Top flight family entertainment. Adults will also love it.

Rating: Null/10 (17 October 1999)

As a kid I enjoyed the Marvel comics scifi stories of the late 50's and early 60's. Of these, undoubtedly the best was "I Fought the Colossus." I always fantasized that I'd see it on screen and that if I had a billion dollars, I'd produce that story as a movie. THe "Iron Giant", while not quite the same, comes close to fulfilling that. The Iron Giant, while perhaps not top flight in the animation aspects, is a first rate story with a timeless theme and a great morality play. It provides a sense of realism in character depictions that has rarely been equalled in animated films. Its only weakness, surely forgivable, is that it sometimes uses a sledgehammer to hammer home its message. This will rank as one of the top animated films in history. One anachronism for the eagle eyed: a 1959 Cadillac in 1957!