Better than Tarzan, by a wide margin

Rating: 8/10 (8 August 1999)

This is such a wonderful movie. The story is excellent and the animation is quite good. It lives by no formula, (ala Disney). No Broadway medleys, no comic sidekicks. Just good characters and good storytelling. Five minutes ago, I looked at the box office reports, for opening weekend, and I feel like weeping. Iron Giant was so much better than Tarzan, and worlds above Wild Wild West, and yet it has made less than five million for it's first three days. This is horrible. I pray that it makes a come back, for if it proves unprofitable, Brad Bird may not get another crack at it. You can blame WB's lack of promotion for it's failure at the box office, not Bird.