Oh my God that was one of the best summer popcorn films I've ever seen! Guillermo del Toro, my man, as usual you hit the sweet spot fusing geekdom, art, and spectacular action into a delicious ball of filmmaking.

This movie is just a treat. A sweet invitation to revisit your childhood on the big screen. This is everything those atrocious Transformers movies should have been. Anyone who compares Pacific Rim to Michael Bay's Transformers films needs to be punched right in the jaw. There is such a distinct difference between this film and that garbage that making that comparison will make me disregard any opinion you ever have about film.

Pacific Rim works because it treats its subject with respect. It doesn't take itself too seriously, but everything about this movie radiates with Guillermo del Toro's affection for the subject matter. This isn't a shameless blockbuster, or a cash in, it is a love letter to a genre that has never seen a truly spectacular live-action feature.

It doesn't have a deep plot, but it does what it has to do. The characters are archtypes, but in the same way the shows you watched as a child used archtypes and that's all a film of this nature really needs in order to work.

If you are someone who just can't accept the premise of giant robots fighting giant monsters than you will probably not enjoy it, but for people who grew up with these kinds of stories Pacific Rim is everything our inner child ever wanted to see on the silver screen.