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Starship Troopers

Starship Troopers (1997)

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Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 58
Fresh: 36 | Rotten: 22

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

60

Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 15
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 6

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

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67

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Average Rating: 3/5
User Ratings: 196,038

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Movie Info

Director Paul Verhoeven (Showgirls, Total Recall) reunited many from his 1987 Robocop team for this $100-million science fiction adventure, adapted from Robert A. Heinlein's 1959 novel, originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (October-November, 1959). After graduation, Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien) volunteers for the Mobile Infantry to do his Federal service -- but also to win over his girlfriend, Carmen Ibanez (Denise Richards), who has signed with the Fleet Academy

May 19, 1998

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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All Critics (70) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (40) | Rotten (22) | DVD (39)

Lacks the courage of the book's fascist conclusions.

May 29, 2002 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comment
Salon.com
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Lacking the sophistication of the average comic book, it compensates with panoramic attack sequences, reminiscent of the Japanese swarm attacks in American war movies.

April 12, 2002 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
Globe and Mail
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A jaw-dropping experience, so rigorously one-dimensional and free from even the pretense of intelligence it's hard not to be astonished and even mesmerized by what is on the screen.

February 14, 2001 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comments (3)
Los Angeles Times
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Terrific entertainment.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | Comment
Sacramento Bee
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The action sequences are heavily laden with special effects, but curiously joyless.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comments (5)
Chicago Sun-Times
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Massive, hilarious and thrilling. I went to lunch a few times with a girl who despised this movie. I was forced to conclude that she's not very smart.

July 25, 2011 Comment
ÜberCiné

Gory, scary, violent sci-fi is too intense for kids.

December 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

"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."

April 6, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | Comments (18)
ColeSmithey.com

...boasts a tongue-in-cheek, downright campy sensibility that ultimately pervades every aspect of the proceedings.

August 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

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

August 6, 2008 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | Comment

...wonderfully corny in all the right ways. (Blu-ray Edition)

August 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

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

August 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

Are these ever mean bugs!

May 9, 2007 Full Review Source: Houston Community Newspapers | Comment
Houston Community Newspapers

More effective as a satire than as an action extravaganza.

June 20, 2005 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | Comment
Lessons of Darkness

Now, because this is a Superbit release, you're trading in your usual cadre of bonus features for souped up audio and video. Every firefight is a new experience and the transfer is amazing.

September 11, 2003 Full Review Source: Needcoffee.com | Comment
Needcoffee.com

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

March 18, 2003 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Starship Troopers

The epitome of the cheesiest 90's action movie of all time. The entire tone, acting, style, and script was so cheesy that no gratuitous amount of blood, or "cool" looking action scene was able to redeem this junky movie.

March 24, 2012
Albert Kim

Super Reviewer

Starship Troopers is one of those films that blends elements of Science Fiction, horror and comedy. The film is directed by Paul Verhoeven, director of Robocop. Starship Troopers is a visual feast on the eyes as a war between bugs and humans wages on. The film is heavy on special effects and it has a heavy dose of

July 10, 2010
TheDudeLebowski65
Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

Super Reviewer

    1. Johnny Rico: I'm from Buenos Aires, and I say kill 'em all!
    – Submitted by Adrian G (7 months ago)
    1. Johnny Rico: What do I want a tattoo for?
    – Submitted by Adrian G (7 months ago)
    1. Dizzy Flores: My mother always says that violence never solves anything.
    – Submitted by Mariëlla P (9 months ago)
    1. Jean Rasczak: I wonder what our brothers of Hiroshima would say about this... you.
    2. Carmen Ibanez: They probably wouldn't say anything. Hiroshima was destroyed.
    3. Jean Rasczak: Correct.
    – Submitted by Mariëlla P (9 months ago)
    1. Carmen Ibanez: But man created art, mathmatics and interstellar travel.
    – Submitted by Mariëlla P (9 months ago)

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