Description: The new millennium brings man face-to-face with the deadliest enemy of all... an intelligent race of alien bugs. Young freedom fighter Johnny Rico and his comrades join the elite cadet flying school where you need to be tough to survive....
Description The new millennium brings man face-to-face with the deadliest enemy of all... an intelligent race of alien bugs. Young freedom fighter Johnny Rico and his comrades join the elite cadet flying school where you need to be tough to survive. When Buenos Aires, Johnny's home town, is destroyed by the bugs, an all-out intergalactic war begins...
Credits
Producer:
Alan Marshall, Jon Davison
Score Composer:
Basil Poledouris
Editorial Reviews "...Fascinating....Featuring astonishing effects and some of the most harrowing battle scenes in movie history..." Sight and Sound - p.53-4 - Andrew O'Hehir (01/01/1998)
"...Director Paul Verhoeven is back in his subversively nimble ROBOCOP groove with the uproariously cheeky STARSHIP TROOPERS" -- 4 out of 4 stars USA Today - p.2D - Mike Clark
"...The film's main events are its wild bugfights, with hordes of extraordinarily dynamic special-effects creatures....These bizarre marauders are really something to see..." New York Times - p.E14 - Janet Maslin (11/07/1997)
"...Director Paul Verhoeven is back in his subversively nimble ROBOCOP groove with the uproariously cheeky STARSHIP TROOPERS" -- 4 out of 4 stars USA Today - p.2D - Mike Clark (11/07/1997)
"...A letter grade would do a disservice to a movie that sees relentless entertainment and brilliant pop-culture fraud as two sides of the same media coin....The Most Ironic Hollywood Blockbuster Ever Made. See it for yourself and decide..." Entertainment Weekly - pp.104-5 (05/15/1998)