Guillermo Del Toro premiered a new full-length trailer for Pacific Rim at WonderCon recently, and now it’s available online, where you can watch it without delousing your neckbeard afterwards. If you’ve been living under a rock, or an active social life, this one’s set in a world where a race of Godzillas emerges from the bottom of the sea, and humans build giant robots to fight them. So basically, Godzilla vs. Robot Jox, aka the best idea ever. It’s the perfect escapist vehicle that asks, “What if we could solve our problems with a giant robot that punched them in the face?”

The new trailer features a lengthy expository sequence courtesy of, believe it or not, It’s Always Sunny‘s Charlie Day, and a shot of a giant robot framed behind a fluttering American flag that would make Michael Bay weep onto the head of the Ukranian supermodel blowing him. Have you ever wanted to see a giant robot hit Godzilla with a battleship swung like a baseball bat? Now’s your chance.

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I’ve mostly been bored with Guillermo Del Toro’s post-Pan’s Labyrinth output, and the guy makes like 12 movies a year so it can be hard to keep up (he has EIGHTEEN in development credits on IMDB)… BUT, having seen this latest trailer for Pacific Rim… well, I’m listening. I’d sort of tuned out all the viral marketing crap for it (because viral marketing always feels like two ad guys jerking each other off), but things might have been different if they’d simply told me it was about ROBOT JOX FIGHTING GODZILLA. (Man, who knew Robot Jox would go on to become so influential, huh?) It’s hard to impress people with scale anymore, now that we’ve all seen the Eiffel Tower get destroyed in six trillion Roland Emmerich trailers, but I must say, I was impressed by the scale of this one. Or maybe it was the robots fighting sea monsters that did it. You know what? I might be overthinking this. Opens July 12.

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