SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

JoeB131 This is the second animated feature based on Paul Vorhoeven's adaptation of Robert Heinlein's work. To give it credit, it's vision of the Mobile Infantry is actually a lot closer to Heinlein's original vision, where the MI wears battle armor capable of inflicting lots of destruction on the animated insects. The plot line is that the new Sky Marshall allowed the bugs to invade Mars so she'd have an excuse to destroy the planet to any other colony that would want independence from the Federation. The animation still looks creepy as heck, even though some of the close-ups of faces are pretty detailed. The action scenes are dull, nothing we haven't seen in three previous movies.

Mark Turner Believe it or not it's been 20 years since the original STARSHIP TROOPERS hit the screen. The movie was an amazing science fiction spectacle that brought to life the visions of author Robert J. Heinlein. Altered slightly the film showed a battle hungry group of soldiers battling to save the Earth from an invasion of bug styled creatures. Since the film came out there have been 4 sequels including this one, the latest.The story opens with a group of new soldiers, natives of Mars, who have joined the military to protect their planet from any potential invasions. At the helm of training these untested soldiers is world weary warrior Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien), the main hero of the first film. Scarred and missing an eye he runs them through simulation after simulation and the end results are not good. Raw and untrained they seem to lack the killer instinct and comradery it will take to make a formidable fighting force.As their training is going on the Federation has launched a massive attack on the bugs as they call these invaders. Led by Johnny's one time pal Carmen Ibanez (Luci Christian) the fleet arrives expected and taking on casualties. During the middle of this battle Carmen is telepathically contacted by Carl Jenkins (Justin Doran) to leave the battle and head for Mars. Before he can explain he is captured by a group as yet unidentified.As the film progresses we learn that Sky Marshal Amy Snapp (Emily Neves) is setting things in motion to place herself in a position of power greater than she already has. The Martians were contemplating leaving the Federation and in an effort to make that a decision not worth taking she has set up a bug invasion on Mars knowing they are unprepared to defend yet. Her plan is for the planet to fall and when that happens blow it up, a word of warning to other planets. But she didn't count on Rico and his troops.To begin with this time around the film is all CGI which doesn't take anything away when you take into consideration all of the effects for the live action films were CGI. The story is less complicated than you would think and it moves along quickly setting up the action sequences while providing more depth of story than one might expect. The end result is a worthwhile addition to the series and fun for sci-fi fans as well as those of the films.What really makes this one nice is the fact that both Casper Van Dien and Dina Meyers have returned for this one. Meyers returns as Dizzy Flores, Ricco's love interest from the first film who was killed in the same. This time around Dizzy is a mirage, an image sent to Ricco's mind to keep him moving forward. Both of these actors have gone on to other films so it is nice to see them return to the movie that moved the two of them forward at the time. Hopefully more will decide to follow suit should they go onward with more movies like this.If you're a fan of the films you'll want to add this one to your collection. It may be steering away from the anti-military sentiment of the first film but the story of battling against bugs rages on.

Ming Lee I wasn't expecting much from this CGI movie after a few failure to this franchise. Seriously though, it is smart to bring back Rico and Diz, it somehow let fan like me to reconnect once more.The story is simply straight forward with almost nonstop action, too much story telling will ruin and doesn't fit in this particular series. I wish there will be another CGI movie with a better or somehow little more considerable, convincing plot twists to spice the whole thing up.With the VR gaming gaining speed nowadays, I could see there is possibility to develop a VR game! Which will be a breathing taking one if they do it right.I wouldn't say there is no plot hole in this movie, but sometimes, just flow with the story and stop asking too many question. ;)

alien_invasor_05 **This may contain spoilers** The original movie was a masterpiece, and its really hard to match.U get it why they did cgi instead of live action. Casper is older, skinnier, it would be more expensive to create special effects for the new suits, etc.I cannot complain about the animation, as it is gorgeous. Cant complain about the voice over, it was done by some of the actors from the original and it does bring some nostalgia.The real bummer on this film is the extremely weak plot. And the wholes that are inside. Like how did Rico survived when he fell into thousands of of enemies?. Why he was alone in the next scene? What happened to the bugs? Why was Carl not executed?, how did he escaped or why was he released? Anyway, if you are fan of the franchise you will love the action scenes, they do resemble and are, not on par, but consistent with the original film. You will enjoy them. The plot, not so much.This is by no means a masterpiece, but its also far from being garbage as some reviews say. Im happy that they are keeping the franchise alive, but i fear that ill die, if not already, with less than stellar small sequels targeting the fans instead of 1 well done film that everyone can see.If you are a fan, what are you waiting trooper?, if not, just watch the original.