Not recommended
The original
Pacific Rim was writer/director Guillermo del Toro's loving homage to the giant robot movies/tv shows from Japan that so many of us loved as kids.
He put a lot of effort into making the jaeger tech look reasonable, emphasizing the size and heft of the giant robots and wear and tear of a long drawn out war. Excellent casting, a very decent story with character development and top notch graphics -- it was a fun movie for fanboys and others.
The sequel has . . . none of those things.
Glaring, gaping plot holes and contradictions with the original. Paper thin, boilerplate characters and paint-by-the-numbers storyline. The jaegers are reduced to a mash up of Transformers and Power Rangers. I tried hard to find one thing to like about this film and can't.
Don't waste your time on this stinker.