Jennifer Aniston, Christopher McDonald, Harry Connick Jr.
"Iron Giant" is based upon the 1968 story,'Iron Man,' by the British poet laureate Ted Hughes. The film is about a giant metal machine that drops from the sky and frightens a small town in Maine in 19...( read more
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DVD Release Date: November 23, 1999
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October 2, 2009Possibly the last great children's 2D animation made. This film is fantastic! It?s not weighed down with the usual clichés found in kids films, there's no unnecessary action scenes and even though its message is strong, it?s never preachy. The book by Ted Hughes is probably my fa...( read more)
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January 12, 2009An enchanting animated feature about a boy who makes friends with a robot from outer space. The giant crash-lands on a 1957 night when America is peering up at the speck of Sputnik in the sky, and munches his way through a Maine village, eating TV antennas and cars, until he find...( read more)
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December 31, 2008"Welcome to downtown Coolsville! Population.. Us."
This exquisite animated film is based on Ted Hughes book, "The Iron Man". The basic plot is almost the same, without the outer space encounter.
The iron giant arrives to a small town, in the 50's. There he meets a young boy, wh...( read more) -
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October 30, 2009Really enjoyable film, which mixes CGI and traditional cartoon production. My kids love this too but there is always plenty of upset and indignation towards the army when they start on the Giant. Bad men, bad bad men.
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September 30, 2009Unoriginal, cliched, predictable and dull. No wonder it didn't make that much money and no one even knew it about. The animation was great, though.
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September 18, 2009Terrific animated film. Brad Bird first masterpiece before directing The Incredibles.
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January 11, 2007
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
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December 23, 2007the funniest part is "i'll be back tommarow" when the Giant keeps on following him
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February 3, 2007WOuld have been nice if a competent director and writer would have picked up the idea for a good sequal... oh well, not many sequals respect the story told before it, so maybe it was for the best *sigh*
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December 26, 2006i liked it because: 1. it was a good movie. 2. it had two of my fave actors in it, Vin Diesel and Jennifer Aniston
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November 8, 2006It was not....it was a classic a very well made good movie of the year 1999
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