Pacific Rim: The Black review: Netflix's anime lacks the movies' kaiju fun
Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim and its sequel film are nonsensical smackdowns inspired by classic tokusatsu stories and giant-robot anime. They’re premised on an endless conflict between giant military-owned robots called Jaegers and equally enormous monsters called kaiju. Both movies featured paper-thin plots, designed to bring these two forces to blows. Once the creatures and mecha are locked in combat, the films provide a fun spectacle filled with cheesy lines and campy Power Rangers-esque villains. The films gleefully center on cliché action-movie lines like “Today we are canc...