"Pacific Rim" PG 13
Guillermo del Toro, director of Pan's Labyrinth and Children of Men returns to science fiction fantasy with this strange nod to Godzilla and the Monsters, and Macross Super Dimension Fortress, (in the US called Robotech), and any number of other flicks of the genre.
The premise is not so much as Gun Jocks/Evangelon/Macross movie as it is a Godzilla homage, and then some, and not a rip off so much as a love letter to the fans, spattered in grease and slime, and gore, and stumped with giant robot feet! Ha.
The film takes place several years after an alien monster invasion through a wormhole deep down in the Pacific ocean. Apparently in the future the aliens have overcome the crushing pressures at seafloor depth, and are able to roll onto land, tearing apart cities and air forces, navies and armies. Called in to fight the various types of monsters, the Kaiju, are the Jeagers, giant hunter robots driven using two pilots joined by neural bridge.
The designs have some semblance to video games like Halo and Portal, and the characters do talk like they're in a video game, but it's more fun than Transformers 2007, and has much better dialog. They don't make one pee joke at all.
The story does have an excitable black male protagonist, Sttacker, who acts like a GI Joe, which is cool because there has to be one in these types of movies. This is so that he can lead the troops and kick some major butt, and make heroic speeches, and lead to gets and glory.
The hero though is a former jeager pilot, Becket, who had lost his brother years earlier in a battle, but is asked to come back and help out with the lasdt hope, the remaining robots and their scruffy pilots in a Hong Kong base. Along for the ride is a rookie female hero, Mako, who learns to bomd with the hero to help stop the invasion by the beasts.
Also there are two crazy scientists looking to brain link with some alien brains so they can learn what their secret us.
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