Pacific Rim - Godzilla on Meth

Haven't you always wanted to know what Godzilla's meth babies would look like?  Watch Pacific Rim.  Pac Rim is a Guillermo del Toro film which if you know his work means lots of action and interesting creatures.  (Some of del Toro's films include Blade 2, Pan's Labyrinth, The Hobbit, Hellboy 2, and Mama.)  This movie stars my husband, Idris Elba, and Charlie Hunnam (yeah, I don't know who he is either).  It is basically a movie about robots, Jaegers, controlled by two individuals who have a vulcan mind meld, or drifting, and try to protect the world from aliens, Kaijus, who come to the planet through a dimension that is in the earth's core.

These Kaijus are like a cross between several different dinosaurs.  In fact, they believe that these aliens were the original dinos, but couldn't handle the atmosphere, so they left until we screwed it up with all of our CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.  The Jaegers are like a cross between gigantic Robocops and morphed Power Rangers.  The fighting between these two are epic and would put the Godzilla versus King Kong battle to shame.  Del Toro must be a huge fan of Godzilla because this movie is very reminiscent of those old movies even going so far as to have a large chunk of the movie being set in Hong Kong.

There's so much action in the movie, that it's often times hard to keep up with some of the fighting scenes.  I did like the hand to hand combat, and the minimal use of guns and bombs.  It was very exciting to see the evolution of the Kaijus, waiting to see what they would do next in battle.  The action is enough to keep you entertained because the acting jobs surely will not.  Idris Elba is one of two A list actors in the movie.  Ron Perlman is the second and has a very small role.  The rest of these new faces have a lot of work to do.  Although somewhat thrilling, Pacific Rim is one of those movies that you should wait to see on tv.  It's just all right; amusing enough to watch on a Sunday afternoon, but I don't know if it was compelling enough to spend the money to see it at the theaters even if you are intrigued by Godzilla's meth babies.