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Pacific Rim The Official Movie Novelization Alexander Irvine Books

Like most novelizations, Pacific Rim: The Official Movie Novelization follows the story of the movie very closely. For those who don't know the story of Pacific Rim, let me recap it real quick. Portal appeared in the ocean and giant monsters started coming through and wreaking s***. To combat these creatures humanity built giant robots to fight back.

Pros:
+Stays close to the plot of the movie, minus some minor changes that probably come about from using an earlier draft of the screenplay as outline.
+Every chapter ends with an in-universe report that helps expands the universe.

Cons:
-The Hong Kong fight follows the view of the people in the Shatterdome/on the ground of Hong Kong, instead of the view of the pilots of the Jaegers. The only time we do it is when Striker Eureka is EMPed and Gypsy Danger is being carried into the atmosphere by Otachi. Truly a shame, considering one of the biggest criticism of the movie was that the pilots of Typhoon and Alpha didn't get enough screen time or character development and the same is true of the novelization, when this would be the best way to develop them by letting us read their thoughts.
-There are times where characters speak Japanese and transcribed in romaji, followed by the translation. Rule of thumb when writing foreign languages is to either write the translation and say they are speaking the language, or transcribe the language and let the reader figure out the meaning by the context and following sentences. However, don't transcribe and immediately follow it up with the translation.
-Continuity error early on. Raleigh mentions that Mark-V Jaegers weren't around when he was a Ranger, yet the novel mentions Gypsy and Eureka were deployed for the Manila kaiju attack. Eureka is a Mark-V. See the problem? FYI, the screenwriter for the movie mentioned the Jaeger Herc was piloting during the Manila deployment was Lucky Seven.

Ultimately, an okay novelization. It adds some context to things and expand on the universe. However, if you saw the film, it can be quite repetitive and some expanded information has been contradicted by higher sources of canon.


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Pacific Rim The Official Movie Novelization Alexander Irvine Books Reviews

The book stays pretty close to the film with some minor changes and more in-depth characterization (especially of Mako and Newt), so in that regard it's pretty solid. It was nice to get a little more backstory to some characters and even a name for the Category 5 kaiju.

Where it fails is the editing. Whomever was in charge of editing this novel did an abysmal job. Some sentences were missing whole words, there were numerous consistency issues in a single scene (the most prominent being when Mako is in her room reflecting over her red shoes; first she's holding one, then both, then one again without ever moving), and tense changes that should never have gotten through the cracks were glaringly obvious and severely detracted from my enjoyment of the book. I tried to overlook these flaws and just enjoy it, but as I read on I found I couldn't. A decent editor (hell, even a beta from the FanFiction.net forums) would have corrected those issues before the manuscript went to the press.

If not for the horribly lazy editing I would have rated this book 5 out of 5 for sheer entertainment value.
I loved the movie. However, there were a few moments in Pacific Rim that I felt stretched my credulity. Why didn't Rayleigh know about the sword? If Kaiju can survive nukes why would a Jaeger really be effective? How exactly do the Kaiju know to go after a jaeger's head, where the pilots area?

The book answers those questions. It seriously fills out the universe with so many awesome details. There are at least a dozen "ohhhh, ok!" moments throughout this excellent movie novelization. It really makes you appreciate Typhoon, Cherno and Striker for the badass jaegers they are, and understand why the battle of Hong Kong didn't go as planned for the PPDC (Otachi and Leatherback were a waaaaay bigger deal than the movie let on).

If you want to know more about the Pacific Rim universe, pick this up right now.
Only once before have I gotten the novelization of a film. And it was the last time I had such love for a movie I saw in the theater. That movie was Terminator 2. Saw it four times, bought the merchandise, read the interviews. But I wanted more. So I got the book.

Long before DVD extras and director cuts, the only way I knew of the deleted scenes was because of the novel. See they are written using the first shooting script. Scenes get trimmed, re-written, cut, or rearranged during filming or in post-production. By then the book form is already on the way to the printers.

That brings us to now, I have seen Pacific Rim three times already. I know Del Toro cut scenes, he said so. I couldn't get the novelization fast enough. It answered so much and more.

Thoughts the characters had, descriptions of scenes I wouldn't have noticed. In addition there are nuggets of information only for readers. Dossiers of characters, internal memos from PPDC, and a few other things you'll just have to read for yourself.

I can only hope the extra scenes will be on the DVD, but if not this book is what you need to get the whole story. At least until we get a sequel. This is just too big of a world to leave unexplored.
Like most novelizations, Pacific Rim The Official Movie Novelization follows the story of the movie very closely. For those who don't know the story of Pacific Rim, let me recap it real quick. Portal appeared in the ocean and giant monsters started coming through and wreaking s***. To combat these creatures humanity built giant robots to fight back.

Pros
+Stays close to the plot of the movie, minus some minor changes that probably come about from using an earlier draft of the screenplay as outline.
+Every chapter ends with an in-universe report that helps expands the universe.

Cons
-The Hong Kong fight follows the view of the people in the Shatterdome/on the ground of Hong Kong, instead of the view of the pilots of the Jaegers. The only time we do it is when Striker Eureka is EMPed and Gypsy Danger is being carried into the atmosphere by Otachi. Truly a shame, considering one of the biggest criticism of the movie was that the pilots of Typhoon and Alpha didn't get enough screen time or character development and the same is true of the novelization, when this would be the best way to develop them by letting us read their thoughts.
-There are times where characters speak Japanese and transcribed in romaji, followed by the translation. Rule of thumb when writing foreign languages is to either write the translation and say they are speaking the language, or transcribe the language and let the reader figure out the meaning by the context and following sentences. However, don't transcribe and immediately follow it up with the translation.
-Continuity error early on. Raleigh mentions that Mark-V Jaegers weren't around when he was a Ranger, yet the novel mentions Gypsy and Eureka were deployed for the Manila kaiju attack. Eureka is a Mark-V. See the problem? FYI, the screenwriter for the movie mentioned the Jaeger Herc was piloting during the Manila deployment was Lucky Seven.

Ultimately, an okay novelization. It adds some context to things and expand on the universe. However, if you saw the film, it can be quite repetitive and some expanded information has been contradicted by higher sources of canon.