Spectacular!!

Rating: 10/10 (21 May 2001)

Fantastic family film about an Iron Giant robot that falls from the skies in the late 50's. A young kid named Hogarth finds a 50 foot tall steel eating 'Iron Giant', after discovering it trapped in a power plant station. After saving the giants life, the two bond and Hogarth has to figure out how to keep the whole thing a secret, as a nosy government agent arrives in town convinced there's an enemy 'something' created either by the Russians or martians that must be destroyed.
This is the perfect animated film, the giant looks great and has a neat personality and a cool sounding voice (like synthesized grinding metal). There's also enough humour to keep things a little on the lighter side. But the movie shines spectacularly in its portrayl of a 'friendly giant' and a kid who tries to convince the world that he's harmless. This is a total setup for a very sappy, preachy, and didactic story line, but the film is not like that at all. It comes out with the ingenious of an aesop fable handled with great simplicity and without being a paint by numbers moral lesson. Great for kids and even better for adults.
Rating 10 out of 10.