{"id":43731,"date":"2014-07-21T22:46:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T04:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/21\/movie-review-pacific-rim-2013.html"},"modified":"2014-07-22T14:03:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T20:03:48","slug":"movie-review-pacific-rim-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/21\/movie-review-pacific-rim-2013.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: "Pacific Rim" (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"
It's Father\/Daughter Semi-Week, so it's time to watch a movie with Giant Robots and Kaiju!<\/i><\/p>\n

No, it's not a great movie. But it's a great Giant Robot vs Kaiju<\/i> movie!<\/p>\n

Honest Trailers:\u00a0Honest Trailers – Pacific Rim<\/a>
How It Should Have Ended:\u00a0How Pacific Rim Should Have Ended<\/a>
Everything Wrong With:\u00a0Everything Wrong With Pacific Rim In 9 Minutes Or Less<\/a>\ufeff<\/div>\n

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A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd review of Pacific Rim (2013)<\/a>
\n Okay, so, yes, there are elements of this film that are ridiculous on the face of it, and other elements that are ridiculous as soon as you think a moment about them … But, hell, it’s a Giant Robot and a Kaiju movie, and it does splendd as both. The robotic stuff is marvelous, believable and feelable. The kaiju bits are a bit more repetitive (the variations are not variable enough). But, damn, it’s just as much fun as a movie set in usually dar…\n <\/p>\n

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