It's so great because it doesn't use the "Disney Formula"

Rating: 9/10 (7 August 1999)

I wasn't sure I was going to like the Giant. It could have just been big and said "friend" a lot, like E.T., then sell a bunch of Giant dolls at Burger King. But there's a point in the movie where you feel compassion for a robot. An animated robot.
It's not drawn in the Disney style, it's not preachy in the Disney style, and NO SONGS in the Disney style. It's just a great story put together in a near-perfect manner.
The only reason I didn't give it a perfect score was because there is a question that you have throughout most of the movie that never gets answered.