| Starship Troopers 2 : Hero of the Federation (2004)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
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| Bill Brown |
Pvt. Ottis Brick (as Billy Brown)
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| Richard Burgi |
Capt. V.J. Dax
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| Kelly Carlson |
Pvt. Charlie Soda
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| Cy Carter |
Pvt. Billie Otter
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| Tim Conlon |
Fleet pilot (as Tim Conlin)
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| Sandrine Holt |
Pvt. Jill Sandee
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| Bobby C. King |
Smiling lieutenant (as Robby C. King)
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| Ed Lauter |
Gen. J. G. Shepherd
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| J.P. Manoux |
TSgt. Ari Peck
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| Lawrence Monoson |
Lt. Pavlov Dill
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| Colleen Porch |
Pvt. Lei Sahara
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| Brenda Strong |
Sgt. Dede Rake
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| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Action; Adventure; Horror; Sci-Fi |
| Director |
Phil Tippett |
| Producer |
Jon Davison |
| Writer |
Edward Neumeier |
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| Audience Rating |
R |
| Running Time |
88 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
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| Plot |
| Allowing for all the low-budget shortcomings that plague any straight-to-video production, Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation serves up 92 minutes of passable sci-fi action. Parlaying his veteran status as an animator, special-effects wizard, and stalwart survivor of the CGI revolution, Phil Tippett (with returning screenwriter Ed Neumeier) makes a woefully uninspired directorial debut with this makeshift sequel to Paul Verhoeven's 1997 blockbuster, retaining the jarhead militarism of Robert Heinlein's original novel while serving up more bugs, an all-new cast of attractive young stars, and all-too-familiar plot elements borrowed from a dozen better movies. "Bigger is better" is out of the question under such meager budgetary circumstances, so Tippett and Neumeier compensate with gruesome bugfights and gross-out effects at regular intervals, some standard-issue nudity, and escalating paranoia (echoing Carpenter's The Thing) when a new breed of bugs use human hosts (à la The Hidden) to overtake a stranded platoon of Federation soldiers on a bug-infested planet. Relying on murky confinement to hide nondescript sets, Troopers 2 has three engaging leads in its favor: TV regular Richard Burgi is solidly cast as the titular hero (he's the military equivalent of Pitch Black's Riddick); Colleen Porch is engaging as the most sensible Federation survivor; and screen veteran Ed Lauter makes the most of his salty role as a battle-hardened general. Unfortunately, they're adrift in a knock-off sequel (shot on high-def digital video) that could never do justice to its energetic predecessor. --Jeff Shannon |
| Personal Details |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| In Collection |
Yes |
| Links |
IMDB
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| Product Details |
| Format |
MPEG |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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