Kanye West takes to Twitter to praise Pacific Rim

If Kanye says it, it seems, it must be true.

The notoriously egotistical rap star has used his immensely influential Twitter account (over 9 million followers) to break the Warner Bros. embargo on reviews of the new Guillermo del Toro movie, 'Pacific Rim.'

Tweeting on Thursday night the partner of Kim Kardashian took a break from his new role as father to express his views on the robot vs monster flick. His verdict?  “It’s easily one of my favorite movies of all time.”

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He went on to dismiss all the rumours that del Toro's merely following Michael Bay in the huge-robots-saving-the-world movie stakes, saying “This is not another ‘Robot’ movie, Guillermo del Toro is a master.”

In reply, del Toro regular, Ron Perlman, replied in character (as the film's dealer in black-market Kaiju organs) “Need Kaiju parts, u get the fam discount!”

Another of the film's stars, Rinko Kikuchi also retweeted West's comment.

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Other responses to the maverick hip hop artist's outburst were varied and hilarious, with script writer @DayanBallweg commenting “If Kanye West saves Pacific Rim? I… just don’t… know where to go with that.”

Meanwhile Robert Kazinsky who stars in the film has said in a video interview, “No big deal, it’s just Kanye… Questionable decisions in most of his life, but in this case, I think I’ll go with he’s got excellent taste when it comes to films.”

Kanye's praise has been retweeted over 7,000 times and seems to be doing Warner's job of building anticipation for a film that many were worried could be del Toro's first turkey.

The $180 million movie starring starring Charlie Hunman and Idris Elba opens July 12th.