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Pacific Rim Sequel: This March Holy Shit it Happened
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The story is, well, let's be honest, we're not there for the story.
If you saw the first one, then you've seen the second one (including most of the jokes).
Most people will be going for the robot vs monster fights, and those:
Optically, everything is where it should be. Stuff looks great. Even better than the first.
Most of the time though the Jägers lack the weight they had in the first one.
It feels like cheap plastic is being thrown around (despite buildings toppling, which is really weird).
The biggest disappointment for me is the poor showing of the Jägers.
You had some media hype surrounding the robots, the Jägers are teased early on in the movie proper, but when they actually make their screen appearance, it's very short and rather flimsy.
I don't want to spoil anything, but the "swarm" "event" near the end of the movie is particularly jarring.
You could wait for this to appear on netflix, is not a must-see-in-cinema.
I really liked the first, despite me usually bring a nitpicky jerk. PR moved fast enough and was earnest enough that "analog", etc. didn't matter.
I got a little excited when I saw your ship.
Definitely enjoyed the DBOX seat for this though. Took it from super dumb to EXTRA super dumb.
Also Charlie Day’s maroon suit was fly.
That was a nice touch. A good reminder that the program was meant to be multinational.
Didn't see it either, but in hindsight, it makes sense.
I'm pretty middle of the ground on the movie overall. It did some things better than the original, but other things not so much. Felt pretty much like "Jaegers, here's some more of them", and they didn't have as much impact as the first movie. Partly because they didn't do much new with them, partly because they just weren't presented as being very impressive. I think there are a lot more low shots in the first Pacific Rim of these mammoth machines to give you the sheer sense of scale and weight. The way most of the robot action is filmed in Uprising - rapid and at shoulder height - makes it feel like normal people smashing around on a play set.
I really wanted them to lean in with this movie, personally. Go Evangelion, like Guillermo was originally going to do. Or go Gurren lagaan and have Gypsy smush Scrapper where its missing head is supposed to be. GATTAI!
In the end it's a serviceable sequel to a serviceable original.
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Should I try and track down a DBOX theater for this? I was going to see it in IMAX when I go to the mainland next week.
Mine is already on the way (along with a batch of PR:U figures
Scott Eastwood is morphing into Clint at a reallly, really rapid pace.
I really like movies where characters speak different languages, but understand each other. It shouldn't be too far fetched in this Pacific Rim universe that both Chinese and English are taught at public schools.
It also sets up a lot of great joke opportunities.
It was the first role for Eastwood where I actually liked his performance and character,
edit: Another standout performance was Tian Jing, who was the female lead in The Great Wall. Most of her speaking was in Chinese, because her English is terrible but I didn't mind it. Put her in more movies, please.
There'll always be someone saying "that can't/won't work!", to which one can simply point to the big daddy... Star Wars. All of them. In which those moments are always awesome.
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It was way better than it had any right to be.
My only complaint is that the mech designs weren't as good as the original Pacific Rim, but you can tell what was originally just Transformers levels of phoned in had a lot of work put behind it so it at least echoed the original.
Now give me my damn Pacific Rim prequel with Del Toro at the helm goddammit!
I loved it. Maybe reviews lowered my expectations, but it was much better than I thought it would be sans the almost forgettable score. I thought they had some good use of licensed music, but nothing musically came close to the Beckett brothers swagging down the hallway to the main theme with their dope bomber jackets.
Guillermo del Toro would never have done something like that. He sorta tried to have things make sense.
Compared to the first movie the second of your spoiled complaints doesn’t make the most sense.
At all.
Boyega and Eastwood were good, but man
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Frankly, it was better than I thought it would be. The fights were decent but could've been better (no real "oh shit" moments, and no scenes that made you think that you were gaining something watching it in a theater). I hesitate to say this about a kaiju movie, but they could've done with some more run time to breathe a little more, particularly on the characterization front.
But if you enjoyed the first one you will likely enjoy this one. Just don't go in expecting Citizen Kane.
Not true.
For the rest:
Either you're content with the argument that both movies do the same thing in that regard, in which case I'd say it's fine once, but not twice, or you can argue that there's a qualitative difference between the movies (humanity prepared for another assault, more pilots, more funding, media surrounding the movie) which wasn't translated well onto the big screen.
The problem is exacerbated by the fact that we ultimately only got one robot vs kaiju fight.
As stated above, the one characters ability to..(many issues to follow)
Even worse was the fact that that Jaeger came back at the end, piloted remotely by a CEO character who should not have been piloting it, upgraded for no apparent reason, to play a pivotal part? Saturday Morning Cartoon time, I guess.
So, so stupid.
The "twist" of Newt being the main bad person was fine and even well-done. His reluctance to help the other scientist with his rocket boosters makes even more sense in retrospect. I daresay it was actually well-written.
The ripper swarms sewing the Kaiju into a bigger Kaiju was just odd and weird and unwanted by me. They should have merged organically.
Despite the twist of Newt actually being well-written, I was actually disappointed to see a Kaiju by the end, if I'm being honest. The movie had actually built up what was, for me, a VERY interesting potential plot. The Kaiju are banished for now, Jaegers exist, maybe this corporation is building Jaegers AND WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD?
Robot versus Robot interested me far more than Kaiju. I was hoping that's what would happen with a breach maybe opening at the end as the "civil war" of human versus human had a disastrous side effect? Alas, no, we can't have the corporation be evil. They're just unwitting puppets.
At least all the kid pilots except one lived? No, that was dumb, too.
Finally....the major retcon. The Kaiju were going for Fuji in the first film? No they weren't! What the hell is that insanity?
That was too big of a retcon and I felt insulted.
John Boyega was good, at least. Once we got past the horrible product placement at the beginning of the film. I do hope OREO cookies gets a boost out of it, though, I do love them.
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Weird thing about the retcon was...
I guess they did that for added urgency that really wasn't needed.
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To the last of the spoilers, the retcon, yeah.
I mean "They were always headed towards Mt. Fuji" is idiotic. No, beyond idiotic. They all come from the same point, if they all had the same end point then how did Knifehead wind up in Alaska?
Also idiotic because...
I agree that the plot elements described in spoilers on this page (including the reveal of the primary foe) was good, perhaps even great.
Some things that mainly caught me included
Also the retcons mentioned on this page, it seemed like they were on the verge of something sensible and then went 'remember that Analog/Nuclear line in the first one? Let's do that, but harder.'
Not a dealbreaker if they end up making a third film, but I won't be rushing out to see it again or buy the Bluray, y'know?
I want to point out one thing I really liked.
The director of this show was the show runner for the Spartacus TV show some years back.
There's a point where