Giant monsters (Kaiju) and giant robots (Jaegers) battle it
out with the world crumbing around them.
It doesn’t get much better than that.
If you’re looking for a deep philosophical message in
director Guillerno Del Toro’s Pacific Rim film from Warner Bros. you can forget
it.
Oh sure it has its touching moments and some character
development but let’s face it-it’s the monsters and robots that are the stars
of the film.
When it is discovered (rather destructively) that a space rift
has opened at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that allows giant Kaiju to pass
into our world and wreak havoc, the world units to fight back.
The results are giant robots manned by two pilots (one
responsible for the left hemisphere and one the right via cerebral links with the
robots) that manage to ward off the rampaging beasts and bring relative peace to
the world…until….
Suddenly the escalation of the beasts increases and the frequency
of their arrival shortens. To make
matters worse the creatures themselves seem to be evolving, becoming larger and
more ferocious.
It’s up to an elite team of Jaeger pilots to take a nuclear
weapon to the bottom of the rift, detonate it and seal it off from future monster
invasions.
Of course things manage to go terribly wrong, people die,
monsters destroy even more and at the last moment a valiant hero emerges who
saves the day.
OK, formula film making as far as the story goes. But those
monsters and robots! It makes a fan boy’s
heart flutter!
For sheer fun watching a film be sure to pick up a copy of
Warner Bros. Blu-ray/DVD/Digital HD Ultraviolet Combo Pack and get ready to
fight some monsters!