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Starship Troopers (DVD)

Casper Van Dien (actor), Dina Meyer (actor) and Paul Verhoeven (director)

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Review

Box Office, 01/01/1998, p.47, "...Entertaining, engaging, exciting....With game, energetic, winsome performances...and effects that live up to the hype..."

New York Times, 11/07/1997, p.E14, "...The film's main events are its wild bugfights, with hordes of extraordinarily dynamic special-effects creatures....These bizarre marauders are really something to see..."

USA Today, 11/07/1997, p.2D, "...Director Paul Verhoeven is back in his subversively nimble ROBOCOP groove with the uproariously cheeky STARSHIP TROOPERS" -- 4 out of 4 stars

Sight and Sound, 01/01/1998, p.53-4, "...Fascinating....Featuring astonishing effects and some of the most harrowing battle scenes in movie history..."

Entertainment Weekly, 05/15/1998, pp.104-5, "...A letter grade would do a disservice to a movie that sees relentless entertainment and brilliant pop-culture fraud as two sides of the same media coin....The Most Ironic Hollywood Blockbuster Ever Made. See it for yourself and decide..."

Product Quotation/Excerpt

"Would you like to know more?"--a slogan that appears frequently in newreel clips

"Violence has resolved more conflicts than anything else. The contrary opinion that violence doesn't solve anything is mearly wishful thinking at its worst!"--Rasczak (Michael Ironside) to his students

"Everyone fights, no one quits. If you don't do your job, I'll shoot you myself."--Rasczak to his troops

"You see a bug hole, you nuke it!"--Rasczak to his troops

"M.I. does the dying. Fleet just does the flying."--Rico (Casper Van Dien) referring to the downside of being in the mobile infantry

Release Note

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
2-Disc Set
Disc One:
Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary - 1. Paul Verhoeven - Director, Ed Neumeier - Screenwriter
2. Paul Verhoeven - Director, Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Neil Patrick Harris - Actors
Isolated Score with Commentary by Composer Basil Pouledouris
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Selection
Text/Photo Galleries:
Filmographies

Disc Two:
Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Additional Release Material:
Featurettes: 1. DEATH FROM ABOVE
2. KNOW YOUR FOE (Special Effects)
3. THE STARSHIPS OF 'STARSHIP TROOPERS'
4. Making Of
Deleted Scenes (5)
Special Effects Comparisons (9)
Storyboard Comparisons (3)
Scene Deconstructions with Commentary by Paul Verhoeven (2)
"Johnny" and "Carmen" Screen Tests
Bug Test Footage
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Selection
Text/Photo Galleries:
Conceptual Art Galleries

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
2-Disc Set
Disc One:
Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary - 1. Paul Verhoeven - Director, Ed Neumeier - Screenwriter
2. Paul Verhoeven - Director, Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Neil Patrick Harris - Actors
Isolated Score with Commentary by Composer Basil Pouledouris
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Selection
Text/Photo Galleries:
Filmographies

Disc Two:
Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Additional Release Material:
Featurettes: 1. DEATH FROM ABOVE
2. KNOW YOUR FOE (Special Effects)
3. THE STARSHIPS OF 'STARSHIP TROOPERS'
4. Making Of
Deleted Scenes (5)
Special Effects Comparisons (9)
Storyboard Comparisons (3)
Scene Deconstructions with Commentary by Paul Verhoeven (2)
"Johnny" and "Carmen" Screen Tests
Bug Test Footage
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Selection
Text/Photo Galleries:
Conceptual Art Galleries

Product Notes

Dutch director Paul Verhoeven (TOTAL RECALL, ROBOCOP) mixes big budget bug bashing with twisted satire of old Hollywood movies in this adaptation of Robert Heinlein's classic sci-fi novel. It's the future, Earth is at war, and the kids are all going off to fight giant killer bugs on the remote planet of Klendathu. Casper Van Diem, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer, and Patrick Muldoon play some of the blandly attractive young recruits who engage in soap-opera style love triangles as they toughen up and learn to fight (and die) like soldiers. Michael Ironside is their gung-ho, one-armed leader. The real stars though, are the superbly animated bugs. Packed to the rafters with jaw-dropping special effects and insane violence, the film managed to be a box office hit though it undoubtedly left some audiences confused at Verhoeven's slyly deadpan humor. By the time Neil Patrick Harris (TV's Doogie Howser) starts marching around in a Gestapo-style uniform, for example, it will be apparent this isn't STAR WARS. What it is however, is a rousing experience for mature viewers in the properly ironic frame of mind.

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