Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation

This was disappointing for one very important reason.

The first Starship Troopers was, for better or worse, an individual and specific work of cinema. It was drama, and SF, and horror, and political commentary, and T&A, all mooshed up together. It was DIFFERENT.

This movie was standard-issue, paint-by-numbers, some assembly required, batteries not included FORMULA.

It's like reading the original DUNE by Frank Herbert, and then reading "House Harkonnen" by his son and some ghostwriter. Bleah. DUNE was a unique and startlingly original work of fiction. HH was . . . well, a book.

It's something of the same disappointment I felt on watching "Beyond Re-Animator".

If you can catch it on cable, and have an hour and a half of your life you don't mind losing and never getting back. . . otherwise, give it a miss.