Starship Troopers Critic Reviews

This twisted space opera serves up carcasses in six-digit figures but is foremost a sendup for the ages.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

A spectacularly gung-ho sci-fi epic that delivers two hours of good, nasty fun.Read the full review

The film's special effects are astonishing, but the most notable and unexpected thing is its tone.Read the full review

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

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.Read the full review

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."Read the full review

Nothing like the sight of thousands of scuttling, hideous, practically indestructible insects crawling up the sides of a fortress, hellbent on destroying the human race. As they keep coming and coming, they’re the only things in this movie earning your money.Read the full review

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.Read the full review