The brief trial of the murderer (due to be executed live, on all channels) is set in the imposing Terrace Room of the Park Plaza Hotel, 607 South Park View Street, overlooking MacArthur Park in downtown Los Angeles. Regular propagandist infomercials set the tone. The DVD includes an above-average commentary by the director and Neumeier, several deleted scenes, a behind-the-scenes documentary and promotional featurette, cast bios, production notes, and more.How did so many critics miss the point? As he did with Robocop, director Paul Verhoeven wraps up wry satire in a violent and FX-laden thriller, set in a neo-Fascist future. It's an action-packed joy ride if that's all you're looking for, but Verhoeven has a provocative agenda that makes Starship Troopers as smart as it is exciting.
Recalling his childhood in Holland during the Nazi occupation, Verhoeven turns this epic adventure into a scathingly funny satire of fascist propaganda, emphasizing Heinlein's underlying warning against the hazards of military conformity and the sickening realities of war. But Starship Troopers is more than a showcase for high-tech hardware and gigantic, flesh-ripping insects. The attacking bugs are marvels of state-of-the-art special-effects technology, and the space battles are nothing short of spectacular. Viewers might focus on the incredible, graphically intense action sequences (definitely not for children) in which heavily armed forces from Earth go to off-world battle against vast hordes of alien "bugs" bent on planetary conquest. The film might be called "Melrose Place in Space," with its youthful cast of handsome guys and gorgeous women who look like they've been recruited (and in some cases they were) from the cast of Beverly Hills 90210.
In Starship Troopers, Verhoeven and RoboCop cowriter Ed Neumeier take inspired cues from Robert Heinlein's classic sci-fi novel to create a special-effects extravaganza that functions on multiple levels of entertainment. In the first and finest RoboCop movie, director Paul Verhoeven combined near-future science fiction with a keen sense of social satire-not to mention enough high-velocity violence to satisfy even the most voracious bloodlust.
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