Catch it before it leaves the theater!

Rating: 10/10 (22 August 1999)

The Iron Giant has some of the best animation and one of the most adult stories I've seen from a U.S. firm in some time. Much of the animation was so smooth it must have been done on a computer - but it wasn't intrusive; it just made the story flow better visually.
The sole complaint I had was that there were kids in the theater whose parents had never taught how to behave in public. It was bad enough that the kids talked but even more inconsiderate that their parents were holding conversations with them!
So, aside from the danger of young kids in the audience, the Iron Giant is about as good a show as you're likely to see this year. And please see it in a theather - you'll lose a lot of the visual scope of the film if you wait for it on video.