Pacific Rim

If were nine years old, I would see the monsters-versus-robots adventure "Pacific Rim" 50 times. Because I'm in my forties and have two kids and two jobs, I'll have to be content with seeing it a couple more times in theaters and re-watching it on video.-Joseph Brigde

Like George Lucas' original 1977 "Star Wars", Guillermo del Toro's sci-fi actioner uses high technology to pump up disreputable subject matter to Hollywood blockbuster levels. The film's main selling point is its overscaled action sequences. In a terrified futureworld, spindly-limbed, whale-sized beasts emerge from a Hellmouth on the ocean floor and duke it out with immense robots. The robots are run by two-pilot teams whose movements suggest tai chi exercises taking place on the world's largest, weirdest elliptical machines. They work in pairs because they use their minds and bodies to guide the machines in the way that puppeteers guide puppets, and the technology is too complex for a single brain to handle.

  When monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes-a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi)-who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind's last hope against the mounting apocalypse. [Warner Bros.]

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 Pacific Rim is a holiday blockbuster, a $180m bag of popcorn as unpretentious as it is expensive, designed, del Toro says, for family outings, his own included. Exactly the same honest claim was made by Richard Burton when explaining, if explanation was needed, why he was making Where Eagles Dare back in the 1960s. He said it was far too long since he'd made a picture that his own children could (or might want to) see. Indeed if you look at the 15 pictures he'd made after Cleopatra (rereleased this week to mark its 50th anniversary), you can see his point. I remember my own children, then aged 10, eight and six lapping up Where Eagles Dare back in 1969, the same year they also loved The Valley of Gwangi, the British monster movie by the great special effects maestro Ray Harryhausen, the co-dedicatee of Pacific Rim along with Ishiro Honda, who made the series of Japanese monster flicks that began in the 1950s with Godzilla and Rodan.

so if you hav not seen it what are you waiting for