Director Guillermo del Toro presented his ambitious giant monsters vs. giant robots epic Pacific Rim to fans at Saturday's San Diego Comic-Con. Cast members Charlie Hunnam, Charlie Day, Rinko Kikuchi and the one and only Ron Perlman were in attendance, along with Legendary Pictures' Thomas Tull.

What is Pacific Rim about? Here's the official synopsis to shed some light: "When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes—a washed up former pilot and an untested trainee who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind's last hope against the mounting apocalypse."

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OH BOY. What a show Guillermo and Legendary put on for fans at SDCC! First, not one but three huge screens were utilized in Hall H for the Pacific Rim footage presentation. It was essentially an extended trailer, complete with music and finished VFX. The footage was, as GDT put it, "robo-porn" and it was freaking amazing. It makes Michael Bay's Transformers movies look like they were shot for a buck and a quarter. Imagine a mixture of Transformers, Gatchaman and Godzilla and you have some idea of what Pacific Rim has in store.The trailer showed the piloted robot duking it out at sea with a Kaiju intercut with the pilots as they are given a rousing speech from Idris Elba's commander who declares, "Today we are canceling the apocalypse!" Del Toro announced that after SDCC, though, Pacific Rim is going into a media blackout until year's end. So only those lucky 6000+ people in Hall H today will know just how elfin' awesome Pacific Rim looks for the next six months until the trailer is released.Del Toro explained that he did not want his robots brought to life via motion-capture because he didn't want them to move like humans so they went old school CG animation. He also told his animators not to just have the monsters standing there moving their claws during a fight like henchmen in a bad martial arts movie just standing there posing until the hero whips their ass. All the Kaiju were created from the team's own imagination and were not patterned after preexisting creatures from legends or depicted in other films or media.

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Pacific Rim opens July 12, 2013.