Pacific Rim 2

Pacific Rim's very own Last Jedi
== The antichrist of sequels ==
Pacific Rim 2, or Pacific Rim: Uprising is a sequel to the beloved Pacific Rim, a film where giant robots must be built to punch giant monsters in the face. Pacific Rim 2 in general has been extremely poorly received, many Pacific Rim fans pretending it doesn't exist, similarly to Avatar fans when regarding M. Night's movie. In the Council, however, rather than pretend it doesn't exist, it is instead only referenced as pretty much the standard for anything and everything bad with film.
Meme Lord, in particular, hates this film above all others, and to date nothing has taken its place at the bottom of the barrel, though Doctor Strange 2 came close. Spooderman and Tactician are the only other memebers who have seen it, Spooderman seeing it as awful and Tactician just feeling disappointed. Meme Lord has not seen the film since its release in theaters, but thanks to the amount of crap that occurs in the film and a massive review he wrote about it, it is still quite easy to pick apart.
The movie was first mentioned in the Council by Spooderman on 8/19/2018, stating it was cringe. Pretty much every other time it has been mentioned since then has been by Meme Lord complaining about it.
== So why is it actually bad ==
The Review of the Worst Film ever made does a much more thorough breakdown of why this film sucks, but it will be summarized here:
=== Plot ===
Despite the victory at the end of the last movie, for some reason, the world is gone to shrek and everyday people and terrorists are making their own jaegers and just walking around with them and doing a little tomfoolery so there has to be a jaeger police force. Anyways since the world is more shrekt up than it was in the last movie for some reason despite 10 years passing or whatever, the economy doesnt exist anymore so you watch a guy trade an oscar for a package of oreos. Thats a real thing that happens in the movies anyways to make ends meet and get more oreos the main guy, the made-up son of pentecost, the guy who died in the last movie, steals jaeger tech from downed jaegers which leads him to finding a 14 year old girl who built a jaeger by herself in her garage. A 14 year old girl who built a jaeger by herself in her garage. A 14 year old girl who built a jaeger by herself in her garage. So anyways 14 year old girl who built a jaeger by herself in her garage promptly takes it on a test run for the first time and goes on a little rampage through town with oreo man and they're caught promptly by the aforementioned jaeger police and instead of being disciplined at all they get free rides to a jaeger academy. Jaeger academy. Theres a jaeger acadamy anyways there they meet a bunch of teenagers because of course theyre teenagers why would adults do anything in this movie ok lets hurry this up remember Newt the scientist from the first movie well now hes evil because hes been doing the mind sussy with a kaiju brain (not kidding they have this whole scene where he does actual mind sussery with it) and he's got big evil plans. So uh here we go lets just say it all at once so Newt here, has succesfully gotten a kaiju brain inside the head of every single jaeger built by this japanese mega-corp. The brains, when activated, 'infect' the jaegers, and grow little kaiju grimblys all over them and inside them to fit them like a suit of armor basically. IDK how nobody ever noticed this but lets move on. Newt additionally, created an entire jaeger all on his own, called obsidian fury, which is independently controlled by a kaiju brain, and it goes around causing problems. It is never once mentioned how it is maintained or fueled or how newt built it. IDK how nobody ever noticed this but lets move on. Newt additionally built a kaiju/jaeger hybrid army in the basement of the japanese megacorporation's hq building, like im talking thousands of the things, and they are all specifically designed to rip apart kaijus and then weld them together to make a big megakaiju right so so so so so the the guys the jaegers are all rebuilt in an hour after an attack and they go and fight THIS MOVIE SUCKS SO MUCH they gotta fight them the kaijus because uh the actual plan of the kaijus get this right the actual plan of the kaijus the whole time was to kill themselves in a volcano in japan that was the plan that was
=== Characters ===
Every character save the main 2 are annoying teenagers who yell a lot and die, nobody can remember their names cuz they're irrelevant, but the main guy is a made-up character who is the son of pentecost but uhhh he didnt exist in the first movie cuz reasons oh yeah also remember Mako she dies like after 2 minutes of screentime. No other returning characters except the scientists
=== Setting ===
Every single shot is required to happen in a fake cgi city with perfect weather conditions, clear skies and a sun that's directly overhead at all times, there seriously isn't like a single good shot in this entire movie
=== Theme ===
Theme of the first movie was teamwork and hope and joining together to fight for the greater good, this movie is about uhhhhhhh not lying to family members i guess and trading oscars for oreos
=== Mood ===
Remember the dark mood of the first film well this movie is so goofy that they literally play the troll song
=== Acting ===
The only passable performance is by Newt and mr. oreos the rest is comically bad there are nick sitcom actors who can do better than these screaming kids
=== Design ===
Every jaeger looks like a power ranger, they all move like ninjas and there is no way to tell them apart except by color, the only name anybody remembers is “bracer phoenix” and you do not know what jaeger it belongs to dont lie. The main jaeger which is just a ripoff of gipsy danger (but hes got TWO nuclear reactors!!) These may be some sleek, cool-looking robot designs, but all realism is completely lost. 
=== SFX ===
Besides the fact that every sound just sounds like toned-down pots and pans hitting each other, the sound design is somewhat tolerable at times but is otherwise completely forgettable. There is a scene where bracer phoenix thats right the one jaeger that you remember the name of uses these machine guns that are as long as school busses out of its chest and they just sound like toned down .22's.
=== CGI ===
The reason every fight is in broad daylight with no clouds is so they only have to have one light source to render, because this shrek looks so freaking awful and It's dangerously close to being far worse than a marvel movie green screen. Also during production it's quite clear just by looking at the trailers alone that they basically redid most of it because of how awful the lighting was. They couldn’t even be bothered to add damage to the jaegers at all during a fight. A jaeger will get cut multiple times or have the shrek beaten out of it but have no visible damage, just good as new. This is the case for the entire movie unless the jaeger is getting ripped apart. One exception being when gipsy’s visor comes off but that was just plot moment so dumb girl could get inside. There was a trailer for this movie showing how they did most of the vfx, and they used this brand new google app for the cg where they literally showed someone dragging and dropping Gipsy Danger Ripoff into a city on their tablet like it was a frickin png file. 
=== Score ===
Not a single note from a single track in this movie is memorable. Its music fits with the scene, but it is unfortunately so unoriginal and bland that it's basically just noise. The only thing memorable perhaps is when they played the original main theme from Pacific Rim during a montage scene.
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