Belated Movie Reviews

She’s not happy with her fiancee, I think.

In Starship Troopers II: Hero of the Federation (2004), the series transforms from a bad knock-off of the original novel to a sci-fi / horror akin to the classic Alien series, with no philosophical connection to book from which it supposedly originated. While the plot is more or less serviceable, it’s not really believable. It’s somewhat messy in the details, fails to deliver up sympathetic characters, and when characters are revealed to be under Bug control, it just caused some laughter. And theme? Hard to see any theme here.

At the end, a clumsy and ineffective anti-militarism scene is tacked on, as if to make up for the rest of the schlock. And that’s just about all it is.

Bookmark the permalink.

About Hue White

Former BBS operator; software engineer; cat lackey.

Comments are closed.