people are added to the group as the movie goes on) the enlists in a futuristic military. The goal...

Pros: hyper action, sly cynicism, good acting, affecting soundtrack.
Cons: killings (future war)

If pixels could speak in the chemical languages of testosterone and adrenaline, then this film would be the purest proof. It's an absolute trip.

The ultra-action, ultra-tense-density of this film affected me and my friends physically. We were...

Pros: after a few more films
Cons: Take no prisoners

There are so many good things in this film but, even though I liked it, I would not recommend it to anyone.

This is an honest effort at creating something different. The look and feel of the film is great. We get to watch raw recruits become...

Pros: Good soundtrack, AWESOME special effects, decent storyline, decent acting.
Cons: Kinda leaves the feeling that the story isn't finished... You never really get closure.

Overall I really enjoyed this movie... Granted, there were some fairly corny scenes. For example, in the war against bugs, everyone is doing their part... "I'm doing my part" as a bunch of kids stomp on cockroaches while a mother laughs with...

Pros: Sub-plots, Action, Courage, Humor & Special Effects
Cons: Flawed Science & Weaponry

I tried to write a comprehensive opinion on the movie “Starship Troopers”. It is very long and in depth. If you are not prepared to read the whole opinion and take this opinion in it’s full context, PLEASE DO NOT RATE THIS...

Pros: Great effects, typical ending
Cons: gory, a little too graphic; script is lacking

My husband got me 'sucked' into this movie, and honestly, I was disappointed in the story line. The effects were fantastic, but I think it would have been a better movie, overall, if they had put some of that money into the script.

The actors...

Pros: Believable adversaries, and real grittiness.
Cons: Violence not suitable for small children

Starship Troopers
This film is the long awaited screenplay based on Robert Heinlein's
book of the same title. The problem that had delayed the film for years
was how to make the bugs look real. With the introduction of more...

Pros: Stunts and special effects
Cons: 1 too many deaths

Johnny Rico and friends discover the difference between civilian and citizen in the movie based on the book by Robert A. Heinlein. In the future the planet is united. There are no racism or sexism issues, everything is coed.. There is space travel and...

Pros: nice special affects
Cons: shallow plot

I was at a party and one of the 2 movies rented was star ship troopers and Rush Hour. Everyone there wanted to watch starship troopers because of the gore. I new this was one of those movies where they slip in a love story that is all about sex. Of...

Pros: Glitzy production, good looking stars
Cons: No substance, bears little resemblance to original book

If you ignore the movie's namesake, you can probably enjoy the film as mindless Hollywood fun. But if you have read the original novel by Robert H. Heinlein, then you'll be bitterly disappointed by how Verhoven had distorted the classic sci-fi novel....

Pros: Man eating space bugs
Cons: It's kind of ... well, stupid

If you recall, when this movie first came out, the buzzword was fascism. Jack-booted Nazis! Government propaganda! It was all the critics could talk about. Naturally, I didn’t really remember Nazism as being a strong element of the story, so I...

Pros: Action Action Action
Cons: Not for little kids

The battle cry is on the lips of the entire human race "KILL THEM...KILL THEM ALL " This romp through the stars has got some of the best special effects around ,how the craftsmen put them together with live action was OUTSTANDING !!!! The bad...

Pros: Plenty of Action
Cons: The plot could have been a little more in-depth

This movie is a superb combination of special effects, and acting. It had a strong story line, and the plot was one of the best science fiction movies that I have seen. Casper Van Dien gives an outstanding performance as Rico, a tough high school...

Pros: everything gets shot
Cons: Its not Gone with the Wind

Here, Here to all the reviewers that wrote about this film from the standpoint of just having fun!!
I grow weary of people trying to find high moral or societal value in rip-roaring shoot'um up movies. They are what they are- mindless fun.

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Pros: Special Effects, Theme
Cons: Plot (I use that term loosely), Story relation to book

If you read the book, you might be disappointed. You might not.

Don't expect this to be anything like Robert Heinlein's book. It's almost a crime to film it in the name of the book, but I'm biased (My first name is Robert, and I really like...

Pros: Incredible FX & battle sequences.
Cons: Poor character development.

Starship Troopers is a two hour barrage of blood, brains, boobs, and bugs by director Paul Verhoeven (Robocop, Total Recall, and [ugh] Showgirls). Based on Robert Heinlein's 1959 book, this film is a war/monster movie set in a future where veterans rule...

Pros: Special effects, some good one-liners.
Cons: Terrible acting, doesn't do Heinlein justice.

My friend and I were in the theater in 1997 when we saw the trailer for 'Starship Troopers'. We heard the kickin' Blur ditty 'Song 2' and said to each other "Man, we've got to see this." I eventually saw it, and I must say I was both pleased...

Pros: excellent special effects
Cons: Gap in story line

I wanted to see this movie because I had read the book 15 years earlier.
The special effect were great. Unfortunately it did not reflect the real story of why the world look like a modern version of Nazi Germany, the book explain it quite well. The...

Pros: Great action flick
Cons: Some really dull subplots

Turn your brain off for this one!! It is a great ride through "Starship Troopers" originally authored by Robert A. Heinlein. Even though the script loosely follows the book, the overall feel is very close to what Heinlein was aiming at....

Pros: Machine guns. Lots and lots of machine guns. And Denise Richards.
Cons: Acting, plot, theme, pretty much everything not associated with explosions.

Although I am the 93rd reviewer or so of this movie, I'd thought I'd throw in my two cents in accordance with the biography I wrote last night. I found scanning the reviews here that reviewers either gave this film 1 star or 4/5, and I think that is ...

Pros: The enemy are bugs.
Cons: The commander of the Roger Young annoyed me.

This film is one of the best I’ve ever seen, hands down. It is based loosely on a book of the same name that was authored by Robert Heinlein. Fortunately, I managed to see it before reading the book or I might have been put off as others seem to have ...

Pros: Campy, action-packed, and often fun
Cons: Complete bastardization of a truly good, thought-provoking book

Okay, when this movie came out I was dying to see it. I am a big fan of the book, and when I saw the movie I was outraged. Here is why: Every time a book is made into a movie, some things have to be sacrificed due to limits on time, translation, or ...

Pros: Humor, Action
Cons: Cheese, Acting, lack of character development

The hero is in love with the popular girl at school. The popular girl is in love with some other hunk. The tomboy is in love with the hero. The hero wouldn’t realize that the tomboy is a babe if she stripped naked and jumped on him. The popular girl...

Pros: Some inapprobriate female nudity
Cons: It's 100% Crap

In the 1950's Robert A. Heinlein wrote the novel "
Starship Troopers. It was good story, taking the old tough D.I. turning boys into men saga into the not so distant future. The society he created, where the voting franchise is limited to military...

Pros: Naked women and stuff going BOOM!!
Cons: None really, this ain't Citizen Kane ya know.

I never wanted to see this movie. I usually really dig these shoot-em-up movies and if they happen to be in space, even better but for some reason this one just didn't look good.

Maybe it was the name, Starship Troopers just sounded cheesy....

Pros: hot actors/actresses getting naked, sex, blood, guts, soundtrack
Cons: too much gore for some people

This is definitely a guy movie. Other than Denise Richards, the main reason i saw this movie, there were plenty of deaths, explosions and alien guts.
Starship troopers was a decent movie, enhanced by special effects, characters, and an awesome...

Pros: Great plot, newsreels, Dina Meyer! Rrgglle!
Cons: They kill Dina Meyer off and let Denise Richards live, the bastards!

My dad rented this movie a couple of years ago, and it was pretty cool. Since then, I've seen it a few times.

I think one of the best ways to describe this movie in one sentence is this: A good theme song for this movie would have been...

Pros: has depth
Cons: sells out

Verhoeven’s savage satire on the glorification of war is to die for. It comes at you full force with the corniness of ‘doing your bit for your country/society’. All the bright young things who want nothing more than to join the military like some cool...

Pros: great action scenes, cool bugs and ships
Cons: bad storyline

Starship Trooper is based in the future where bugs in the Kendathu solar system have launched a astriod at the earth killing everyone in Beinos Aries. After this Earth decides to strike back at the bugs on their home planet. Earth send a huge fleet...

Pros: Great Period Sci-Fi Film
Cons: Most People Didn't Understand It

Starship Troopers is definitely one of my "Top Ten of All Time" movies.

First off, anyone who has a decent DVD player, surround sound system, and big screen (HD)TV should own this disc if for no other reason that it truly shows off...

Pros: It used up some of the writer's hopefully short life.
Cons: Pro-Fascist, Pro-Racist, Pro-War, TERRIBLE AND OFFENSIVE

This was a terrible, terrible movie. It centers around an intersteller conflict between Humans and some "bug planet" that is hurling meteors our way. The viewer follows the paths of three high school friends as they enter and work their way up...

Pros: Denise Richards
Cons: Everything but denise richards

This is a blight on sci-fi movies around the world. In essence a team of untalented producers and writers brough together some young actors who they thought would be appealing to teenagers and coupled them with a story line that anyone with two brain...

Pros: Excellent CG Animation, Actors Fit Roles Well
Cons: A Lot of Violence(?), Doogie Houser

This one falls into my 'not so bad on first watch' and 'gets better after I watch it a few times' categories. I went to watch this movie after first reading about it in Sci-Fi magazine. It looked interesting. I've always been interested in movies...

Pros: Gender f**k, pretty people, funny scenes
Cons: Graphic violence, unbelievable

The soap-opera look of the characters in this movie are at odds with their kick ass personalities, in the same way that the gratuitous violence contrasts with the high school love drama. What a great job the filmmakers did of pulling off this collection...

Pros: Great military and sci-fi themes
Cons: Misses some points from the book

Am I the only one who noticed that this movie seems to be a lot like the old commercials shown on the History Channel from World War II. I love the campy propoganda and gratuitous gore. This movie was great, however I believe that it kind of missed a lot...

Pros: Wonderful effects-Doogie the telepath-and great action
Cons: mild acting-predictable-and bland dialouge

In 1998 Starahip Troopers came out. It drew me to it with its flashy special effects and the story it was based on. Neil Patrick Harris, Casper Van Dein, and Dina Meyer star in a fast paced action thriller. The effects were spectacular.
...

Pros: None
Cons: Violent, useless, boring, dumb, mindless

If you like senseless, plotless and mindless films, than you sure as heck will enjoy this movie. The film's plot revolves around two things. The first being violence and death. The second being a teenage Soap gone seriously wrong. The romance plot...

Pros: Sci-fi camp done with quality.
Cons: Lots and lots of gooey bug guts!

This is a film I only watched by chance -- I thought it was something else. Here is one of those flicks you won’t believe anyone would really enjoy. Also, I think you may have to be a little different in the sense of humor department, but I qualify...

Pros: I cannot possibly fill this space in with one good word
Cons: The cartoon version is much more entertaining

I'm a huge fan of sci-fi and was completely aghast by this movie!

I am just thankful I didn't spend $8 plus dollars seeing it at the movie
theater!

Bad enough myself and a group of friends picked this movie out for some late...

Pros: Nothing really stands out...
Cons: Everything else...

Even taking in to consideration that the movie is trying to be a sci-fi campy movie it is too much to take. I mean aliens that shoot explosives out of their nether regions that can take down not only space ships but also small cities on Earth. I mean how...

Pros: Nothing, Hilarious at times
Cons: Bad Acting, Poor Plot, Bad Effects

I saw this movie because my friend recommended we watch it. The plot was so devastatingly bad, that I will just say that it dealt with friends growing up and fighting aliens in different fields (space, army, government). Although the premise could have...

Pros: Everything is superb about it.
Cons: It ended.

Finally, a movie that does justice to Heinlein. The effects have finally begun to catch up with imagination. A devoted fan, I was hesitant to see any more adaptations after The Puppet Masters and Stranger in a Strange Land. These two didn't require...

Pros: realistic combat, good effects
Cons: needs more of the book.

I really enjoyed this movie because it really showed how overconfident we are, and what happens when we let that get to our head. I enjoyed this movie because it made alot of good points about society in general. The storyline was very well done and...

Pros: none
Cons: no plot, bad acting, a through waste of time

Oh, how to begin. It is a good thing that I first saw this movie at home because I would have walked out of the theater and demanded my money back. It was so bad it was funny. What a disappointment...There are so few good science fiction movies.
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Pros: Effects
Cons: Good acting....not great acting

I watched this movie expecting good special effects and nothing else. What I got was a bug blasting joy ride!

I will keep this simple and sweet. I hear a lot of people talking about the glorifying of war. The way I see it is war is real, it...

Pros: The future benchmark for all Science Fiction movies
Cons: None you can't forgive or overlook

I LOVE this film, I LOVE this book, I LOVE this soundtrack. There is nothing about Starship Troopers I have ever found disappointing.

The book is one of the very few that I had read and went straight back to the start to read it again. So I...

Pros: Deeper underlying meaning; fantastic Special effects
Cons: Little character development leads to empty feeling after movie ends.

Starship Troopers was known for one thing, and that was the gore.
However the main meaning of the movie was lost due to that. This movie
is a social...

Pros: Some really hot actresses, nice sex scenes, very funny
Cons: Casper van Dien

'Ahh 'Starship Troopers'..this should fulfil my urge for senseless violence movies on a Friday night!' I thought to myself as I looked at the TV guide. What I got was exactly what I was expecting. Senseless violence! And plenty of it!! Aside from this,...

Pros: Great special effects.
Cons: Everything else blows dead apes!

Yes, I know that this movie is a parody on military propaganda, yes I know it was meant to be more c ...

Pros: Graphics, acting, edge of the seat action
Cons: Gory,not for everyone,Personal interaction from the book sacrificed for the action.

The thing that bugged me was that the movie was much more into the fighting of the bugs than following the book and character development.(Pie with a fork ).It is an excellent movie and the effects are amazing,but this movie is *not* for the squeamish.If...

Pros: Good storyline.
Cons: Bad acting and didn't follow story well.

I saw this movie because i had read the fabulous book. I thought the movie had very good graphics and was funny at some times, but sad at others. And also the acting was horrible but the storyline closely followed the book. Also, the suits and...

Pros: Good action, political satire, subtle tongue-in-cheek humor
Cons: Bad acting, corny plot, horrible dialog

Ok, the movie has bad acting, horrible dialog, and a corny plot. Many people might feel cheated of their money afterwards. Then why the positive review? Well I think this movie is way misunderstood.
First of all, there are some good action...

Pros: Impressive Graphics
Cons: publicity

I am lucky I ever saw that movie. I saw a commercial for it ONCE. That's it. Most of my friends and family had never heard of it before I mentioned it to them. I don't know what they did wrong but they didn't advertise it enough. I don't like science...

Pros: everything about this movie is good
Cons: nothing

This movie, is THE movie, and i love it. The music is great, and the acting is good to. This movie has some of the best special effects i've seen for along time! If i were to recommend this to people, it would be to the age group of 14-30. watch the...

Pros: A woman removes her top
Cons: That woman is not Denise Richards

I rented this movie for two main reasons. First, I saw that it was not only rated R, but it was staring one of the hottest women of my lifetime, Denise Richards - so I was hoping against hope that Denise would remove her top in this movie (I had to end...

Pros: -
Cons: -

This is a response to Andrew Hick "Starship Troopers an overall embarrassment"

Hollywood is Hollywood!
Almost every movie from Hollywood has love scenes, not all of them contains naked girls! Just because Ms. Richards doesn't...

Pros: It is a good movie
Cons: none

The movie is an action packed movie. the movie also tells about the lives of an army man and his freinds. It is great graphics and also hit the world like no other. The movie captured my heart. It was a sad movie and it tells about life can be a real...

Pros: all good
Cons: none

This is arguably the best sci-fi movie ever made. The plot was good and so was the acting. Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, and Denise Richards all did an excellent job at acting in this movie. Basically the plot was a couple of high school graduates...

Pros: Exciting adventure, special effects
Cons: Too violent for children

As a 53 year old mother of one, I am not the typical target audience for this movie. However, my son brought it home and I watched it with him. Not being the squeamish sort, I enjoyed the movie very much.

I consider it an updated World War...

Pros: the movie is great
Cons: the main character has bad plastic sergery

Now I don't see how any teenager could not like Starship Troopers, its got every thing: action, drama, romance, nudity, and lots of violents. If people say its not good for children and it causes them to do things like kill people I say if it does that...

Pros: Extremely great graphics and a great storyline
Cons: None come to mind

I have never seen a movie with such amazing graphics and action. Not only does this movie rank high in my All-Time action movie list, is gets a better rank with it's terrific storyline.

Director Paul Verhoeven, who brought us films like...

Pros: Science fiction looking good
Cons: long movie

Starship Troopers is the most confusingest movie I've seen. When I saw the trailers, I had a different idea, but when I saw the movie I was confused. Anyway, the movie was good, has awesome special effects. The bugs are so life like, at least until...

Pros: everything
Cons: none

well i like science fanasty movie if you want to label movies. i liked the special effects and how it works within the movie. just think that bugs can have a mother brain and warriors and all that and they can kick our ass really bad that's cool to me....

Pros: Great movie, Special Effects
Cons: Some say, the acting... I disagree.

Big insect-like creatures from outerspace are trying to destroy the earth. Being the future (no set time), the human race has the technology to fight back. This movie is jam packed with amazing special effects, action like you'll never believe, Denise...

Pros: way cool special effects
Cons: the way the characters looked /Carmen :(\

"Starship Troopers" was one of the best films of 99'. The special effects kicked major ass! I liked everything except the fact that Reco looked like a Ken dall. Carmen on the other hand well she pretty but she has something wrong with her...

Pros: the special effects and character development
Cons: it gets a little hard to believe

Starship Troopers is not just another shoot-em-up action movie. What makes this different from every other "attack" action movie is that it actually bothers to take the time to give the characters personality, that is they are not stale...

Pros: Someone at least tried to make a movie of this book
Cons: They failed dismally

If you have read this book -RUN AWAY! If you have not read the book and are hoping for insight into this movie from my review, read the book, don't watch the movie. Rarely have I been so disappointed by a book to movie conversion. (Judge Dredd came a close second, but the special effects were fairly cool in that movie) The book is a rollicking read and quite compelling in many ways. The movie was the biggest bunch of drivel ever.. please.. spare us any future efforts like this. Even with a group of friends and a bunch of beer, I would not recommend this movie- really, it's that bad!