Pacific Rim

Yesterday night~ 

went to catch Pacific Rim at the cinema with the usual group 

-1 person (he was busy dating with his gf *cough*)

Anyway! the movie was... okay.. lol 

Here's a low down on the movie~ Its a tribute to the classic Toku films japanese movies.

Ultraman and Godzilla. which is why the Kaiju (giant monsters) in this movie resembled the classic Ultraman monster and of course Godzilla.

Here you see the resemblance of the classic Ultraman Kaiju and the new Pacific Rim Kaiju.
or you can simply refer them as Granpa Kaijus and their grand childrens.

Its basically the same storyline as those classic movies/series. 

Giant monsters entering earth through a dimensional portal to destroy/reform the earth.

and the humans fight back with Giant robots.. Its like power rangers and ultraman all over again..

But with better graphics and 3D effects~

I'm not gonna hate, cos when I was young I liked the classic power ranger series. ("Power Rangers" as in the first season of the series, the ones with the dinosaur robots, not the new shitty acting power rangers they have now).

As a movie though.. Pacific Rim disappoints me. Oh sure they recreated the movie in full cool animation.. 

But when you dont classify it under 'Giant Monster' movies, you'd put it as a giant robot movie.

Which in this case, if you were to compare the movie to;  Real Steel , Transformers and/or Battleship. This movie just doesnt reach the limit set by those movies.

As a giant monster movie its good~
But that's only cos there hasn't been a good one since the King Kong remake. But overall the movie was still good enough.. I mean back in the 90s movies like Godzilla never had great storyline either. I can see that they really tried to implement a storyline into pacific rim, but it just felt soo Power Ranger -ish , that just cant help but feel sort of ripped off.

That aside, the acting is good enough.. They had Rinko Kikuchi as the main female heroine, so that's a plus. She maybe 30+ year old, but she's still a good looking actress. The male lead is, Charlie Hunman. He fitted the role of Pacific Rim's lead row really well... since the main character is a marine head. Which of course means it doesnt require much acting skill.. aha.. 

For Storyline~ the whole Transformers history is basically more reformed and well-made, compared to that of the classic Godzilla movies and of course Pacific Rim now. The storyline could've been a lot better if they included more logical stuff into it.

This was the main disappointment for me, the storyline was just not as well defined as the movie now. At the end of it all I just felt like I just came out from watching a boxing match. All that was shown was fighting. If the fighting had a good story background like Real Steel, it would've been more interesting for me.  but no, it was just pure action.. Keeping true to the Kaiju style movie, like Ultraman~ endless giants fighting each other. 

Overall I rate the movie: 7/10

Because in the end its still a 3D animated movie, even if the storyline is lacking.

For me a a movie that doesnt require the use of the brain is a downpoint, though I know some people would view it as a plus side. To each their own opinion. 

Its still a movie with great graphics, great camera angles, epic soundtrack. So what it lacks, it makes up for with good animations. aha

I have a few friends who found this movie epic though. I guess its different depending on what kind of series you watch when you were growing up. The ones that liked this movie alot i found were the Kamen Rider and Ultraman fans. So overall, I guess the movie didn't fail as much as it disappointed me.

I might have enjoyed it better if I was a Godzilla fan. 

But since I'm not.. *disappointed* 

Still check it out if you likey giant robots, giant aliens, cool animation, japanese chick or muscular hunks.

 And that's all I have to review for the movie. 

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