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DVD
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC
Actors: Billy Brown (II), Richard Burgi, Kelly Carlson, Cy Carter, Tim Conlon
Allowing for all the low-budget shortcomings that plague any straight-to-video production, Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation serves up 92 minutes of passable sci-fi action. Parlaying his veteran status as an animator, special-effects wizard, and stalwart survivor of the CGI revolution, Phil Tippett (with returning screenwriter Ed Neumeier) makes a woefully uninspired directorial debut with this makeshift sequel to Paul Verhoeven's 1997 blockbuster, retaining the jarhead militarism of Robert Heinlein's original novel while serving up more bugs, an all-new cast of attractive young stars, and all-too-familiar plot elements borrowed from a dozen better movies. "Bigger is better" is out of the question under such meager budgetary circumstances, so Tippett and Neumeier compensate with gruesome bugfights and gross-out effects at regular intervals, some standard-issue nudity, and escalating paranoia (echoing Carpenter's The Thing) when a new breed of bugs use human hosts (à la The Hidden) to overtake a stranded platoon of Federation soldiers on a bug-infested planet. Relying on murky confinement to hide nondescript sets, Troopers 2 has three engaging leads in its favor: TV regular Richard Burgi is solidly cast as the titular hero (he's the military equivalent of Pitch Black's Riddick); Colleen Porch is engaging as the most sensible Federation survivor; and screen veteran Ed Lauter makes the most of his salty role as a battle-hardened general. Unfortunately, they're adrift in a knock-off sequel (shot on high-def digital video) that could never do justice to its energetic predecessor. --Jeff Shannon
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| More Meat for the Grinder... |
| Customer Rating: 2 out of 5 |
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My Rating: 1.5 out of 5
The Good Things
*One or two neat special effects and action scenes.
*Some blood and nudity for those who enjoy that sort of thing.
*Remains mostly true to the concepts of the first movie.
The Bad Things
*Very low-value production. Many special effects, props, and sets look completely fake.
*Dull photography.
*The storyline is dull, uninteresting, and doesn't really continue with anything from the first film.
*For that matter, it plays out more like a horror flick than a military sci-fi war movie.
*The characters are dull and uninteresting. Acting and writing are dull.
*Probably not for the squeamish.
What can I say? This sequel is immensely unremarkable, forgettable, and dull. I doesn't even resemble a "Starship Troopers" movie; it's more like a really bad version of "Alien" or something. It's good for maybe one or two thrilling scenes of blood, nudity, or sub-standard special effects. But for the most part, this is a dud.
The DVD has okay video and sound quality, and contains a few featurettes. The Blu-Ray version is a little better in quality, but has a lot of graininess in some parts.
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| Not terrible, but no good either |
| Customer Rating: 2 out of 5 |
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This movie is not terrible. It is just a very bad sequel to an admittedly poor original film. Clearly the budget was very limited, so all the money went on what little special effects there were - and those effects were I guess, OK. What is wrong is just the whole way this movie was put together. You know a movie is bad when you notice the editting. Some scenes simply end, the screen goes black and 3 or 4 seconds later, another unrelated scene starts. Unanswered quesions just lie there and wriggle, like maggots in a carcass. Why did only one of the bad guys get nekkid? ( OK because she was the cutest, silly me ). Why was one of the soldiers a coward? How did one soldier revive herself only to blow her own brains out before she could tell Dax what the heck was going on? Why did Dax kill his commanding officer? Why did the bad guys at first seemingly cooperate against the bugs? Why was only one guy some kind of incubator? What was the thing with the fingers all about? Why does private Soda go all vampiric on the General's posterior, while the others never exhibit that behavior? Were we, or the good guys really supposed to see the significance in the bad guys all of a sudden having a sweet tooth? Or should that be "sweet teeth"?
Why was this ever made?
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| Really Bad Movie, I Like To Pretend That I Didn't See it! |
| Customer Rating: 2 out of 5 |
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No joking, this is a very bad movie and not worthy of being called "Starship Troopers". The original movie, Starship Troopers, was a great movie and very watchable. Don't waste your time on this one.
Not recommended at all!
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| RE Every bit as bad as we say! Fans of the original beware! |
| Customer Rating: 1 out of 5 |
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Well, aside from everything James A Bell said about this movie. I would just like to add that there is one thing he left out. Bad actors none of the original cast from the first Starship Troopers was in the second one. And the actors in this film sucked, I highly doubt any of them got to be in many other films at all. However, on august 8th of 2008 I look for the third Starship Troopers to be better cause at least it will have the actor of the main character from the first one.
And on my final note, now that I have seen this movie I totally under stand why it is in the $5 dollar box at Walmart.
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| Terrible |
| Customer Rating: 1 out of 5 |
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Those few people who rated this above 2 stars must have been on some kind of hallucinogen. They rehashed the Ships captain from the original movie ( The one that gets crushed under a door) and hoped we wouldn't notice. The First movie was excellent, but this was boring, poorly shot and poorly written. Fortunately Starship Troopers 3 is coming out soon and it seems promising.
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