Starship Troopers: Critic Reviews

89%

MovieWeb: 5 reviews

62%

RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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Janet Maslin New York Times (Top Critic)

40

As written by Ed Neumeier, who also wrote Verhoeven's much tighter Robocop, Starship Troopers never gets over its 180-degree swivel from teen-age love story to murderous destruction.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Mike Clark USA Today (Top Critic)

100

Director Paul Verhoeven is back in his subversively nimble RoboCop groove with the uproariously cheeky Starship Troopers.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Bruce Westbrook Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

The most audacious pop-cultural amalgam since Star Wars.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

50

The action sequences are heavily laden with special effects, but curiously joyless.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Susan Stark Detroit News (Top Critic)

75

May just be the bug movie to end all bug movies.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Liam Lacey Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

50

Lacking the sophistication of the average comic book, it compensates with panoramic attack sequences, reminiscent of the Japanese swarm attacks in American war movies.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Scott Rosenberg Salon.com (Top Critic)

Lacks the courage of the book's fascist conclusions.
Full Review » 10 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

75

Flawed but fun.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Richard Schickel TIME Magazine (Top Critic)

Maybe the filmmakers are so lost in their slambang visual effects that they don't give a hoot about the movie's scariest implications.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

70

A jaw-dropping experience, so rigorously one-dimensional and free from even the pretense of intelligence it's hard not to be astonished and even mesmerized by what is on the screen.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Charles Cassady Common Sense Media

60

Gory, scary, violent sci-fi is too intense for kids.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com

100

"Starship Troopers" is a war satire that outshines even Kubrick's great film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."
Full Review » 3 years ago
David Nusair Reel Film Reviews

75

...boasts a tongue-in-cheek, downright campy sensibility that ultimately pervades every aspect of the proceedings.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Peter Canavese Groucho Reviews

100

Insanely subversive...functions as a visually dazzling science-fiction action picture, a philosophical challenge, and a hilarious, incisive comedy. [Blu-Ray]
Full Review » 4 years ago
John J. Puccio DVDTown.com

80

Paul Verhoeven's satiric, 1997, sci-fi, war-movie romance is admittedly an acquired taste.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Gary Brown Houston Community Newspapers

25

Are these ever mean bugs!
Full Review » 5 years ago
Nick Schager Lessons of Darkness

75

More effective as a satire than as an action extravaganza.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Dragan Antulov rec.arts.movies.reviews

90

Full Review » 8 years ago
Jim Shelby Palo Alto Weekly

88

Full Review » 9 years ago
Brian Mckay eFilmCritic.com

60

Utter stupidities and other scientific impossibilities litter the script like trooper body parts . . . [yet] the film does something right
Full Review » 9 years ago
John R. McEwen Film Quips Online

20

Full Review » 9 years ago
Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope

50

What galls me is the film's marketing, moral and ideological cynicism.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Christopher Null Filmcritic.com

70

Cut Paul Verhoeven some slack!
Full Review » 10 years ago
Karina Montgomery Cinerina

0

It's fun and empty but so much less vacuous than Men In Black.
Full Review » 11 years ago
James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk

75

Repulsively thrilling and often downright hilarious.
Full Review » 11 years ago