Why pacific rim is bad

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Read more about cookies here. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Parent reviews for Pacific Rim. Common Sense says Loud robots vs. Based on our expert review. Based on 27 reviews. Based on 79 reviews. Add your rating. Parents say 27 Kids say Parent Written by gruntso March 23, Fun action, loud and engaging, but the monsters can be scary My 9yr old loved this movie up to a point. He asked me to turn it off when when a baby Kaiju appears. It was too up close and too scary for him.

He is a sensitive soul. When it was all at much more of a distance, he was fine and really enjoyed it. Overall, though, he loved it and has been inspired to draw Jaegers of his own creation. I think you could watch it with your younger ones and just be aware of their state, ready to turn it off. This review Helped me decide 1. Had useful details 1. Read my mind.

Report this review. Parent Written by Duggles July 16, It was nice to have a film that spoke to the positive aspects of humanism. Our ability to stand up and help each other, to come together. It's rare in current media to have a film actually aimed at children in that awkward preteen age that promotes a positive message.

It can be pulpy in the dialogue, and parts are a little dark, but overall I really appreciated characters that went beyond the typical Hollywood good-guy bad-guy mentality. As a Dad of two young girls, it was also nice to have a feminine, but strong, female lead that was in the film for more than the purpose of constant rescuing and eye candy.

Honestly, this is the big action Hollywood film that has the wholesome values people have been asking for. I highly recommend it for families, maybe not super young kids, but ten and above should be fine stay through the first part of the credits.

Loved it! This title contains: Positive Messages. Positive role models. Helped me decide. Read my mind 1. Adult Written by Taliesin R. January 18, Dull characters and disturbing alien dismemberment Boring characters fighting glowing cgi aliens with glowing cgi, unoriginal, robots.

Aliens have blue glowing blood and 'alien' organs. It's not exactly gory the normal way, but it's still quite horrific. Adult Written by Johnem95 July 29, The perfect definition of a "Summer popcorn flick". If your child is into monsters or dinosaurs , robots, or anything giant, chances are that your child will be asking you to take them to see Pacific Rim. Adding weight on the negative side of the scale were a series of underwhelming trailers.

But on the positive side, again: The movie is directed by Guillermo del Toro. So now that Pacific Rim has landed ashore, which is it? A feebly written special-effects-fest explicitly engineered for the international market? Or a work of next-generation visual imagination? The answer, I fear, is both--though the balance tilts somewhat toward the former.

The story begins in the near-future, when an interstellar portal opens up deep in the Pacific Ocean and belches forth a lumbering monstrosity that lays waste to San Francisco. Though this "Kaiju"--the term is a genial nod to the Japanese giant-monster movies of the s and '60s--is ultimately defeated by the military, another materializes six months later, and then another, and another.

Humankind quickly comes to the conclusion that tagline alert to fight monsters, we must create monsters of our own--specifically, towering mechanical men called "Jaegers. This arrangement works out nicely for several years, with the implicit contest between Japanese Godzilloids and German engineering consistently favoring the latter.

But in , the balance of power shifts as a new and more formidable species of Kaiju surfaces. Pacific Rim was made in service to the genre, to celebrate something larger than itself. And that makes its sequel, Pacific Rim Uprising , all the more depressing of an experience as that film primarily serves itself. A bad film can still receive merit for simply being better than its predecessor.

As a film, Pacific Rim Uprising is workaday Hollywood fluff. In its laziness and bumbling, it actually goes so far as to make the original worse too. One of the things that becomes abundantly clear within the first few minutes of Pacific Rim is how ripe the world that del Toro creates is for a prequel. Again, one of the best things about Pacific Rim was how unflinchingly it stuck to the anime approach to characterisation. Jake is not. Boyega is a budding mega-star.

With a producing credit on the film, it seems like he was pretty invested in the project and the performance which makes you feel like it was all his decision when he uses the opportunity to pretend to be a Hollywood action star rather than being his own.

In order to flesh out this point, now would be a good time to bring up the major Hollywood connection that Pacific Rim does have, aesthetically speaking. When you settle into Pacific Rim , it becomes clear what Western framework del Toro had decided to hang his film on. I remember Independence Day , yeah. So this will end with an alien with a big, flat, head looking at something nuclear counting down before it explodes and saves the entire world.

Bearing this in mind, the similarities between Pacific Rim Uprising and the belated sequel Independence Day: Resurgence become increasingly apparent. Right down to the final scene, in which the good guys promise a turning of the tables, where the humans travel to destroy the aliens, in a sequel which will almost certainly never be made because this film puts everything in its cart before its horse.

And not just because of miscasting. As Usher was, Boyega is partnered up with a shifting array of loosely connected side characters including but not limited to : a handsomely square-jawed blonde male co-pilot with whom he has a rocky personal history and must reluctantly work with again, a male scientist from the first film who is motivated by their residual psychic connection with the alien species antagonists of the first film, a male Chinese commander who is blown up in his command centre by the alien antagonists and a plethora of underwritten youngsters who are incidentally all top gun pilots.

To call them pacing issues would feel like an understatement. Most of the film is expositional dialogue. One of the precise elements that del Toro captured from Independence Day , that made Pacific Rim work so well, was the satisfying sensation of simple story structure.