'Pacific Rim' Review: There Be Monsters in Here Somewhere

By Alonso Duralde LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - I would rather have one Chewbacca than an entire clone army." That's how director Angela Robinson reacted when suits at Disney suggested that her film "Herbie: Fully Loaded" feature a computer-generated VW Beetle in the title role rather than a nuts-and-bolts car. Would that Guillermo del Toro had had the same attitude regarding 'Pacific Rim," his new big-budget take on giant robots (here known as "jaegers," German for "hunters") versus giant monsters (which, as any Comic-Con all-access pass-holder can tell you, are known in Japanese as "kaiju"). ...



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