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'Pacific Rim' - - Man Vs. Monsters!

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Billy Wonka

Oh my. What an original summer movie idea. Well let me tell you, this film has at least twice the gravitas of Starship Troopers because its bugs are many times larger and stronger. The plot is something akin to Rocky meets Godzilla and is guaranteed not to tax your brain or keep you guessing.

The excitement expressed over the CGI effort is completely off base. This looks like any other CGI movie and no new ground is broken here. The only thing broken is the acting and direction. The only mildly amusing part is Ron Perlman's sleezy monster parts dealer who resells bone and tissue to the exotic markets around the world.

del Toro has a hang up with hammer-headed eyeballed creatures that will probably give younger kids nightmares. If you are eleven or older there will be no problem with bed wetting over this too long film.

Word to the wise: The trend of a bonus scene in the middle of the credits applies here.

Rating: One chipmunk cheek full of squid tentacles.

Follow Ups:

Saw it tonite in IMAX 3D and found it to be a lot of fun... - Steve O 21:19:25 07/20/13 (0)
...nothing too serious and obviously tongue-in-cheek in places but I found myself smiling throughout the entire overblown spectacle. Really liked the lack of opening credits too! Overall, ALOT better than The Lone Ranger.
very much like a Roland Emmerich film, filled with clowns and silliness and melodrama overall it works for fun - PhilJ 15:50:51 07/13/13 (0)
but the serious scenes are boring and mostly filler between the fights

throw in a couple of surprises and a cute little girl in a back story and you have a film that is a notch below the first Transformers

IMO of course
RE: del Toro is genius: Pan Labirint, Devils backbone... - Eldragon 18:02:04 07/12/13 (2)
are dealing with childhood nightmares - I am sure Pacific Rim does too...

nothing is more boring than the truth - bukowski
- He's not a genius, and if he keeps making movies like Hellboy and Pacific Rim he might be the other thing - Jazz Inmate 02:20:52 07/15/13 (0)
  More likely he's just a money-grubbing sellout. Pan's Lab was a great film, but it wasn't without its flaws. At this rate it will be the last thing he does worth watching.
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  We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
- I'm sure you haven't seen it by those comments. * - Billy Wonka 09:08:25 07/13/13 (0)
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Local reviewer... - mkuller 16:58:54 07/12/13 (0)
...said he was rooting for the aliens since they were more interesting than the humans.

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