Unfortunately, Pacific Rim might be the latest victim of Hollywood mis-marketing. The result is a cleverly self-aware and marvelously entertaining experience. Its clear and effective reverence for the earnest action movies and Japanese monster flicks of the director’s childhood meshes perfectly with its existence as a brilliant action/monster film. Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim does for homage what The Cabin in the Woods and This Is The End did for satire. These movies share characteristics that make them part of an exciting trend in Hollywood films that exist as both satires and as superb examples of the genres they are satirizing. In his recent review of This Is The End, Søren compared the comedy to 2011’s The Cabin in the Woods.
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