Perhaps after his attempt to make “The Hobbit” was shut down by studio financial woes, director Guillermo del Toro was aching to kick out the jams. It’s been five years since his last moviemaking assignment, the fantastically bizarre “Hellboy II: The Golden Army,” which is probably why his latest, “Pacific Rim,” feels more like a visionary flexing atrophying muscles than a bold creative step forward in a most colorful career. Gone are the quirk, crunch, and magical dealings of del Toro’s past work, replaced here with a heaping helping of noise and scraping metal, which for 80 minutes would be an irresistible proposition. 100 minutes would be quite entertaining. Unfortunately, “Pacific Rim” runs 130 minutes, and its repetitive action and cornball dialogue eventually sands off the senses, lessening the matinee euphoria del Toro aims to conjure. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com