To me the film looked like that bit that happens at the end of every Power Rangers episode where all the little robots form up to a great big robot and then they fight a big monster on the moon. That was my first experience of the Mecha and Kaiju kind of thing.
Yeah, it is nothing like Evangelion unless you think films should be judged based on a simple sentence summary "giant piloted robots protect cities from giant weird looking monsters from another dimension bent on destroying everything".
I think you can tell that the authors of Pacific Rim are fans of Evangelion but unfortunately a significant portion of the Evangelion fan-base are the type to misconstrue shout-out references with copying from the one true God that is NGE.
Yeah, it is nothing like Evangelion unless you think films should be judged based on a simple sentence summary "giant piloted robots protect cities from giant weird looking monsters from another dimension bent on destroying everything".
I think you can tell that the authors of Pacific Rim are fans of Evangelion but unfortunately a significant portion of the Evangelion fan-base are the type to misconstrue shout-out references with copying from the one true God that is NGE.