Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Pacific Rim’ was an elaborately constructed love letter to giant monster/mecha anime and movies of the past. Built on an extremely silly premise of monsters being sent out from a hole in the bottom of the ocean, the film delivered a spectacle worth beholding on nothing but the biggest possible screen money could afford.

While the pace of the film is generally healthy, its comic energy flags every so often. Housefull 3 is salvaged somewhat by a wacky climax in a warehouse of wax models.
But that isn’t enough to dispel the bitter aftertaste of a first half dominated by unpalatable gags