This was a winner. It's the near future, and the United States has become a police state. The planet has recently become bombarded by big asteroids from an alien bug planet. Evidently, the giant alien bugs have a habit of shooting their "spores" into space, knock anteroids out of orbit and sending them to earth. First of all, why are aliens bugs shooting their "spores" into space? Isn't that a bit of a waste? I mean, suppose they were humans. Could you honestly see humans using, well, reproductive bodily fluids to propell asteroids (and later destroy ships)? Oh well, I guess this is something aliens do. Well, to make a long story short, the people of earth get annoyed and send troops over to the alien bug planet to kill off all the bugs. Yes, thet's ight. In true American fashion, when a small group pisses us off, we send people to wipe out their entire civilization. Anyway, our hero, whose name is (I swear I'm not making this up) Johnny Rico, decides to enlist because he's in love with Denise Richards who wants to be a pilot. So, Johnny Rico, his girlfriend, Denise Richards, and their mutual geeky friend, Doogie Howser go into the service to kill bugs. The three of them split up, and Denise Richards dumps Johnny Rico for some other pilot who looks a lot like Chris Kattan. Johnny Rico, meanwhile, becomes the greatest infantry person the galaxy has ever known, although he does accidently kill one of his teammates in basic training, but that's ok, because the guy was an idiot. Eventually, Johnny Rico and his team get sent to alien bug world where we see lots of gooey fighting. The evil bugs tend to overpower the humans, but with Rico at the helm, things start to change, I guess. Somewhere in there, there's a nude co-ed shower scene for the artistic and story-enhancing purpose of having a nude co-ed shower scene, and eventually Rico "kicks it" with a female member of his team. He's devestated for a few minutes after she dies, but once they shoot her body into space, he's over it and ready to go after Denise Richards who, with her new boyfriend, crashes onto the bug planet. Rico and his team out on the planet are looking for a big brain-sucking bug. Yes, the Bug leader is a giant blob that live on human brains or something. Where it got the brains before the humans got there is beyond me. Well, the brain-sucker sucks the brains out of the pilot boyfriend, but Rico saves Denise Richards at the last minute with a little psychic help from Doogie Howser.
I learned two things from this movie:
1. If someone's pissing you off, you have a moral right to go to his/her home and destroy everyone there.
2. Always have a backup girlfriend.
All in all, the movie sucked.