In the sequel to Paul Verhoeven's loved/reviled sci-fi film, a group of troopers taking refuge in an abandoned outpost after fighting alien bugs, failing to realize that more danger lays in wait. Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation has a pretty small budget but also a pretty bad script as well since it looks cheap for the entire film. The perfomances were awful and just terrible as a whole alongside the characters of course plus the movie was released in 2004 so it makes sense why it looks so awful since it looks like a straight to dvd garbage like easily. (0/10)

It goes without saying that the original "Aliens 2" was probably the definitive humans versus animal killer; especially when that animal killer is predatory in nature and exists solely to infest, devour and conquer. The insects, or Arachnids as they are called in this movie series, are no exception. They exist solely to exterminate mankind, multiply and move on – they are here to vanquish anything that gets in their way and propagate their species. That said, this movie makes an interesting twist in the grand scheme of things. The original movie was a bit tongue in cheek, used humor plenty, and gore was often thrown around for comedy relief. Simple 'oops' moments happened when someone's home country was blown up for example. In this movie, the scenery has drastically changed and is closer to the computer generated special that aired around 2003. The genre seems to be a combination of many popular movie genres; but namely, you should see something that is familiar if you are a fan of Jurrasic Park, Alien vs. Predator and Aliens 2; there seems to be a little bit of humor thrown into here as well. However, unlike other movies of this type, there is also some hoard style themes going on – namely people are infected with insects and slowly become ravenous zombies out to infect their fellow officers and ultimately bring everything to the Earth homefront. If anything, this manages to accomplish what the original Star Trek's Borg where meant to be, before they were changed from insectoid to more humanoid cyborgs. Better still are the psychic references thrown throughout the movie.So if you are looking for a survival horror sci-fi flick that spans multiple genres, pays homages to things past, this is the movie for you. If you are looking for something strictly Starship Troopers, you may want to look towards the original movie or the computer generated sequels – this movie will NOT satisfy any Starship Trooper fan unless you want different story modes throughout.Originally posted to Orion Age (http://www.orionphysics.com/? p=2507)

I come here from having a very battered, much read paperback of Heinlein's Starship Troopers, and having watched and (I think) understood the Paul Verhoeven film.If you look at that film as wide angle view of the Human Vs Bugs war, giving you the background, an overview, and the situation, the technology, the sciences of the two enemies, and so on, then this is a very focused film.If you haven't seen Starship Troopers then this is just a often gruesome, gory - and occasionally very funny - film without much context. As such, it's not terrible, but it doesn't do much to help itself. It needs the context - as a standalone film it doesn't really live up to expectations.If you have the context, then it's a intense (and gory, gruesome, bloody) very focused part of a much bigger picture.And this is where we get to the spoilers. So if you don't want to know, and you have seen (and got) Paul Verhoeven's film, then I'd say watch this film, and don't read on.This is part of a plot to insert an "enemy within" into the Human High Command - and you can take that as literally as you want to - by having an isolated, small band of survivors get themselves rescued against overwhelming odds.I think it's quite well done, it's a fair bit more gory than the first film, so if you have a delicate stomach, this probably isn't for you.I just don't think it works as a film, by itself, in isolation. But as a small part of "Starship Troopers" - as a snapshot of a few days in an ongoing war, as part of a series, then I think it works far better than the rating (currently 3.5) suggests.Just don't be eating your dinner when watching it... And if you suffer from arachnophobia, then you probably aren't reading this anyway...

This is one of the worst movies I've seen, have nothing from the first movie (just some scenes stolen from it).It looks like you're watching an independent film, but bad in all aspects, bad acting, bad special effects, bad music that never fits with the scenes, unnecessarily excessive violence, bad plot... actually there is no plot, just a bunch of random people in a studio that looks like a garage killing insects...Boring, don't waste 90 minutes of your life watching this, Kelly Carlson nude don't worth it.This movie ruins the Starship Troopers franchise.