Eye Candy #380 - "Starship Troopers 3 - Marauder"

Starship Troopers 3 - Marauder:  I don’t know if the Starship Troopers property was deserving of a film trilogy, but we got one anyway.  An attempt to return to the bright, loud goofiness of the first SST film, we even get Casper Van Dien reprising his role of Johnny Rico. This time around he’s got some additional name actors in support, including Amanda Donohoe (how far she has fallen) and Jolene Blaylock (who needs to fire her agent, then hire him back and fire him again), as the Federation continues its apparently never ending war against the bugs and their leaders, including the brain bug to end all brain bugs.  It does recapture some of the absurdity of the original film (the black tongue-in-cheek humor), but this film is lethargic (with very little bug-fighting to speak of), relatively low production values, and a plot that is nothing to write home about (and it spends a lot of its time slagging on religion/faith for no real good reason other than its something people can argue about).  A step up from SST 2, but a step down from SST 1.  Woodchuck sez, “For completists.”