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Starship Troopers

R
Movie
1997
2h 9m
English
Adventure, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs".
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7.2
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Starship Troopers (1997) on IMDb
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62

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Casper Van Dien
Johnny D. Rico
Dina Meyer
Dizzy Flores
Denise Richards
Carmen Ibañez
Jake Busey
Private Ace Levy
Neil Patrick Harris
Colonel Carl Jenkins
Clancy Brown
Career Sergeant Zim
Michael Ironside
Lieutenant Jean Rasczak
Patrick Muldoon
Zander Barcalow
Seth Gilliam
Private Sugar Watkins
Rue McClanahan
Biology Teacher
Blake Lindsley
Katrina McIntire
Steven Ford
Lieutenant Willy
Ungela Brockman
Corporal Birdie
Bruce Gray
Sky Marshal Dienes
Denise Dowse
Sky Marshal Tehat Meru
Amy Smart
Cadet Lumbreiser
Dale Dye
General
Dean Norris
Commanding Officer
Marshall Bell
General Owen
Eric Bruskotter
Breckinridge
Matt Levin
Kitten Smith
Brenda Strong
Captain Deladier
Directed By: Paul Verhoeven
Written By: Edward Neumeier (Screenplay), Robert A. Heinlein (Novel)

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NotoriousX says...
9 years ago
How a gory, cliche filled, fascist dream can be so entertaining is beyond me, but entertaining it is... This sci-fi romp is HIGHLY underrated. Highly entertaining and actually thought-provoking in its own way, Starship Troopers delivers a couple of hours of entertainment you'll not soon forget. The script is loosely based on a book by renowned, sometimes controversial, sci-fi author Robert A. Heinlein, but deviates a lot from the book. If you have read it, you might be disappointed, but I doubt it... Recommended to anyone with even the slightest interest in sci-fi.
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justin says...
14 years ago
Nuke 'em!
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KurtMoney says...
6 years ago
Boy I expected more out of this given its reputation. It's too long. It takes forever to get to the good stuff. It has the older guy who dated Kelly on SBTB. On the plus side it has Ironside and Clancy Brown. I don't know...its a fun movie but didn't live up to its rep. UPDATE: I'd like to say that I was a real dumdum when I said the above stuff and now have seen the light on Starship Troopers and how it rules. Many thanks to the Action Boyz for helping me realize we got a perfect movie on our hands.
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player8472 says...
3 years ago
This is one of the best Scifi-Trash movies ever made! If you expect an ideal world in any sense or something to strive for, this movie is not for you. If you like to watch action in a Universe you certainly never want to live in, this is the movie for you. What I find most interesting rewatching it (again) in 2021 is that the special effects range from super crappy to amazing even by todays standards (The cheap explosions and the clearly fake hand in the famous knife-scene vs the bugs "artillery" firing at the ships). Sometimes they are even in the same frame so you can see cheap vs amazing at the same time which leads me to believe that they actually did it on purpuse (at least on a subconcious level).
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Featured User Reviews

AndrewBloom
6/10  9 years ago
Starship Troopers feels like a cross between Ender's Game and Dawson's Creek and Full Metal Jacket and Idiocracy and Star Wars and She's All That, which is to say that it feels simultaneously distinctive and unusual while also seeming fairly familiar and unoriginal.

But it's a gen More
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Jordyep
6/10  7 months ago
A movie that was misunderstood at the time of its release. Its balance of satire with action/sci-fi isn't too dissimilar from _Robocop_, so it was probably only a matter of time before it would get reassessed, but it's still a challenging film because it makes a lot of bold, out there choices. Gener More
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CallMeTrimTab
1/10  7 years ago
I essentially never give a film a 1 vote; even a very bad one. But this film takes one of the most powerful and historically significant works of science fiction, and quite consciously makes a joke out of it. Heinlein, in 1959, years ahead of his contemporaries, in one single small book, absolutel More
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dunpealhunter
9/10  13 years ago
Great movie, from one of the best and most famous directors coming out of the Netherlands: Paul Verhoeven.

I enjoyed watching the short promotion clips throughout the movie that depicted an at first sight utopian society, but if you look more closely its more like a fascist regime much like Nazi Ge More
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