ABBA - Super Troopers DVD

Advantages: Some brilliant special effects
Disadvantages: Just about everything else about it - bad acting, pointless plot, too many coincidences...

...I had always assumed that Starship troopers was a good riproaring film, along the lines of Robocop. I've only just watched Starship Troopers, after all this time, four years after it came out (I think it was all the hype at the time that put me off) and had to rethink things. I thought it was pointless teen trash. It's directed by Paul Varhoeven, has a promising futuristic backdrop, and good special effects, but any other comparisons to Robocop are, I think, highly misplaced. Starship Troopers was, for me, little better than movies like Streetfighter, movies that, deep down, would rather be a computer game. After 30 minutes I'd had enough, but I persevered, to be rewarded by yet more uninspired acting, and unbelievable coincidences as far as the plot was concerned, oh and, on the plus side, lots of great special effects. Denise... Read review

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...Given Hollywood's love affair with both the B-movie and all things extraterrestrial, it was only a matter of time before the director of "Robocop" and "Total Recall" sent Ken and Barbie into space. Yes, brace yourself for a super-slick, bubblegum-fun, bugs-in-space spoof, best seen after a brain bypass and several rounds of tequila slammers. Three friends - all-brawn-no-brain action hero Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien), arrogant überbabe Carmen Ibanez (Denise Richards) and fascist egghead Carl Jenkins (Neil Patrick Harris) - graduate to the titular Starship Troopers, joining, respectively, the infantry, air force and intelligence. Their timing is impeccable. No sooner have they reached the bone-breaking training camp than their hometown Buenos Aires (the LA of the future) is annihilated by evil alien bugs. Cue way-out weaponry, comic... Read review

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Advantages: Great fun, exciting, great action - much more depth than you might think
Disadvantages: Often sadly overlooked as being brainless

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