Exclusive Pacific Rim featurette is all about the monstrous Kaiju: watch now

By Matt Maytum
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Featuring an introduction from Charlie Day, plus some killer footage and concept art

Guillermo del Toro’s sci-fi spectacular Pacific Rim introduces giant robots (Jaegers) designed to fight the biggest threat the planet has ever faced: Kaiju.

Not up on your Kaiju? Then the featurette we’ve got below - introduced by star Charlie Day - will bring you immediately up to speed.

Featuring some incredible footage of the Kaiju going head-to-head with the Jaegers, the video also features some incredible production art, with an explanation as to how the final beasts were chosen.

Plus, del Toro, Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi and Idris Elba are on hand to talk you through the alien nasties.

Watch the featurette in full below:

Pacific Rim opens in the UK on 12 July 2013.

Matt Maytum
Matt Maytum
Editor, Total Film

I'm the Editor at Total Film magazine, overseeing the running of the mag, and generally obsessing over all things Nolan, Kubrick and Pixar. Over the past decade I've worked in various roles for TF online and in print, including at GamesRadar+, and you can often hear me nattering on the Inside Total Film podcast. Bucket-list-ticking career highlights have included reporting from the set of Tenet and Avengers: Infinity War, as well as covering Comic-Con, TIFF and the Sundance Film Festival.