Review – Starship Troopers 2

The dumb turn of events here is that I got this on disc from Netflix specifically because the Onion AV Club said the commentary track was hilarious, but after I sat through it with the regular sound on I was so thoroughly bemused that I sent it back without watching it with the commentary on. My loss, I guess. Early on it's apparent that this go-around doesn't have anything even vaguely approaching the budget of the original, though to the filmmakers' credit they figure this out and try to find ways (limited locations, dark shots and so on) to work around financial limitations rather than ignoring them and trying to remake the first one. Still, a big can full of soldiers surrounded by bugs doesn't supply a feature-length amount of entertainment, even when some of the humans are possessed by evil spy bugs. See if desperate