3.5/4  "The only good bug, is a dead bug!!"
This is without a doubt, the greatest B-Movie of all time. You have the unlikely (yet obvious) hero (Van Dien), a damsel who ends up in distress (Richards), a minor foil to the hero and the damsel's inevitable love on both ends (Muldoon pu... (read full)

2.5/4  Almost, but not quite perfect
"Arachnids" and humans are at war, and "Johnny Rico" (Casper Vab Dein) has decided to join the military to fight the "bugs." Even though his parents, especially his father (Christopher Curry), object it and order him to go on vacation. He ... (read full)

3/4  Starship Troopers
Even though it's too light for a science fiction film, I liked it a lot. The political messages here are obvious but they ring true, especially in today's world. There were some extraordinary special effects here for a film that was releas... (read full)

4/4  Do YOU Want To Be A Citizen?
Okay this is the ONLY space/war movie that I will EVER see that will come anywhere CLOSE to my love for Ripley's second bout with the Xenomorphs in Aliens. I loved everything about this movie. From the opening to the very last scene I was ... (read full)

0.5/4  Starship Troopers Quick Review
I love science fiction. I love fantasy. I love space , adventure, war, and robots movie. I enjoyed it, but... I still don't like starship troopers. Why? I don't know, maybe because the sequel was so bad.

0.5/4  Starship Troopers Quick Review
Not that I'm the biggest fan of Verhoeven, but I really love Robocop and Total recall. This movie, though, sucks. And don't start the "it's a parody" thing. Because it sucks on every genre. Is not funny and also stupidily disgusting.

3.5/4  Starship Troopers Quick Review
This is one of those films that's easy to dismiss, but if you look under all those special effects, there's actually an engaging story. Is there a message underneath all those bug guts? Survey says - yes. And they still have fun with it.

4/4  Starship Troopers Quick Review
With a hot cast, incredible special effects (that hold up very well today), a solid intergalactic story, and some great one liners, this one is hard to pass up. The key is the world it creates in the short time. The music is good as well.

3.5/4  Starship Troopers Quick Review
This movie took a couple times to grow on me, now I can't get enough. Its cheesy, news broadcasts and cut scenes never let the action get too serious but it keeps it really fun and light hearted to watch. Great Action!

4/5 This is a so bad it's good movie.
  by Beej Powers (Burke, VA United States)
This movie is almost NOTHING like the book it is based on. It's a Paul Veerhoven explosion of ideas all thrown into the blender and set to frappe. It is chock full of bad acting but has great effects. Love it or hate it, you must own it.
Also it looks and sounds great on Blu

4/5 Humans vs. Bugs
  by Jim Gateley (Sunnyvale, CA)
4 stars of 5 for this classical sci-fi movie. Yeah, I've seen Starship Troopers lots of times. It is a unique story with great characters and well produced. This is a really fun sci-fi movie to watch. Great special effects and a nice future look. As always, my only complaint is why send ground troops with under-powered weapons to attack the "bugs" without air support? Oh, well. I do recommend this movie.

4/5 Troopers shines brighter in blu-ray
  by Marvin Gozum (Phila, PA USA)
There are a plethora of reviews of the movie, but my review is mostly a comparison of the BD vs DVD version. Troopers has more pluses, but the BD version does highlight flaws more that were less noticeable in DVD.

I can now discern details on the actors make-up, such as battle injuries, that are no longer realistic. The CGI lacks texture and resolution, some battle cruisers look like toy models others like CGI, and I can discern the difference between CGI insects or set models. Some insects had obvious spray paint, and remind me of the toys you'd buy at a Discovery Channel store or a museum gift shop. The video was a bit grainy, as I had my BD player set for high sharpness, and I was able to select a less sharp setting to reduce this artifact. Actor's clothing no longer looked space-age, but the material seemed somewhere between WalMart and Lands End. Note, the better BD programs, such as Brad Pitt's Troy or HBO's Band of Brothers, is so well made my fine setting does not create such artifacts.

The audio is clear and sharp but lacks imaging, so the effects do not use 5.1 sound to great effect.

Disk extras are identical to the DVD version, and in DVD quality. The BD-Live supports picture in picture, and what it does is play commentary with video simultaneously with the main movie, but in a tiny PIP. It hardly does anything more that had the commentary audio track played simultaneously, like in the DVD.

Many BD player manuals state clearly you need external memory, usually an SD card or USB drive, to run BD-Live. Knowing that ahead of time, my disk ran without a hitch, but it took over 1 minute to boot longer than none BD-Live disks. I simply put whatever SD card I had lying around, a 32MB card ran fine, but maybe it needs more to run speedier. Note, if you remove the extra memory the disk will not boot.

While BD-Live seems like a nice addition, I find the software and game like capacity it provides crude compared to any DVD or online game, thus its more annoying than a benefit. These extra features never really caught on in the DVD world, so I am not hopeful for BD-Live.

BD is best as a high quality movie transport medium, so I hope makers focus on this and make all video on BD disk as best quality available as the main movie, and pay less attention to the effects that we see in BD-Live.





5/5 Guess I need to read the reviews!
  by Albert J Campanoli
Starship Troopers (+ BD Live) [Blu-ray]

Just received copy number 3 and Dito - it didn't load/play. Really felt like a "Dolt" for not reading the reviews. Like all the other folks we've got about 100+ Blu-ray movies and this is a first. My complaint is - "Amazon.Com" should read the reviews as well and tag the product when there's a glitch. All they had to do is direct me to the reviews and I'd have either returned the original or proceeded on. Used a 250MB flash drive and a USB cable from my digital camera accessories used to download the memory card to my computer and - "Bingo"

What a movie addict won't go through for his entertainment.

4/5 Awesome, After Getting It to Play on Sony S350
  by James Durtschy
It's just what I was looking for, since I lost my non blu-ray Starship Troopers. I was really surprised by the great picture quality, since some older movies I've seen on blu-ray don't seem to be that much better than the standard DVDs. The movie is released by Sony.

I thought it was defective at first too, it loaded and all I saw was a black screen. I had to look on the internet to figure out how to play it. That was lame. But on my blu-ray player Sony BDP-S350, I had to put a USB drive in the back of it, which is how you extend the memory on that model. Don't know how much it needs, but I put a 2 GB drive in and that worked for me.

If you like the movie, I'd recommend getting the blu-ray. You surely won't be dissapointed with the quality.