In the distant future high school kids are encouraged to become citizens by joining the military. What they don't know is that they'll soon be engaged in a full scale war against a planet of alien insects. The fight is on to ensure the safety of humanity. Earth is united under militaristic organization called "Federation". Even in 4school students like Johnny Rico are thought about importance of serving to the Federation. On the surface atmosphere looks pretty relaxed, Johnny is dating beautiful Carmen, he has successful high school football career, loyal friends and rich parents. In the background Federation is in war with highly intelligent insectoid population that has colonized many worlds and are now trying to exterminate humans. Carmen decides to go to a school for a pilot in hope of commanding her own space ship one day and Johnny follows her not wanting to separate, but they eventually get separated in the line of duty when Johnny ends up in the Infantry and Carmen in the Fleet. When tragedy obliterates their home city of Buenos Aires, Johnny gets determined more than ever to put an end to the insectoid aggressor. Driven by hatred of the insectoids, and jealousy for Carmen's new boyfriend, Johnny strives to become one of the best soldiers Federation has ever seen… But "bugs" prove to be smarter and more resilient than he originally thought… It isn't every day that you see a studio let $100 million be spent on a film guaranteed to get an R-rating. Terminator 2&3, Troy and Gladiator are perhaps the only other films I can name that also match those characteristics. Starship Troopers was not a success at the box office, but it has done well in the DVD market over the years. It is a very good film with something for everyone, but it may be too gory for some viewers.<br/><br/>Our story centers on a futuristic society here on Earth who is at war with a species of giant insects on a distant planet. Our main characters are mostly young people who grew up in Buenos Aries, where apparently the English language and mostly white people will come to dominate the landscape one day. The society in which they live seems to have two classes of people. Citizens and Civilians. The citizens are people who have served in the military or in the government. We are led to believe that citizens are the upper class, but our main character comes from a civilian family and they seem to have a huge house, so it might not be such a bad thing to be a civilian, either. You do have to be a citizen to go into politics or things like that, though.<br/><br/>To impress his sweetie, our hero Johnny Rico enlists with her into military service. Too bad for him, because he only qualifies for the infantry, where life is tough and likely short in times of war. She is sent to flight school, and another of their friends qualifies for military intelligence. After an accident in training where one of his squad is killed, Rico plans to quit the military and go back home. However, he has no home to return to. The bugs have somehow sent a huge asteroid to earth and it obliterates… you guessed it… Buenos Aries. Now Rico decides to stay in the military to help wipe out these bugs. The rest of the film has a number of exciting battles and gory special effects to keep your interest.<br/><br/>Starship Troopers is a cut above most sci/fi films. Not only does it look fantastic, but it has some deeper philosophical motives. There is more to it than just the battles between humans and insects. We get an in-depth look at this militaristic and in some ways fascist society. The basic training footage is exceptional, and the story is narrated by a series of helpful newsreel type snippets that are always asking… "would you like to know more?" I always did.<br/><br/>Much has been made of the fascist nature of the society and the Aryan-looking cast. It didn't really bother me because Verhoeven's direction always keeps you focusing on the battles and the f/x. I'm betting the political issues of this film were a little more prevalent at the screenplay level, and glossed over more during filming. One thing that this film's satirizing of fascism keeps tripping over is the nature of the enemy they are facing. We've all been raised to despise fascism, but when it's humans vs bugs, you can't help but root for the humans even if they are fascists. Perhaps if their enemies looked more human like in Enemy Mine, it would have been harder to cheer for the Federation. But by the time this film was over, I was cheering right along with their propaganda films. I saw the film as a shoot'em up more that a satire.<br/><br/>The fact that this film didn't make a profit at the box office guaranteed that a good sequel would not have been made. I've not seen part 2, but I've heard it isn't good. I would definitely recommend Starship Troopers to anyone, though. It works on many levels, and it's sure to be a cult favorite for years to come.<br/><br/>One more thing about Denise Richards. The woman is too attractive to be anything more than a model. She looks so good that you can't even pay attention to what she's saying. As an actress, she'll always struggle, I'm afraid. Charlie Sheen must be the most picky man on Earth. I wonder what the problem was. Does she grind her teeth at night or something??? 9 of 10 stars.<br/><br/>The Hound. Ah. Paul Verhoeven, the wonderfully subversive director of 'Robocop' has yet again mocked our sensibilities with 'Starship Troopers.' Where in 'Robocop' Verhoeven satirized technological dehumanization and corporate fascism, 'Starship Troopers' satirizes world fascism and militarism. Verhoeven has taken the militaristic gung ho of 'Star Wars' and 'Aliens' and turned it on its ears, creating what is easily one of the goriest action adventure movies ever made, all the while lampooning the foolishness of it all.<br/><br/>After a bloody opening battle sequence on a faraway planet, 'Starship Troopers' flashes back to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to reveal how our heroes and heroines were suckered into their future military roles. Somehow, this seems appropriate, since the 'world federation' presented resembles NAZI Germany, right down to the uniforms and it's alleged many Nazis escaped to Argentina. Later, after a 'sneak' attack on Buenos Aires by the giant insects, vengeful humans stage a disastrous attack on the 'bug' planet. Director Verhoeven and writer Edward Neumeier brilliantly deliver the truth in a throwaway leading question by a reporter, that humans actually caused the aggression by invading planets already colonized by the bugs. This kind of misguided adventurism goes back in America at least as far as the French and Indian War. Nonetheless, it pretty much applies to one side or the other in every war in our history, including our present misguided operations in the Middle East. Verhoeven initially presents this in a kind of amalgam of World War II propaganda movies, Aaron Spelling soap operas and practically anything presently shown on the WB During the battle scenes, however, Verhoeven grosses us out with disembowelments, decapitations, burning alive and enormous puncture wounds during the mostly one-sided battles, with the bugs usually coming out on top. Ironically, the bugs are presented with superior battle technology, the result of adaptation, while the humans are pretty much stuck with 20th and 21st Century technology. After all, why would a civilization possessing starships be using bullets and not lasers? The most awesome weapon presented is nothing more than a mini nuke, such as the kind being presently proposed by the Bush administration. I believe Verhoeven was doing more here than cribbing from Jim Cameron's 'Aliens'. Besides making a wry allusion that the bugs may be in some ways to humans, Verhoeven was thematically commenting on the devaluation of human life. The federation was not providing leading edge weapons, armor or adequate air cover, because they really didn't care that much about individual soldiers. This should be pretty obvious by the bootcamp abuse, including Rico's "administrative punishment". 'Starship Troopers' were just so much cannon fodder. This is also implied in the sacrifice of Buenos Aires. After the starship is hit by the 'bug asteroid,' the ship's captain communicates that earth should be warn the asteroid is 'coming their way.' However, Rico's parents in Buenos Aires are not aware they are about to be hit, as this is made clear during his conversation to him by picture phone. Sounds like a 'communications failure' (Gee, where did we hear THAT before). The planets where troopers fight insects look like the middle of the Mojave Desert; in other words, uninhabitable for most humans, certainly not worth dieing for. The only things keeping 'Starship Troopers' from being totally realistic is the absence of Coke machines and Halliburton cheating the government.<br/><br/>'Starship Troopers' is the 'bad boy' among science fiction war movies. It's a great antidote for the syrupy romanticism of 'Star Wars'. It has better than average special effects, music, color and action. Performances are not nearly as bad as you've heard, particularly given Verhoeven's intent. You'll discover this if you watch the deleted scenes; they create a more intimate relationship between Carmen and Rico. Including these scenes would have made us care more about the characters, but I don't think that's what Verhoeven had in mind. <br/><br/>One piece of advice: save your snacks for after the movie. You've been warned. I give 'Starship Troopers' an '8'. Although none of the characters are fleshed out much beyond the comic book level, we nevertheless find our sympathies aligning with them. There are two songs, both performed by Zoe Poledouris (daughter of the film score's composer, Basil Poledouris). First, "Into It" was composed by Poledouris herself, and is available on the Starship Troopers soundtrack CD. The second song is a cover version of David Bowie's "I have not been to Oxford Town", with the word "paradise" instead of "Oxford Town". Zoe's version is unavailable; Bowie's original version is on his album "Outside". The Workprint is a pretty final cut of the movie. Some scenes, which focus on Carmen's love life have been removed for the Theatrical Release. In the Workprint it is clear that she sleeps with Rico, but after his supposed death shares some intimate time with Zander and finally gets back to Rico at the end. These scenes were removed because they caused a lot of animosity towards Carmen during test screenings(according to Paul Verhoeven, some viewers even asked him to "kill the slut"). Otherwise there are minor extensions/alternate scenes. Yes, Rasczak's provocative dialogue about Hiroshima has been cut out. Yes, and <a href="/name/nm0000682/">Paul Verhoeven</a> proudly confirms this fact on the commentary track of the dvd, saying that "everything you've heard about this scene is true".<br/><br/>Verhoeven wanted to show that equality between men and woman in the military had come to the point where they even shower together. For realism, he therefore demanded that the actors leave their modesty behind, and do the scene together and completely naked. However, the actors kept stalling and when Verhoeven kept insisting, they dared him to do the same. Without hesitation, Verhoeven and director of photography <a href="/name/nm0005911/">Jost Vacano</a> undressed and the scene was filmed. Yes and no. It is true that <a href="/name/nm0000682/">Paul Verhoeven</a> was interested in doing a sequel, so leaving the movie open-ended was partially intentional. However, Verhoeven intended the sequel to be a big-budget movie comparable to the original. Due to the somewhat disappointing box office result of <a href="/title/tt0120201/">Starship Troopers (1997)</a>, this idea was scrapped; the two sequels that have since been released were produced for the direct-to-dvd market on a significantly lower budget.<br/><br/>But more importantly, on the dvd commentary, Verhoeven explains that the final scene was primarily intended as a very cynical coda: it shows that Johnny Rico has become a full-blown mindless war machine just like Lt. Rasczak (he has even copied his war cry "Come on, you apes, you wanna live forever?") and that mankind still thinks they can win this war through superior firepower. In this context, the final tag line 'They'll keep on fighting' can be read as 'They still haven't learned anything'. Verhoeven admits that many viewers and critics entirely missed this subtext of the movie, and misinterpreted the final scene as a statement of militarism, or a simple allusion to a sequel. <ul><li>The novel features an all-male Mobile Infantry and very little actual combat is described, while the film focuses on heavy action scenes and the love triangle between Johnny, Dizzy and Carmen. The romantic subplot does not appear in the novel; The Mobile Infantry is an all-male unit and the character of Dizzy Flores is a male trooper who dies in the first chapter.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>The novel is told exclusively from Johnny's point of view, describing his hero's journey from indifferent high school student (Appreciation of Television is listed on his transcript) to elite cap trooper, and details the maturation process that entails. The film changes point-of-view focus between Johnny and Carmen (who in the novel never had any relationship beyond friendship).</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>The absence in the film of the power armor that was a central plot device in the novel, and had an entire chapter devoted to its description and use (the power armor was eventually used in <a href="/title/tt0844760/">Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008)</a>).</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>While the original novel has been accused of promoting militarism, fascism and military rule, the film satirizes these concepts by featuring news reports that are intensely fascist, xenophobic and propagandistic. Verhoeven stated in 1997 that the first scene of the film (a conscription advert for the mobile infantry) was adapted shot-for-shot from a scene from Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will" (an outdoor rally for the Reichsarbeitsdienst). Other references to Nazism in the movie include the Gestapo-like uniforms of commanding officers, Albert Speer-style architecture and the propagandistic dialogue. (Violence is the supreme authority!)</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>The Bugs in the film are portrayed as generally mindless insectoid beings, ruled and organized by an extremely intelligent overmind. However, at the beginning of the film, when Rico and Carmen dissect Arkellian sand beetles, the biology teacher states that the Bugs have millions of years of evolution behind them and are, in the case of survival capability, the perfect species. They have the ability to colonize planets "by hurling their spore into space" and possess a social structure which fits their mental capabilities. In the novel, it is established that the Bugs have spacecraft, beam weapons and other advanced technology, far from the mindless insects of the movie. The book also describes them as looking like "a madman's conception of a giant, intelligent spider." Interestingly, the book also reveals that the Bugs "see by infrared:" though pitch dark to human eyes, the underground corridors of a Bug colony are well lit when viewed by the infrared "snoopers" used by the Mobile Infantry. Bug society is based on a caste system in both the films and the book. In the book, the "Worker Caste" and the "Warrior Caste" are both mentally controlled by the "Brain Caste", which works on behalf of the "Queen" of each Bug colony.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>Johnny Rico (Juan) is Filipino in the book, although this isn't clarified until the final chapter. He specifies his native language is Tagalog and he suggests that there should be a starship named after Raymond Magsaysay (former President of the Philippines) due to his actions clearing Japanese soldiers from the Philippines in WWII.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>The characters of Mr. Dubois (one of his high school teachers) and Lieutenant Rasczak are separate individuals in the book (Mr. Dubois was a former MI Colonel before becoming a schoolteacher and at some point lost one of his arms; Lt. Rasczak is an able-bodied commander that leads Rasczak's Roughnecks before being killed in action).</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>Many elements from the book were used in the film, sometimes in a different context or way. These include: the book also opens in the middle of the story, and then makes a flashback to the beginning; Johnny's father disowns him after Johnny enlists in the army; school teachers trying to discourage students from enlisting in the army (a tactic to scare off applicants without sufficient conviction; Johnny Rico getting flogged as punishment for making a tactical mistake; Buenos Aires getting destroyed in a bug attack (which is a culmination of a string of earlier incidents with the bugs); Johnny's mother dying in the attack (but not his father, as is implied in the movie - in the book it turns out later his father also joined the MI following the destruction of Buenos Aires); the defeat at the battle of Klendathu.</li></ul> Its revealed later when Johnny, Dizzy and Ace are in the Roughnecks that Lieutenant Rasczak, who was Johnny's high school teacher, saved him, as Corporal Birdie says to Rico: "Who do you think saved your ass"? he was mistakenly listed as KIA (Killed in Action) as he didn't return with his unit during the general retreat. 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