Who Pooped the Bed or How I Sat Through Pacific Rim

Guillermo Del Toro's latest offering.

Trailer below:


The trailer gives the setup fairly well. Giant monsters referred to as Kaiju are coming through a hole in the Pacific Ocean referred to as the Breach. The governments of the world work together to build a program to fight the Kaiju. The fighting is done in Yaegers (giant robots). Each Yaeger is piloted by two people, because the load of interfacing with the robot is too much for one person's brain to handle alone. When two people pilot a Yaeger they are connected through an interface called the Drift, which allows each pilot to be totally aware of everything in the other's mind.

First Post: Yatta! Yatterman

Enough celebration. Lets get right down to it. Today's selection: Yatterman.

I've been on a bit of a Takashi Miike kick lately. If you don't know who he is, you should.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0586281/bio

Here is a trailer to kick things off:

Way outside anything we see here in the US, right? So what is it about?

First I want to say something about the title. Now I could be wrong here, but I think the name Yatterman has a root in the Japanese exclamation, "Yatta!" In the US when the hero saves the day we throw a fist in the air and shout, "Yes!" Yatta is pretty much the Japanese version of that (I'm being simple in my explanation here).