Guillermo del Toro is the busiest man in Hollywood, though he rarely has anything to show it. It seems the director-writer-producer-etc. always has twenty projects in the works, but they seem to mostly remain in a semi-finished purgatory, if they're lucky. Others get passed off to other directors (The Hobbit) or canceled (At the Mountains of Madness, which del Toro said would have been to similar to Prometheus). However, next year, the visionary director of Pan's Labyrinth, The Devil's Backbone, and the Hellboy movies is back with... a movie about giant aliens from the ocean floor fighting robots.
Alright, it's not the most exciting thing in the world, and it looks like a giant, dumb turd, but it should at least be a fun, giant, dumb turd. It's sort of nice, in the midst of celebrating all the amazing movies that came out this year, to be reminded that idiotic, testosterone-fueled popcorn flicks still exist, and are only months away.
Whether Pacific Rim manages to be more than a Transformers/Cloverfield hybrid remains to be seen, but at least it isn't pretending to be a good movie. It wears its ridiculousness proudly, and I respect it for that.
Pacific Rim opens July 11, 2013. It may be next summer's only original tentpole.
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