Pacific Rim Uprising gains in Jaeger-on-kaiju action, it loses in originality

What can you expect when a big robot movie comes to a theater near you?

Co-written and directed by 2018 Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro, the first Pacific Rim drew on the traditions of kaiju and mecha, added some funky neural science, and was gross and weird enough to be both recognizably a del Toro movie and often a lot of fun