Monsters Vs Robots action flick that has every cliche imaginable but is still a fair amount of fun if you can turn your brain off. But be warned, you have to turn it wayyyyyyyyyyy off.
Almost no part of the story makes any sense whatsoever, from how the monsters get here, to the things we use to fight them, to a weird plot point about building walls, it's just all an excuse for giant man controlled robots to fight giant modern dinosaurs from another dimension. And the fights are OK, certainly worlds better than anything the Transformers movies have given us. It's just that after we've seen a robot punch or throw a dinosaur for the 30th time, you have to wonder exactly what kind of money goes into building a machine whose biggest asset seems to be that it can throw a punch. Yes there are weapons, but they're only used after a good 5-10 minutes of fisticuffs so the movie can get all it's action in.
The characters and they're troubles are too laughable to really be offensive, so in that sense it's not a complete wash out. Dads and sons at odds, orphans and their guardians, a dog who runs around and two scientists who seem like they'd be just as at home at a chuckle hut as in a laboratory.
Idris Alba, god bless him, he's given the weight of most of the serious dialog but sweet Jesus it was cringe worthy at times watching Stringer Fucking Bell try and humanize this shitty story. I'm thinking I may not have liked this as much as I thought I did, I dunno.
Look, I watched the whole thing and I never felt like it wasn't awful but I never really wanted to turn it off either. So whatever. It's a big dumb movie. There.
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