Starship Troopers 2 - Hero of the Federation

Starship Troopers 2 - Hero of the Federation
by Phil Tippett

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Actor: Billy Brown, Cy Carter, Kelly Carlson, Richard Burgi, Sandrine Holt
Director: Phil Tippett
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Christian Sebaldt
Producer: Phil Tippett
Editor: Louise Rubacky
Producer: Edward Neumeier
Writer: Edward Neumeier
Producer: Glenn S. Gainor
Producer: Jon Davison
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures

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Movie Review: Not a bad horror movie.
Summary: 3 Stars

Make no mistake, this is a low budget horror movie. It is faithful to the concept of the first movie. I could see the characters living in the same world as the the characters in the original. The special effects were decent. I liked that they cast Brenda Strong (as a very different character than in the original). The main characters are dynamic and interesting. I am glad I bought it.

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Summary of Starship Troopers 2 - Hero of the Federation

The war against the giant bugs continues. A small group of troopers find themselves taking refude in an abandoned outpost as they attempt to fight the encroaching arachnids - not realizing that a much graver danger is actually infiltrating their unit. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 03/22/2004 Starring: Richard Burgi Ed Lauter Run time: 92 minutes Rating: R

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 (? 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

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