OK, so the film is pretty poor but I found myself getting quite into it. The original Starship Troopers was fantastic but at the end I wanted more. What happened once they had the brain bug? Well you won't find out in this film as it is in no way a sequel in the traditional sense of the word, more a gaiden, a side-story. Tells you a little more about the bugs and their motivation, and I agree with them.
You get to see a new bug, which is actually a very good (but unoriginal) idea that I felt fitted well with the Starship Troopers universe, but you never forget you are watching a B-movie. Or maybe a C-movie (as in it should have been included as a bonus on the DVD of Starship Troopers 3 when it comes out, rather than). Take away the bad bits (which is basically ALL the technical stuff like script and directing) and what you have left is a decent enough story that will (had better) carry over into the next one. And at the end of the day, that is all this film is and all it should be taken as.
Still, I found it quite coherent and the story was not so far removed from the original that it couldn't have been devised at the same time (which it blatantly wasn't though or it'd have been released five years earlier. It all rests in the third one now. If the events of 2 carry over, I give it a five for advancing the story in an interesting way. If it doesn't, then it gets a three, and two of those points are for the beautiful Sandrine Holt and Colleen Porch who were a pleasure to watch. The other one goes to the characters of Beck, Rake and Dax who, whilst being ripped from the Alien films, are different enough from the other characters that they can share a whole point between them.
You get to see a new bug, which is actually a very good (but unoriginal) idea that I felt fitted well with the Starship Troopers universe, but you never forget you are watching a B-movie. Or maybe a C-movie (as in it should have been included as a bonus on the DVD of Starship Troopers 3 when it comes out, rather than). Take away the bad bits (which is basically ALL the technical stuff like script and directing) and what you have left is a decent enough story that will (had better) carry over into the next one. And at the end of the day, that is all this film is and all it should be taken as.
Still, I found it quite coherent and the story was not so far removed from the original that it couldn't have been devised at the same time (which it blatantly wasn't though or it'd have been released five years earlier. It all rests in the third one now. If the events of 2 carry over, I give it a five for advancing the story in an interesting way. If it doesn't, then it gets a three, and two of those points are for the beautiful Sandrine Holt and Colleen Porch who were a pleasure to watch. The other one goes to the characters of Beck, Rake and Dax who, whilst being ripped from the Alien films, are different enough from the other characters that they can share a whole point between them.