Casper Van Dien battles big insects from outer space in Starship Troopers. In Starship Troopers, giant bugs from outer space rip off human heads and limbs willy-nilly and suck out their brains.
Nobody objects to a simple gross-out proposition on the big screen.
But here too, Starship Troopers doesn't quite make it, splashing so many characters with so much barf, gore and bug guts and so self-consciously that it just gets predictable. Some of it is amusing. Finally, there's boot camp and pilot training for our various bright young characters, followed by heartache and bugs and death. When it's etymology versus entomology, the bugs have it.