A look back at Guillermo Del Toro and Travis Beacham's 2013 kaiju vs mecha film Pacific Rim and the shortlived 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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