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The Iron Giant: Directed by Brad Bird. With Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr., Vin Diesel, James Gammon. A young boy befriends a giant robot from outer space that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy.
- Brad Bird
- 3 min
Setting the story in the 1950s puts the government's reaction to the robot in the context of the Red Scare and Sputnik. The Iron Giant may not have the breathtaking vistas of some of the best Disney animated films, but it's lively and heartwarming, and the characters, both human and robot, are so engaging that you might forget they aren't real.
- Warner Bros.
- Brad Bird
Aug 6, 1999 · Imagine "E.T." as a towering metal man, and you have some of the appeal of "The Iron Giant," an enchanting animated feature about a boy who makes friends with a robot from outer space. The giant crash-lands on a 1957 night when America is peering up at the speck of Sputnik in the sky, and munches his way through a Maine village, eating TV antennas and cars, until he finds a power plant. That's ...
In this animated adaptation of Ted Hughes' Cold War fable, a giant alien robot (Vin Diesel) crash-lands near the small town of Rockwell, Maine, in 1957. Exploring the area, a local 9-year-old boy ...
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- Brad Bird
- PG
- Warner Brothers
Hogarth sprints into a tree branch and quickly wakes up with a nosebleed from the impact. Mansley grabs a Hogarth by the face and threatens him, and then swiftly knocks him out by putting a handkerchief laced with chloroform to the boy's face. Two boys almost fall off a roof; a boy gets knocked unconscious.
The Iron Giant is a 1999 American animated science fiction film produced by Warner Bros. Feature Animation and directed by Brad Bird in his directorial debut.It is based on the 1968 novel The Iron Man by Ted Hughes (which was published in the United States as The Iron Giant), and was written by Tim McCanlies from a story treatment by Bird.
The film has impish humor, great adventure and more than a few thrills. Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 12, 2014. Wisely, Bird and company eschew the standard Disney formula of catchy ...
