Iron Giant

Pros: Story that engages children and adults instead of merely pandering to either.
Cons: Very few. A few scenes that are possibly overdramatized.

One of the things you get asked a lot when you review a lot of movies (and one of the things that is just popular in conversation in general), is why they just don't seem to make any good movies. I used to try with this question. I just smirk...

Pros: hilarious, heartwarming, great orchestration of characters, good use of fifties iconography
Cons: preachy, familiar

One of the finest movies I have ever seen is a cartoon. Deal with it! The Iron Giant is everything a movie should be - animated or not. It's a throwback to the flying-saucer flicks of the fifties, but with nineties sensibilities. Its closest cousin ...

Pros: entertaining and educational; animation with a message
Cons: none at all

I've always been the strong one in my family and that came in handy when my first husband left home. While I enjoyed having my two sons to myself, a change came over me that I wasn't prepared for and wasn't sure how to handle. Almost 30 years later, I...

Pros: Ground-breaking plotline in a full-length animation feature.
Cons: Well, you have to have some sense of history to full appreciate it.

THE IRON GIANT is that rarity of rarities: a great animated movie for kids with some real intelligence in it instead of just syrupy sweet songs and platitudes and plotline (yawn).

The first real predecessor to The Iron Giant was...

Pros: Shows how paranoid people of the past were in the Cold War
Cons: Not appropriate for younger children

Last week at work we had a long conversation about the situation with the Cold War with nuclear and atomic bomb threats by the Soviet Union. My boss especially told us that they used to have bomb drills in school and how stupid now he realizes they were...

Pros: beautiful, great story, a must-see...
Cons: didn't find itself an audience

Rated PG

Directed by Brad Bird


My rating: A

When we imagine of cartoons, we see bright, flashy colors, humor, lavish songs written by Elton John, and plenty of movie tie-in products such as our favorite...

Pros: Nice message, not corny, wonderful animation style.
Cons: Not enough people supported it in the theaters.

As rival film studios fight out to share a piece of the Disney pie, we are now offered several new animated features a year. Most of these are weak retreads of old classics (Anastasia) or just plain awful (The Quest for Camelot). So when The Iron Giant...

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There are all sorts of alien movies, from E.T. to Star Wars and Star Trek. In some cases, they even visit Earth. This is the case with The Iron Giant. One night, a mysterious object crash lands in a small Maine town in the 1950s. A man goes into a ...

Pros: Will stand the test of time.
Cons: Can't think of any.

Iron Giant is a movie that adults can really enjoy watching with their kids (or someone else's kids for that matter). The story is entertaining and original and the animation is fantastic.

A young boy finds an alien giant who eats metal....

Pros: Message movie for all ages; Baby Boomers will enjoy the references to the 1950's.
Cons: Older animation technology (late1990's)

---DISCLOSURE: This is being written by someone who enjoys the movies and might consider it a hobby since I've been doing it for 50 years. I am now have a three at a time Netlfix membership. In the "old days" I averaged 30 movies a year when they were in ...

Pros: The animation, cast, voice acting, story, everything!
Cons: None that I can see.

The Iron Giant. Now this is what cartoons are supposed to be. When I first saw the box art and advertising for this movie, I thought it was simply another cheap Disney rip-off, or at the very least, a substandard, yet original, animated movie...

Pros: Animation, Storyline
Cons: Average DVD Features

Based on the glowing reviews of our local movie critic, I purchased the DVD version of the Iron Giant for my five year old son. It's got a robot in it - how could I go wrong? It was sure to entertain him.

What I didn't count on is the affect...

Pros: A wonderful family movie with heart, humor and intelligence
Cons: Not for small children

I avoided The Iron Giant last summer for the same reasons most other moviegoers did, I think. I was wary of any non-Disney animated product that operated along hokey plotlines involving a kid, a 50-foot robot and an evil government agent. The...

Pros: Excellent movie. A real emotion and attention grabber. Great voice matches.
Cons: NONE!!!!

I just couldn't resist writing a review for this movie. It's one that just shouldn't be missed. Somehow I missed it in theaters or even missed the existence of it when it came out in theaters in 1999. I stumbled across it when I borrowed it from my local ...

Pros: Warner Brothers Animation.
Cons: There's no sequel yet.

Iron Giant is an iron classic. It isn't really old enough to be a classic yet, but it will be. I guess that there wasn't enough budget to give this animated feature length movie the opportunity that it deserved, but I believe that it will catch on,...