Pacific Rim Takes Lessons from Michael Bay and Transformers
Pacific Rim has a decent premise. Gargantuan aliens known as
Kaiju have invaded Earth, roaming the seas and they definitely prove to be more
potent than any of mankind’s weapons of mass destruction. Humans have not
raised the white flag, though. They’ve built an army of equally large robots
(Jaegers) controlled by people through a neural bridge to fight these
extraterrestrial species.
Large Robots? Sounds familiar. Oh right, we saw large robots
in the Transformers trilogy, so is Pacific Rim just a light spin on
Transformers by pitting robots against aliens instead of each other? On first
glance, this seems just like that, a hollow summer blockbuster filled with
enough action and explosions to leave children and adults in awe.
Guillermo Del Toro, producer and director of the movie is
already keen on a sequel. He even muses on the idea of a Pacific Rim- Godzilla
crossover. This seems highly improbable but after seeing all the footage I suppose
Godzilla served as inspiration to the movie’s development, rather than a point
for a movie follow-up. Most of the aliens look like Godzilla and his distant
aunts and cousins anyway.
The basic point is that Pacific Rim seems to have borrowed
bits and pieces from across the Sci-Fi genre, hoping that it combines well
together like some kid’s science fair chemistry project. It’s eclectic,
scattered. And like most children’s science projects, the results could be as
arbitrary and messy as the initial idea. But of course, if you want fireworks
and massive gadgetry like half the world’s populace, the movie will do just
fine at the box office.
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