Been meaning to watch this for a while - missed it when it first came out - largely because of lousy reviews, but it actually deserved better.
How to describe it? Stupidly good looking, blue-eyed Aryans travelling to the ends of the galaxy to stomp out bugs. The sets, effects, bugs, spaceships, costumes, all first rate. The dialogue and plot is stilted and 2 dimensional, but is intended to be that way - it's a satire, after all -- and if you understand that you'll be laughing all the way through - at the call for a medic, at the good-natured butt-slapping in the Co-Ed showers, at the pun "Roger Young" - look for it, the complete unaffected aspect of the troops when roaming through wastelands of carnage and bodies, at the 1-limbed infantryman who welcomes Johnny Rico to the infantry with a "One day you'll be just like me", at the ever-younger recruits, at the eagerness to die for "the species", the suspiciously prescient propaganda of the state "Would you like to know more...?".
Not a great movie, but a very good one, and certainly well ahead of it's time.
Other films by Paul Verhoeven include Robocop and Total Recall.