Pacific Rim's "How to Drive a Jaeger" Short Featurette

A new trailer for 2013's Hollywood tokusatsu film “PACIFIC RIM” explains how Jaegers work and why it needed to have two pilots. The film itself is Guillermo Del Torro's homage to the Japanese monsters, or kaiju films.


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.

Pacific Rim premieres July 12th.