Paul Verhoeven has fashioned a visually spectacular, morbidly funny comic book adventure that seems to merge the fresh-faced youths of the Archie Comics with the save-the-planet mandate of "Buck Rogers.' Humans of a fascisticly militaristic future do battle with giant alien bugs in a fight for survival.
cast
Amy Smart as Cadet Lumbreiser Casper Van Dien as Johnny Rico Denise Richards as Carmen Ibanez Dina Meyer as Dizzy Flores Jake Busey as Private Ace Levy Neil Patrick Harris as Colonel Carl Jenkins
[first lines]
Newsreel announcer: Young people from all over the globe are joining up to fight for the future.
Soldier #1: I'm doing my part.
Soldier #2: I'm doing my part.
Soldier #3: I'm doing my part.
Young kid dressed up as a soldier: I'm doing my part too.
[Soldiers laugh]
Newsreel announcer: They're doing their part. Are you? Join the Mobile Infantry and save the world. Service guarantees citizenship.
This film had more sex and violence than any film geared towards kids before, and for that subversion alone it deserves respect. Yes it's a Paul Verhoven film, and yes of course it's better than Showgirls. Source: Ezthemes Size: (1780 Kb)
Starship troopers is a weird movie. Not weird as in "giant bugs want to take over the unniverse and we are first on the list" weird...that i can buy. It is weird because it uneasily balances two very different genres. First there's the "look at me , i'm so good looking" genre from 90210 and then there's the "let's kick some alien butt" genre from ID4.