Pacific Rim

"Although assembled with consummate care and obsessive attention to visual detail, 'Pacific Rim' manages only fitful engagement and little in the way of real wonderment, suspense or terror" 

"A staggeringly loud, action-packed FXtravaganza that's both a numbing and pretty entertaining example of its movie species (...) it also really (...) has an attractive cast" 

"What pulls us over the rough spots is the mind meld between del Toro the artist and the child inside him. They both want to astonish us. Geeks everywhere, salute (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)" 

"'Pacific Rim', with its carefree blend of silliness and solemnity, is clearly the product of an ingenious and playful pop sensibility" 

"'Pacific Rim' is big and dumb in a smart way" 

"It is a ridiculously entertaining (...) monster-robot movie that plays like a gigantic version of that “Rock ’Em, Sock ’Em Robots” game from the 1960s, combined with the cheesy wonderfulness (...) of black-and-white Japanese monster movies from the 1950s" 

"There’s no shortage of brains, brawn, eye candy, wit and even some poetry in this epic battle (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"