Starship Troopers

Name: Starship Troopers
Released: 1997-11-7
Cast: Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris

Starship Troopers

R
2h 9m
1997

63%

age 17+

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From the bridge of the Fleet Battlestation Ticonderoga, with its sweeping galactic views, to the desolate terrain of planet Klendathu, teeming with shrieking, fire-spitting, brain-sucking special effects creatures, acclaimed director Paul Verhoeven crafts a dazzling epic based on Robert A. Heinlein's classic Sci-Fi adventure. Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Muldoon, and Michael Ironside star as the courageous soldiers who travel to the distant and desolate Klendathu system for the ultimate showdown between the species.

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Producer:

Writer:

Cast:

Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris, Clancy Brown, Michael Ironside

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

63%

Critics Consensus: A fun movie...if you can accept the excessive gore and wooden acting.

Reviews

Espinof

John Tones

The background of all this is one of the most openly satirical films of a director who has never l...

One of the very best satires of the 1990s, if not beyond.

It's still a dumb movie with pretty, wooden actors, but 20 years on Starship Troopers has more amb...

In its early scenes, 'Troopers 'is basically a goofy high school movie, complete with love triangl...

Common Sense Media

age 17+

Common Sense Says

Gory, scary, violent sci-fi is too intense for kids.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this combat-themed sci-fi flick uses hideously violent human-alien warfare, with people gorily impaled, scissored apart, slashed, whipped, crushed, and shot (there are "friendly fire" and mercy-killing casualties). One topless sex scene and a topless coed shower scene. Swearing is amusingly PG-level mild, given the ferocious mayhem. The heroine has a vomiting fit and beer is guzzled. The surface glorification of military life and culture here is satire; Earth's "good guy" Federation resembles a fascist state with Nazi-inspired regalia and public executions.