You won't be disappointed!

Best movie of this year hands down!

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Sometime after the events shown in 'Starship Troopers' a squad of Federation soldiers is facing overwhelming odds on a 'bug planet'. General Jack Shepherd orders most of his squad retreat to a nearby outpost while he and a handful of soldiers hold off the bugs for as long as they can. They find the outpost to be virtually abandoned; the only person present is Captain Dax, a decorated soldier accused of murdering his senior officer. Psychic Lt. Pavlov Dill wants him kept in custody but as the bugs attack another soldier releases Dax. They hold off the attack and amazingly General Shepherd and a handful of others have survived and got to the outpost. They manage to get the outpost's defences working but soon it becomes apparent that there is a danger inside the walls.The previous film was very much a war film and while this one starts off that way it quickly becomes a horror film as the soldiers are trapped in the outpost. There are less deaths here but many of the ones we do get are substantially more disturbing thanks to the new type of bug which has infiltrated the base. The fact that the planet is dark and means we don't get scenes of vast numbers of bugs sweeping across a desert; instead we get limited numbers and shots of soldiers shooting... clearly a lot cheaper to film! While the war scenes were a little weak the more gory horror scenes were better than I expected. The fact that we have an entirely new cast of characters is a slight problem; we join them in the middle of a battle and there is little time to get to know anything about more than a handful of them. The cast does an okay job considering there are no big name actors amongst them. Overall I'd say that I enjoyed this much more than I expected... perhaps because I'd only heard bad things about it before.

None of the characters who survived in the original Starship Troopers got into this sequel. By accident or design. Good thing Casper Van Dien didn't get into this dreadful and cheap mess.Hero Of The Federation has a group of Troopers separated from the army that captured the brain bug where the original film ended. They take shelter in an abandoned fortress surrounded by the infamous arachnids. Left in that shelter locked in a cold furnace is Richard Burgi, a most unorthodox trooper who was to be disciplined. Turns out he's the one with the best survival instincts.But the supersized arachnids have hatched a plan which I will not reveal but it all ends in a bloody mess with most of the cast killed.This one was done on the cheap and a lot of it in darkness and shadow like those old noir films. But back in the day that was done because those old poverty row studios had minuscule budgets. This was probably done for the same reason. I have no doubt footage from the original was recycled and outtakes as well.Done on the super cheap Heroes Of The Federation ain't a patch on the original.

Director Paul Verhoeven's 1997 loose (and I do mean loose) adaptation of Robert Heinlein's controversial sci-fi novel 'Starship Troopers' threatens to collapse in on itself at times thanks to it's over the top, and frankly not very clever, satire. But like Verhoven's other sci-fi satire, 'RoboCop', it manages to entertain and often beat the more serious sci-fi popcorn actioners at their own game.Unfortunately, Star Wars legend Phil Tippett's cheap and poorly made direct-to-video sequel is a total lost cause. It starts off with a half-hearted nod to Verhoven's satirical spin, but it quickly shifts gears and becomes an uninspired sci-fi horror slog.There isn't a day rainy enough for me to recommend this utter waste of 90 minutes.

Just for the record I know not all slasher movies are bad, but when you watch a movie thinking it's and action-horror and end up watching a horrible slasher movie, you will be disappointed. This film had none of the originals satire, and manages to make many, many, mistakes (And not even entertaining ones)! Instead of overdoing it (Like most sequels), this film doesn't even do it in the FIRST PLACE. Instead of the goofy/dumb/incompetent sequel tone, Starship Troopers 2 is as bitter as they come. It is not easy to watch and (At least to me) is not even sort of entertaining. The slasher aspect sort of sneaks up on you. This movie starts up like a sci-fi movie and gradually turns into this gross joyless film that is Starship a Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation. I do not recommend this awful film.