March 15, 2014We visited some family this weekend and didn't have as many opportunities as usual to watch movies, but we did get one opportunity to show Pacific Rim to our 11 year old nephew, Henry, and I can't think of a cooler movie to show any 11 year old. As far as special effects go, this one is pretty great (although I remembered it looking better in theaters). I'll never be an advocate for CGI, but a movie about giant robots fighting giant underwater dinosaur clones will win me over any time. That is pretty much the plot of it right there. In the near future, dinosaurs (or aliens, whichever you prefer - I think the movie referenced both) known as Kaiju come out of the ocean and start laying waste to entire cities. The humans build massive robots called Jaegers (modern day Power Ranger type robots) that have the kind of firepower necessary to take down the Kaiju. The Jaegers are each manned by at least two people, who have to be 'drift compatible' - meaning they have to have similar skills and feelings and then through some scientific mumbo jumbo they get connected mentally to be able to work together to fight. The Kaiju keep getting stronger and smarter and the Jaegers have to keep up to survive. With such a hilariously silly plot that sounds like something from the 80s, a movie like this just shouldn't work today, but under the excellent direction of Guillermo del Toro it absolutely works, and hopefully we will see a sequel soon.
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