The bizarre giant robots fighting Kaiju spectacle that is Pacific Rim has always been obsessed with brains. The first movie built up a whole pseudoscience about how piloting a 288-ft mecha requires ...

Mako, Stacker Pentecost’s adoptive daughter and one of the two heroes of the first Pacific Rim does appear in Uprising, once again played by Rinko Kikuchi. She’s not piloting a Jaeger though, as by ...

Guillermo del Toro's "Pacific Rim" was a slightly better-than-average spectacle, a modern assemblage of combatting CGI colossi rooted in camp-classic Toho rubber-monster features. It had its own ...

Pacific Rim Uprising is a little like the way George Costanza describes how women view him as a dating prospect in the Seinfeld episode “The Chicken Roaster.” George compares himself to a commercial ...

The giant monsters are back to tear up the world in “Pacific Rim: Uprising,” the sequel to Guillermo del Toro’s “Godzilla”-like movie that was all about skyscraper-size robots battling ...

This sequel corrects some of the original’s biggest mistakes while also highlighting many of its more eccentric charms. The biggest difference between “Pacific Rim” and its perfunctory new sequel can ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Universal Pictures and Legendary have released ...

So, there’s a trailer for the new Pacific Rim sequel. It’s got those giant robot mechs—aka “jaegers”—and even a few crazy-ass kaiju. Star Wars: The Force Awakens star John Boyega toplines this time ...

Five years after its debut, Pacific Rim is still a movie with the power to divide the Polygon newsroom between those who found the film’s flaws to be lovable barnacles on an otherwise magnificent ...

UPDATE, writethru: Legendary/Universal’s Pacific Rim: Uprising came in slightly higher than Saturday estimates, topping $150M worldwide on its opening weekend with $150.5M. The debut clocked $122.5M ...