Starship Troopers

In the future, a fascist military state wages a war over resources with a foreign race they consider to be ugly and barely sentient. Naive young men and women are bombarded with propaganda and recruited to "save their world", but discover that sacrificing life and limb is a lot more painful than any of the promotional videos ever promised.

Brilliant war satire and comedy dressed up as over the top coming of age B grade sci-fi, Starship Troopers goose steps across our screens again tonight on M-Net Action.  Watch the impossibly square-jawed grunt Johnny Rico (Casper Von Dien) strap on his futuristic neo nazi armour and take on swarms of vicious Arachnids.  Whilst heads and limbs are sent flying in the gruesome encounters on the planet's surface, overhead perky young starship pilot Carmen Ibanez (Denise Richards) dodges unique anti-aircraft fire: searing fireballs squeezed out of the anuses of giant lumbering bugs. 

Hilariously over the top, Starship Troopers pokes fun at every aspect of war and the blatant propaganda that  permeates it.  Mostly misunderstood during its release in 1997, this is one of those rare movies that gets better with age, taking on new relevance in light of the world events post 9/11.


Starship Troopers explodes in gory delight tonight on M-Net Action at 22h10