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The Iron Giant
In a story that looks like a real adventure. The story tells of a nine-year-old boy named Hogarth Hughes making a giant metal machine that looks like a robot. Despite the boy's ambition, the army is not satisfied with a robot in the city.
5 June 1961, Los Angeles, California, USA
20 November 1951, Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA
15 February 1955, New York City, New York, USA
20 April 1940, Newman, Illinois, USA
14 November 1952, Pratt, Kansas, USA
24 October 1955, Los Angeles, California, USA
31 October 1912, Palo Alto, California, USA
8 March 1964, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2 May 1959, Los Angeles, California, USA
22 March 1935, Ogdensburg, New York, USA
August 12, 2014
A magical evocation of a special time in history and a time in everybody's life when the dream and the nightmare quotients are equally high.
August 04, 2013
It is in the best tradition of animation: an ideal tale for children that offers a lot to adults as well.
August 04, 2013
The Iron Giant is not only the best animated feature to be released this summer, it's the single best film to hit our screens so far this year.
August 12, 2014
Wisely, Bird and company eschew the standard Disney formula of catchy show tunes and cuddly animal sidekicks and lead Warner Bros. toward an animation style the studio can call its own.
May 04, 2015
In every way, one of the highlights of both animation and family-friendly cinema in the last quarter-century.
February 11, 2016
Watching this again 17 years after its original release, I savoured again the resemblances to Spielberg, Wilde and Brian Forbes's Whistle Down the Wind.
August 12, 2014
This is not exactly standard children's fare, but kids (and their parents) should be smitten by its wit and wisdom.
August 12, 2014
This is sharp, sophisticated stuff, appreciated on different levels by both parents and children, and even those who are neither. The film has impish humor, great adventure and more than a few thrills.
August 12, 2014
The Iron Giant's theme of fear of the unknown is craftily balanced against the power of innocent imagination.
August 04, 2013
Brad Bird fills the CinemaScope screen with wit and beauty in this modern fairy tale.
August 12, 2014
While youngsters will enjoy the film on one level, it reaches out to adults on a completely different plane. They will see an allegory about power and politics and the danger of allowing either to run roughshod over humanity.
February 11, 2016
Tender, moving and exciting for kids (and their secretly tearful parents).

