Let me tell you something about me. I bloody love giant monsters. I love giant monsters from space.
I doubly love giant sea monsters. Pacific Rim has giant sea monsters that also happen to be, sort of, from space. Prepare yourselves for a gushing review.
The film tells the story of these mega-monsters that come to
Earth through a wormhole located at the bottom of the Pacific Rim. When they
come, Earth isn't ready. We lose entire cities to these giant, toothy, clawy,
many-eyed motherfuckers. Fast forward a few years...and we have giant mechs
that are just about capable of punching these monsters in their great, big
monstery faces.
The meat of the story focusses on the pilots of these iron
giants. One of them is Charlie Hunnam, who you may know from Sons of Anarchy
or, um, Queer As Folk. We also have Ron 'The Pearl Man' Perlman, Idris 'Should
definitely be the next James Bond or Batman' Elba, and Charlie (Charlie off of
Always Sunny) Day. And a bunch of other people. But they don't matter; what
matters is the monsters and the robots built to fight the monsters.
The skyscraper-sized beasts are a certain type of beautiful
ugly. Enormous, scaly, occasionally winged grotesque things that look like the
product of a Godzilla/Dung Beetle fuck session. One of them looks like a crab,
if that crab was also a satanic demon thing, and it is tremendous.
If you've ever seen a Godzilla film, you'll love it. If you
were a Power Rangers fan as a kid, you'll love it...unless all your mates made
you play as the Pink or Yellow ranger, because no one wanted to be those. If
you like any movie ever that features any monster of any description, I reckon
you'll love it. It's basically a proto-sequel to all of those types of films, a
bookend to them that says 'Fuck your one-monster-per-film noise, we've turned
those amps to eleven'. It's as if someone made twenty-five consecutive sequels
to the (also great) Cloverfield, them rolled them all together into a mostly
coherent bundle of pure JOY.
Also, yes, hahaha... 'Rim'.
4 Megazords out of 5
Words by Chris Welsh
