Pacific Rim - Enzian Theater

35mm Screening!
Featuring a pre-film Science on Screen® presentation!

Earth, 2025. With the world teetering on the brink of destruction after the unforeseen first Kaiju attack from the depths of the Pacific Ocean, humankind’s bold answer to the monster problem hits a wall. But you only fail when you stop trying. As a retired pilot from the discontinued Jaeger defense program and an untried novice team up to rekindle hope, their dual-controlled mega-fighting machines are the only thing standing between the deep-sea aliens and our future. However, the question remains. Can the last of the mecha defenders cancel the doomsday at our door?

2013, USA/Mexico, 131 minutes, in English/Japanese/Cantonese/Mandarin, Directed by Guillermo del Toro, Rated PG-13

An initiative of the COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE, with major support from the ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION.

“Guillermo del Toro is more than a filmmaker, he's a fantasy visionary with an outsized imagination and a fanatical specificity, a creator of out-of-this world universes carefully conceived down to the smallest detail. His particular gifts and passions are on display in the long-awaited Pacific Rim and the results are spectacular.”
– Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
“There’s no shortage of brains, brawn, eye candy, wit and even some poetry in this epic battle between massive lizard-like monsters and 25-story-high robots operated by humans.”
– Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST
“Every monster-movie archetype is here, from nerdy scientists (Charlie Day and Burn Gorman) to hard-stare leaders (Idris Elba) with a penchant for 11th-hour inspirational speeches. (Watching the former Stringer Bell bellow about “canceling the apocalypse!” is one of those great, giddy pleasures you didn’t know you needed.)”
– Keith Uhlich, TIME OUT
“There’s no denying Pacific Rim is the best film of its kind.”
– Marjorie Baumgarten, AUSTIN CHRONICLE