Interesting and entertaining animated film.

Rating: Null/10 (5 May 2002)

Just a quick comment to let you all know how much I liked 'The Iron Giant'. This is an awesomely non-computer generated and more traditional animated film from those folks at Warner Bros. It is set in the 1950s during the cold war, and it has great characters like Hogart Hughes (voiced by Eli Marienthal), and the robot Iron Giant itself (Vin Diesel). The best character was for me was the villain in Kent Mansley (voiced by Christopher McDonald) who was a typical stereotype of that era. Jennifer Aniston, John Mahoney and Harry Connick Jnr also provide the voices for the supporting characters. 'The Iron Giant' is a very enjoyable film with a great overall message with reasonably deep subtext if you think about it for awhile. All in all, animated films usually work for me in general, even though I'm an adult. I'd recommend 'The Iron Giant' for kids for the characters and story, and for adults for the overall message within it.
**** out of *****!