STORY: Comic-Con 2012: Del Toro's 'Pacific Rim' Wows With Giant Robots Vs. Monsters

Pacific Rim features a human race fighting giant monsters (Kaijus) using equally massive robots (Jaegers).

Over the summer, the director told The Hollywood Reporter he wanted the film to maintain an emotional core, despite its larger-than-life subject matter.

“I went against the grain. What normally the big blockbusters tend to adopt is a very impersonal, a very cool -- almost the style of a recruitment video for the Army [with] long lenses, steel blues, polished metal,” del Toro said. “I think when you create images that are beautiful about things that are normally not beautiful, they have a haunting sense of poetry.”

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The film from Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures stars Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Ron Perlman and Charlie Day. It hits theaters in 2D and 3D July 12, 2013.