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This movie is a vast wish fulfillment for kaiju-lovers. Guillermo del Toro clearly shows he is one of "us" and gives us exactly what we'd want. Big nasty scary monsters (yet somehow all clearly derivatives of our basic quad-limbed, bipedal forms) and robots that are big-ass Transformers without the cutesy gimmicks and with a lot more sumo style.
Attempting to translate any of this into real reality would cause your brain to hurt. You just have to accept that it exists in its own sort of fantasy universe and move on. Given that, you have to evaluate the film on two bases: how does it treat its fantasy elements and how does it handle its human elements? On both counts, I think the writers do better than I expected.
( But I also have to talk about the punch-ups, and there will be a spoiler, so I cut )
A solid 7 or 8 of 10 overall and I hope they do a sequel.
Attempting to translate any of this into real reality would cause your brain to hurt. You just have to accept that it exists in its own sort of fantasy universe and move on. Given that, you have to evaluate the film on two bases: how does it treat its fantasy elements and how does it handle its human elements? On both counts, I think the writers do better than I expected.
( But I also have to talk about the punch-ups, and there will be a spoiler, so I cut )
A solid 7 or 8 of 10 overall and I hope they do a sequel.
