Or is it some cut scenes are missing their video game? This movie wouldn't be bad if it was delivered in short segments around video game play. But as a movie, it leaves a lot to be desired.That's not accurate. It leaves everything to be desired.The core message in the movie is George W. Bush masterminded the 9/11 attack to gain popularity and steal the oil in Iraq. It's a rotten message, and the delivery is very poorly done.Everything about this movie is derivative. Elements that were clever in the 80's and 90's, like the news reports delivering important information and mood, are now just tired reruns. Just using those news reports with the sarcastic tone would be bad enough, but in this movie the news reports often repeat information that was just given. So any chance of their being interesting or necessary is lost in a wave of redundancy.The voice acting is painful to hear. Many of the female characters have a habit of adding an extra syllable to the end of words - like pouty teenage girls do." If it's not an extra syllable, it's a big intake of breath."Why are you doing this to me-uh?" "Send the ships (huhhhh)" It's very bad.Characters go from absolute panic to over confident swagger to absolute panic to overconfident swagger - repeat the cycle 10 more times - in the same scene. It happens scene after scene. Are they overconfident veterans or panicked kids? It'f fine to be both at different times, but it's not fine to be both at the same time.The shifting attitude of the characters goes right along with the overuse of the in-helmet, close up view of a panicked face. That's only broken up by the in-helmet, close up view of an overconfident face. It's shots by the numbers.The story is by the numbers. An egotistical leader plots evil doings to get the people on her side. One man uncovers the plot, and he pulls the two heroes into the standard busting the conspiracy action. Star Trek" The Undiscovered Country did it much better.There's some decent action buried in this mess, but it's buried too deep and it's too infrequent. That's where a video game would come in handy. If a player could get immersed in living the action for long stints between the awful movie, it would serve as glue that held the narrative together.But the video game is absent along with entertainment value.

I generally watch the Starship Troopers CG movies looking for ridiculously over-the-top action shlock I can put on with friends and laugh at while being entertained. Traitor of Mars does the trick on this front, but it actually has a pretty good story this time with a cast of lovable shlubs. Whoever came up with the concept of a makeup-caked bimbo Space Marine is exactly the kind of person who should be leading the charge on these Starship Trooler CG flicks.These sequels are, as you might expect, nowhere remotely close to the verhoeven classic in terms of tone or message, but they surprisingly do a pretty great job of keeping up that same dumb fun 90's shlock feel that the surface level of first flick had: troopers are sent into the meat grinder time and again by incompetent superiors who are wholly detached from the reality of war. The difference is that, in these CG flicks, Rico will get launched 15 feet into the air, do a flip and jump-kick a giant bug to kill it, and it'll totally work. Everyone has anime plot armor and every dumb tactical decision can be fought through by shooting enough bullets at it.In short, it's close enough to the surface level of the original to keep true, while also being wholly enjoyable shlock to watch with friends. Thought they did a good job with this one.

I enjoyed this, and I hope more cgi animation sequels are produced, as the quality from computers continues to get better by leaps and bounds.I don't think it was meant to be a sequel, per se, but just a treat for the fans. The Rbt A Heinlein book is awesome, nothing like anything yet put on video, but the original movie and this one have some elements from it.

For different reasons I really like this universe. Most of the reviews compare it to other animated series or the great, Paul Verhoeven, live action version (i shall not name the 2 sequels) but for me, the true original, the book plays even bigger roll.Its great social commentary, on the one hand you have protofacist military regime on the other they are racially diverse, high on gender equality and the "none citizens" have a great chance to be successful not only monetarily but also socially (no politics for them thou.Sexually open and no dogmatic religion. Yes, there is heavy propaganda and young people die by the millions but they are also fighting, in a pure form, of existential war, against an enemy who will never stop, never negotiate and whose ultimate goal is destruction of mankind. These kinds of grey-grey-grey worlds can give food for thought for decades.Now to the movie, i see some of that interesting world in this version. I really liked the suites, they are close enough. But the main plot/villain can not fundamentally exist in this world. Power-crab by notorious means is common but can not be wheeled single-handedly in this kind of military society. Not one revolution/Coup d'état has been done by one man or woman. Sure, there is Caesar, but he was not taking over a military government. Not to mention that supposedly cleverest person alive is a snotty moronI had some nicks and knacks for fire power and bug movement and i was hoping to see some new types of bugs but these are minor annoyances compered to the main plot Nostalgia value is great thou, not only from the ST universe but did you catch the Full Metal Jacket ref? Oh and Casper Van Dien/Dina Meyer voices where a nice touch.Overall if you don't know the background 5/10, if you do know a little but aren't a fan 6/10, for me nostalgia will add an other star so 7/10 (and i really hope this will not be the end of this franchise)