The first trailer to Guillermo del Toro’s monsters vs. robots epic, Pacific Rim, has hit the web. And what trailer it is, teasing an alien threat, giant robots, giant monsters, and an epic scale sci-fi story line set in a devastated future Earth. What’s not to get excited about?
This is the type of movie I could only dream of ever seeing brought to life on the big screen as a kid growing up hooked on watching Voltron, Robotech and Transformers. Plus with del Toro at the helm, who brought us Pan’s Labyrinth, we may get all the CG eye candy above and beyond the level of the big screen Transformers series, with characters who don’t deliver cringe-worthy dialogue. Official synopsis:
“When legions of 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.”
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