Starship Troopers is based off the famous Sci-Fi novel by Robert A. Heinlein but takes its own path from the book, in this film version written by Robocop Co-Writer Ed Neumeier and directed by that film's director Paul Verhoeven it is the near future and bugs are the great threat to humankind from the planet of Klendathu but service in the military guarantees citizenship in the Federation and its these brave men and women of tomorrow that will take to the stars and defeat this evil menace, would you like to know more?
"Would you like to know more?" is a key line in this film and its used very well to keep the audience interested in the films plot rather than just its good special effects work in terms of the bugs itself which are rather good and you do get a sense of satisfaction of not only seeing them blow up real good (though you do wish the humans would use better guns to blow them all sky high before they tear them all limb from limb) but also seeing them tear the humans apart during the battle scenes.
But apart from that, the film is also so much fun to watch and its anchored by a great cast combining young and old actors from Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards in possibly her only good part, Neil Patrick Harris (yes that one) and Jake (son of Gary) Busey to the older crew such as Clancy Brown, Michael Ironside, Rue McClanahan in a small role, Brenda Strong all of these people and more do a great job plus there's a great script by Neumeier, great direction by Verhoeven and a terrific score by the late Basil Poledouris which combines the WW2 and Patriotic aspects beautifully.
But the main reason this film is so much fun is that it knows exactly what it wants to do, which is be an old fashioned 1950s B-Movie with an A-Movie budget, okay the central romance sucks the diddly but hey the rest of the films pretty good.
All in all, this is a very fun film that is easily worth a rent, 4 out of 5.
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