Pacific Rim, (a movie)

Youngest Son was up for the weekend.  He wanted to see it.  I had never heard of it before.  This was the opening weekend. So after skiing on Saturday, we went to the matinee in the mighty metropolis of Lincoln NH.  It was playing, but by the time the end was reached and the credits rolled, we were the only two people in the theater.  It must have done better somewhere, the Wall St Journal mentioned it in their weekend movie box office piece. 
   It's a giant robot movie.   Same  general idea as the Godzilla movies, except it's robots stamping on the high rises in down town Tokyo instead of Godzilla.  The robots, who got much of the screen time, looked like CGI, rather than modelwork, and  they were pretty good, they moved smoothly,  they even had facial expressions (on robots no less). The robots were big enough to have two man control rooms inside them.  The crew made the robot move by moving their arms and legs.  When the human crew ran inplace in the control room, the robot would run down a Tokyo street.  What was left unsaid is how the two man crew coordinated between them selves.  Like what happens if one crew member swerves left and the other swerves right?    The movie opens with a lot of robot on robot violence.   The robots are all painted the same color, and don't have national insignia painted on their chests, so it's hard to tell the good robot from the bad robot.  About the best I could do was assume the robot that walked away after the fight was the good robot and the one that lay broken on the ground was the bad robot.  Later a bunch of sea monsters surfaced in the harbor and all the robots fought against them.
   None of the cast was anyone I had ever heard of before.   There was a little love interest, a very young chick, assigned as co pilot to the leading man's robot.  I never did catch any of their names.  What little dialog ensued between young chick and  leading man was of the "Keep a stiff upper lip" sort.  What ever sort of relationship they might or might not have enjoyed, it wasn't a lovey dovey one.   Two good points, the camera man kept the camera on the tripod, no shake the camera shots, and he put the lights on, no pure black scenes.  And the soundman did a decent job, most of the dialog was audible and understandable. 
   According to Youngest Son,  this was a sequel to a previous version that had been wildly successful in China.  So that made a sequel, hoping to rake in a bit more money.  Far as I can see, it was aimed at 12-14 year old boys. 
  If this is the future of Hollywood movies, it's gonna be a tough year at the box office.