The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)
Fun! Funny! …Just not as fun or funny as The Lego Movie.
Pacific Rim Uprising (2018)
This is primarily a transparent pitch for Chinese audiences, right down to niche jokes about the pronunciation of Mandarin.
The Lego Movie (2014)
In an era where blockbuster movies direct their immense budgets towards overcoming the restrictions of cinema, The Lego Movie succeeds by embracing its limitations. Those limitations are found in its animation; computer-generated, sure, but constructed from Lego blocks in their millions. Directors/screenwriters Phil Lord and Christopher Miller get a lot of mileage out of their…
Pacific Rim (2013)
Guillermo del Toro usually brings his own unique designs to blockbuster filmmaking; Pacific Rim, surprisingly, feels more like a pastiche. It’s visually a hodge-podge of Godzilla, Neon Genesis Evangelion and the Matrix sequels, and is filled with overt references – there’s a Star Wars quote, and GLaDOS from Portal voices the film’s computers. The lack…
