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The Iron Giant (1999)

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97

Average Rating: 8/10
Reviews Counted: 114
Fresh: 111 | Rotten: 3

Engaging, endearing, affecting and charmingly retro, The Iron Giant tackles touchy subjects and complex relationships with a steady hand and beautiful animation direction from Brad Bird.

97

Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 1

Engaging, endearing, affecting and charmingly retro, The Iron Giant tackles touchy subjects and complex relationships with a steady hand and beautiful animation direction from Brad Bird.

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Average Rating: 3.3/5
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A boy's best friend is his robot in this animated adventure from Brad Bird, best known for his TV work on such series as The Simpsons, King of the Hill, and The Critic. Set in 1957, The Iron Giant focuses on Hogarth (voice of Eli Marienthal), an imaginative nine-year-old boy who daydreams of alien invasions and doing battle with Communist agents. One day, Hogarth hears a local fisherman talk about something that surpasses anything he could dream up: a fifty-foot robot that fell from the sky into

Nov 23, 1999

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A smart live-and-let-live parable, full of glancing, acute observations on all kinds of big subjects...that you can talk about with the kids for a long time to come.

August 31, 2008 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | Comments (2)
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This is enjoyable in part because of its flavorsome period ambience and its lively and satiric characters.

March 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comments (2)
Chicago Reader
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A cool, unique-looking animated feature (the Ike-era design elements make for great eye candy), director Brad Bird's tale of a small-town boy and his outer-space robot is hip and entertaining without pandering, or condescending, to the kiddie set.

January 11, 2007 | Comment (1)
Philadelphia Inquirer
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As entertaining as it's intelligent.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
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One of those rare films that will hold the attention of children in the 6 to 12 age range without insulting the intelligence of the adults who accompany them.

March 22, 2002 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment (1)
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The Iron Giant is a solid, not to say ironclad, winner in the less than overcrowded family animation arena.

January 1, 2000
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a cool, charming uniquely American fable done in accessible yet intelligent mode, which makes it suitable for all members of the family.

August 5, 2011 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com
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The Iron Giant isn't a Cold War allegory so much as an Americana fairy tale.

December 20, 2010 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine

Touching robot-kid friendship tale with great messages.

May 25, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment (1)
Common Sense Media

Great animation, and a great title character will appeal to the kids, while the sharp wit, whacky antics, and kid-friendly messages will appeal to the adults.

April 29, 2009
Cinema Crazed

Gentle, poignant and affecting animation that succeeds through understatement and showcases some highly impressive visual sequences.

March 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4
Film4

Outstanding.

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid
Combustible Celluloid

Un film qui présenta Brad Bird comme l'un des cinéastes de films d'animation pour enfants les plus talentueux et prometteurs des dernières années.

March 28, 2006 Full Review Source: Panorama

GO SEE THIS FILM, NOW.

December 6, 2005 Full Review Source: Film Threat
Film Threat

Truly for kids of all ages.

April 9, 2005 Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews
Reeling Reviews

Has never failed to bring a tear to my secretly-patriotic eye.

March 7, 2005 Full Review Source: Film Freak Central
Film Freak Central

It's the most solidly built, funny, and entertaining movie for kids of all ages that I've seen in a decade.

January 15, 2005
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Audience Reviews for The Iron Giant

The Iron Giant tackles touchy subjects and complex relationships with a steady hand and beautiful animation direction from Brad Bird. Smart angle of 80's setting
October 27, 2011
The year 1999 produced an astounding of riches for feature-film animation. While that year's highest grossing animated flick "Toy Story 2" carried on the wizardry and rich storytelling of the original,while "South Park:Bigger,Longer,and Uncut" brought the taboo-busting hypocrisy-bashing hilarity of the TV show to the big screen. But the best animated film of the year came from the studios of Warner Brothers. "The Iron Giant" is also the most underrated feature of the 1990's. The feature-film debut of future Pixar fixture Brad Bird(Ratatouille, The Incredibles)has future action star Vin Diesel as the voice of a giant alien robot that lands on Earth and gets befriended by a lonely boy. Notoriously,Warner Brothers dumped this adaption of Ted Hughes' "The Iron Man" into theatres with little push,but a cult following emerged once the smart,stylish,and endlessly entertaining old-school family film found it's audience.
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    1. Hogarth Hughes: You are who you choose to be.
    2. The Iron Giant: Superman...
    – Submitted by David F (6 months ago)
    1. Hogarth Hughes: You go, I stay. No following!
    – Submitted by Robbie N (7 months ago)
    1. Kent Mansley: You want evidence? I'll show you evidence!
    2. Shannon Rogard: ...thats nice Kent [hangs up phone].
    3. Kent Mansley: ...and when I do, I'm gonna want a MEMO distributed; and I'm gonna want that memo CARBON-COPIED!!
    – Submitted by Jason L (8 months ago)
    1. Kent Mansley: Here you go kid [places hat on Hogarth]....pretend your a gangster!!
    – Submitted by Jason L (8 months ago)
    1. Kent Mansley: Kent Mansley....I work for the government.
    – Submitted by Jason L (8 months ago)
    1. The Iron Giant: Souls don't die.
    – Submitted by Vinnie F (8 months ago)

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