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Reel Reviews: Big robots, big monsters

We say, 91ƵGiant monster movie, loud!91Ƶ
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What you see is what you get in Pacific Rim: Uprising. (Universal Pictures image)

Jake Pentacost (John Boyega) is a Jaeger Pilot, like his father before him. Controlling giant robots, sent to defend the world against the Kaiju, monsters sent from another dimension, Pentacost teams up with rival pilot Nate Lambert (Scott Eastwood) and a young hacker Amara (Cailee Spaeny). Together with some old friends and enemies, the world will shake under the weight of their wrath.

We say, 91ƵGiant monster movie, loud!91Ƶ

TAYLOR: Don91Ƶt go to Pacific Rim: Uprising expecting to be able to take a twenty dollar nap. It91Ƶs too dang loud. Maybe the speakers were cranked in the theatre, the trailers and commercials did seem pretty loud too. Maybe I91Ƶm just getting old.

HOWE: Yes you are. I know we slagged the first instalment off with how bad it was, mainly due to Charlie Day being loud and obnoxious. I found this next part to be pretty good and I can91Ƶt believe I just said that. Yes Day is still loud, yes he is still very obnoxious but I didn91Ƶt mind him this time round.

TAYLOR: He91Ƶs only in it for a couple minutes. I had low expectations for Pacific Rim: Uprising. The film, like its predecessor, asks so many leaps of of the audience that everything becomes meaningless. The Jaegers, (the giant robots) are piloted by two people that have to 91Ƶmind meld91Ƶ then strap themselves into a device whereby they mimic the actions they want the robot to do. So if the robot is running, it91Ƶs because the pilots inside are running. Same works for punching, grabbing, jumping through the air, etc. This is just too silly. I could imagine such machines as possible before I could imagine any real utility. Somebody said, 91ƵLet91Ƶs have giant robots (that aren91Ƶt Transformers) fight giant monsters (that aren91Ƶt Godzilla.)91Ƶ It is doubtful that they also then said, 91Ƶand let plot points fall where they may,91Ƶ yet this seems to have been the case. If you91Ƶre not paying attention, it isn91Ƶt going to matter.

HOWE: The story line is very stupid, the monsters look like they are made out of playdough and the acting is way over the top. Yet for some reason I had fun watching it. Maybe it was because I didn91Ƶt take it seriously. Maybe because it is silly and I didn91Ƶt enjoy the first one I had lower expectations for this and I was able to disengage my brain. Whatever the reason, you are able to take the younger kids, it is clean, no swearing, it has action and it is not so scary that they will have nightmares.

Howe gives Pacific Rim: Uprising 3 Transformer lookalikes out of 5.

Taylor gives it 2 useful stealth bombers out of 5.

91Ƶ Brian Taylor and Peter Howe are film reviewers based in Vernon.



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