A look back at Guillermo Del Toro and Travis Beacham's 2013 kaiju vs mecha film Pacific Rim and the short-lived franchise it spawned. What were its influences? Where did it succeed or fail? Why was Pacific Rim: Uprising such doodoo? All this and a ranking of the series' mechs and kaiju!

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