STARSHIP TROOPERS-1997-In the future high school kids are encouraged through lots of advertising to join the military to fight insect like aliens from a far off planet. Johnny (Casper Van Dien) joins the corps mainly because his girlfriend Carmen (Denise Richards) has to. Unfortunately she takes up with another dweeb (Patrick Muldoon). Dina Meyer is Dizzy, another recruit who is sweet on Johnny. There's a lot of cardboard acting and clichéd situations but things pick up when Earth goes to war against "the bugs".
Michael Ironside is the commanding officier and Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris and Clancy Brown are in it. Director Paul Verhoven made this after the alughable SHOW GIRLS. It's based on a novel by Robert Heinlein.
It seems this story is ripe for a remake!
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