Run, don't walk to see it!

Rating: 10/10 (15 August 1999)

The Iron Giant is without a doubt the best, most intelligent animated feature from America since Fantasia. The single best endorsement I can think of is that when I drug a friend to see it at a matinee showing last week, there a bunch of kids in the theatre directly behind us. Not only did my friend ( a 37 year old pharmacist), really enjoy it, the kids really loved it too. The story isn't "dumbed down" in any way, it doesn't insult an adult's ( or a kid's either) intelligence by resorting to cutesy comic sidekicks i.e. Jar Jar Binks, Terk, or Scrappy Doo. The Iron Giant is just flat-out a good movie that happens to be animated.