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So I saw Pacific Rim: Now With More Kaiju this evening, after cautiously checking three reviews, and it was actually better than what it said on the tin. The plot makes no sense. Well, there is the kind of sense of "we need a battle on an ice sheet with glaciers" and "this bit is in Japan I want to include Mt Fuji for pretty", but not any other kind of sense where consequences follow actions, particularly much, unless they lead to More Jägers Hit Kaiju. The director has a singular vision, and it was shared by the editor: this is a surprisingly tightly edited film. del Toro kept a credit for art direction, as well as producer, and it shows; this is very much the same visual universe as the last one. What did work are the people. This is a movie that needed to handle a transition to a new near-teenage cast, and it does it better than Star Wars managed, by leaving out the sulking. There is a complete lack of discussion of any philosophy of the Drift; it seems to fit, these are late-teens not undergrads, after all. Hermann & Newt are very much themselves. There is a pleasing lack of Hollywood lazy-stereotype easy outs. It's not the layered depths of movie of its predecessor, but it is short and does credit to the genre, and had me wanting to see the next one.
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So I saw Pacific Rim: Now With More Kaiju this evening, after cautiously checking three reviews, and it was actually better than what it said on the tin. The plot makes no sense. Well, there is the kind of sense of "we need a battle on an ice sheet with glaciers" and "this bit is in Japan I want to include Mt Fuji for pretty", but not any other kind of sense where consequences follow actions, particularly much, unless they lead to More Jägers Hit Kaiju. The director has a singular vision, and it was shared by the editor: this is a surprisingly tightly edited film. del Toro kept a credit for art direction, as well as producer, and it shows; this is very much the same visual universe as the last one. What did work are the people. This is a movie that needed to handle a transition to a new near-teenage cast, and it does it better than Star Wars managed, by leaving out the sulking. There is a complete lack of discussion of any philosophy of the Drift; it seems to fit, these are late-teens not undergrads, after all. Hermann & Newt are very much themselves. There is a pleasing lack of Hollywood lazy-stereotype easy outs. It's not the layered depths of movie of its predecessor, but it is short and does credit to the genre, and had me wanting to see the next one.