There’s more than just giant robots and massive monsters in the sci-fi action-adventure ‘Pacific Rim’: Director Guillermo del Toro has also infused it with human drama and character stories.

Del Toro tells USA Today’s Brian Truitt what’s in store for monster-movie fans, beginning with the setting:The film starts about 15 years after the gigantic Kaiju first emerged from the Pacific Ocean and mankind built robotic Jaegers to battle them. We’re not doing all that well, either, del Toro says. “They are evolving, they are becoming bigger, stronger and smarter, and it’s a very tough war.”

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Pacific Rim will be released on July 12.