“Pacific Rim” could easily be considered the love child of Godzilla and Transformers. Picture Optimus Prime duking it out with a couple of Godzilla’s evolved offspring all over the world.

Directed by Guillermo del Toro, Pacific Rim is the story of planet Earth’s struggle for survival against colossal monsters from another dimension called Kaiju. In the effort to push back the invading Kaiju, the people of Earth put aside old differences and come together to make giant robots called Jaegers, piloted by two people. Translated from Japanese Kaiju means “giant monster,” while Jaeger means “hunter” in German showing the humans’ attempt to stay at the top of the food chain.

Pacific Rim stars Charlie Hunnam as the main protagonist, well-known for his acting in the television series “Sons of Anarchy,” and is joined by actors Idris Elba (“Prometheus,” “Thor”), Rinko Kichuki (“The Brothers Bloom”) and Charlie Day (“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”). Once a pilot for a Jaeger, Raleigh Becket (Hunnam) is called back into action when the fight against the Kaiju turns desperate and total annihilation is looming on the horizon.

The movie wastes no time in putting the audience into the action, showing the back story of Becket and why he left being a Jaeger pilot in the first place. It also explains the concept called the drift, the way that the two pilots are able to synch their minds together and act as one inside the Jaeger.

With only a few Jaegers left in the world, del Toro tried to make it a diverse crowd of pilots but he only succeeded in portraying stereotypes. One of the Jaegers was piloted by a Russian brother and sister whose acting was as hard as their Iron Curtain-esque robot. The second Jaeger was piloted by a set of Chinese triplets who had a third arm. That was actually really cool, but it didn’t need to be painted completely crimson. The only Jaeger pilot combo that breaks the mold is that of Becket and a rookie trainee Mako Mori (Rinko Kichuki), but even then it’s the white male showing the Asian female around a position of power.

The rest of the movie tries to slip in the occasional bits of story in between the action, and when it did it was mainly through Charlie Day’s character Dr. Newton Geiszler. By experimenting on the Kaiju brain, he reveals that there is much more to the attacks than simple animal instinct, hinting at a much more ancient and sentient threat.

When it comes down to it, “Pacific Rim” is a movie of expectations. If you go hoping for commentary on society’s integration with technology, you’ll be disappointed. However, if you want to be simply entertained by fast-paced 20-story tall action accompanied by the occasional joke, you won’t be disappointed.