A Delightful Surprise

Rating: 8/10 (31 October 2014)

A box office bomb upon release (Due to dire marketing for Warner Bros who simply didn't know what they had) "The Iron Giant" is a great animated story, at 36 years old I sat and watched it on my own, when it was on TV and I was very entertained.
Plot In A Paragraph: A Robot from another planet is stranded on Earth somewhere in America, he befriends a nine year old boy, who helps keep him from the US government who are searching for him.
Straight off, I need to note the similarities with this and Steven Spielbergs "E.T" re read my 'Plot In A Paragraph' replace the word robot with Extra Terrestrial and you have the 'Plot In A Paragraph' for "E.T". It's not a bad thing, "E.T" is a classic and I love it, and is not exactly the same, but the ending did reduce me to tears like "E.T".
All the voice actors are good, stand outs are Eli Marienthal as Hogarth Hughes, Jennifer Aniston as Hogarths mother, Christopher McDonald is superb as U.S. Government agent Kent Mansley Harry Connick, Jr. as Dean McCoppin and Vin Diesel as the title character. They all strike the right note.
Another thing I loved was all the Superman references.
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