Starship Troopers 2 “Hero of the Federation”
I had no idea this was out, apparently it went straight to video. Anyone see it already? How was it?
Even worse the the first one. Total schlock, without even quality boobage to look for. Gouge your eyes out before watching this.
I read a review on this and wondered why they even bothered. Apparently, they didn’t have a big enough budget to include any of the big bugs, so there’s a couple of shots with them in the beginning, and the rest has to deal with mind-controlled humans fighting in underground tunnels.
What’s the point of the movie if you don’t have the giant bugs?
I saw it, it had a good amount of footage of big bugs.
Care to elaborate a bit more on the movie? Like, was it any good? 
The first movie had the whole “There’s an important message here, folks!” going for it that helped make all the camp fun and tolerable. I don’t see how they can pull this off here, so if they try to make it campy like the first, I can see it being a huge dissappointment.
But if turns out to be like a live action version of Roughnecks, it might be worth it.
I didn’t care much for the first movie, so my caring even less for the sequel is likely meaningless.
Elvis, what part of “total schlock” didn’t you understand? 
To call the acting “wooden” would be an insult to trees everywhere. The “plot” was cliched, and the casting was idiotic. A total waste of plastic. You would be better served watching paint dry.
Here are some Amazon.com opinions -semi stinkeroo
This guy kinda sorta liked it and it has the most detailed description of the plot.
Apparently the budget was only 6 million dollars, while the original’s was 100 million. That’s tooth fairy money in movie production land, I’m surprised they even bothered
Hey, one man’s schlock is another man’s fork in the eye. I was wondering if it was intentional or not this time around. Shitty movies are always more fun to watch when the actors in them know that they’re doing a shitty movie, in my opinion. Some people get more pleasure out of it when the actors think they’re making a serious film and are actually trying to do a good job, just failing miserably. I’m curious as to which way this film leaned towards, that’s all.
For some reason, they showed this on one of the movie channels - Starz or one of the Action channels or something - about a month before it even came out on video. I had never heard of it at that time, either, so I decided to watch it. Unfortunately, I can’t unwatch it.
There really wasn’t much to the plot. It was more like a generic slasher movie than anything else: some gore, everyone gets picked off one by one, etc. It bore little resemblance to the first movie (aside from the bugs), although they tried to tack on the little mini-propaganda pieces to the beginning and end, but they came off as pretty contrived. All in all, it was a waste of effort, I think, both in making the movie, and in watching it.
Apparently my browser’s won’t let me even look at the official web site. From the other posts, I think I’m the luckiest of all of you.
I saw about half of it on cable a couple weeks back, then I went to bed. You can tell they didn’t have a budge to speak of because all the bugs look bad, the entire thing was shot in the dark to cover up the lack of a set, there were no stars to speak of and it wasn’t even interesting.
The first one, as bad as it was, is at least fun to watch in a campy way. This one didn’t even have that.
Oh, and I saw the plot “twist” coming as soon as the guy started eating the suger cubes.
I hadn’t even heard about it until we saw a blurb for it on TV, the day before it came out on DVD. I casually mentioned that I’d kind of like to see it, and my jem of a wife rented it the next day.
The f/x were between adequate and decent.
My wife especially liked the giant bug zapper.
The plot was a real nose-pincher.
[spoiler]The first movie followed the book at least a little - whether by or despite design I don’t know. This one? At the end of the book, the Federation has all but won the war, and is only holding off on nova-bombing Klendathu because there are humans being held prisoner on the planet. In this movie, we find that we’re five years into the war and that humanity is this close (holds finger & thumb a skillionth of a whillimeter apart) from destruction.
As soon as the general shows up with the three troopers, my first thought was “they’ve got bugs controlling them. Nah, too obvious.” Damn my optimisim.
I was pleasantly surprised in one thing: the esper lt (who’s name escapes me) actually managed to stop being a dick. Of course, he back-slid at the critical minute, spent too much time gloating and got his throat cut for it.
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My biggest bitch about this flick (aside from the 1 dimensional plot) and the first one is that the people making it have no idea of how the military works. Unloading into an incredibly hostile lz? Let’s all run off the shuttles as a screaming mob!
I actually rented this pile.
I liked the book and the roughnecks cartoon and I thought the first movie was decent (although a mockery of Heinlein, IMO) and I thought “eh, I’ve had to have seen worse” so I picked it up.
The plot was a thoroughly abused sci-fi plot. I was remarkably unimpressed by all of the major plot features. I winced at some of the acting, especially from the ‘Hero’. I mean, I defy Hollywood to pump out a character more formulaic then the ‘Hero’.
silenus-There was some good boobies IIRC, that blonde number that ran around nekkid wasn’t bad.
Got ya beat - I saw it as soon as the general showed up at the outpost w/the three “lost troopers” in tow. Of course I told myself that I must be mistaken, because it was too obvious. (not sure which smilie to put in here)
I actually had a passing thought that this sort of thing would happen when the part about the brain bug was mentioned in the beginning of the movie (IIRC). I can’t really claim to seen the plot twist at this point though because the passing thought was related more to my just having played ‘X-Com’ then to actually watching the movie. I thought, well, there are probably going to be new ‘aliens’ in this one, what if one of them takes control of people…
By the time of the sugar cubes I was smaking my head with my head because it was so obvious.
I saw part of it when Aveguy was watching it. It might have had a chance if they toned down the over-enthusiasm a bit. What made Starship Troopers the First so hilarious was the seriousness that it contrived to have.
As an example: The Federal Network announcements made with exclamation points undermined the style of humor they were trying to emulate. “We’re fighting the bugs!!! Come everybody, let’s fight!!” is very different from the solemn announcements from the first ST: “To fight the bug, we first must understand the bug.” and “The only good bug is a dead bug.” Campyness has it’s own dignity, and this movie failed to achieve it.
I still want one of those Mobile Infantry flags, though.
I propose a perpetual ban on any SF movie or TV show where the alien bad guys take over, or can disguise themselves as, humans. I am so tired of this cliche that I would rather have the “aliens” wear gorilla suits and diving helmets.
Starship Troopers 2: Electric Bug-aloo
IMO Starship Troopers is the worst mainstream SF movie that’s ever been released. You couldn’t pay me to Watch ST2.