Iron Giant

Pros: Story that engages children and adults instead of merely pandering to either.

Cons: Very few. A few scenes that are possibly overdramatized.

The Bottom Line: Recent animated movies sucked you in, but they were nowhere near as good this one that no one could get dragged to.

Review:
One of the things you get asked a lot when you review a lot of movies (and one of the things that is just popular in conversation in general), is why they just don't seem to make any good movies. I used to try with this question. I just smirk...

Pros: hilarious, heartwarming, great orchestration of characters, good use of fifties iconography

Cons: preachy, familiar

The Bottom Line: They don't come any better than this.

Review: One of the finest movies I have ever seen is a cartoon. Deal with it! The Iron Giant is everything a movie should be - animated or not. It's a throwback to the flying-saucer flicks of the fifties, but with nineties sensibilities. Its closest cousin ...

Pros: entertaining and educational; animation with a message

Cons: none at all

The Bottom Line: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for quality, content, emotion and the ability to make you think.

Review: I've always been the strong one in my family and that came in handy when my first husband left home. While I enjoyed having my two sons to myself, a change came over me that I wasn't prepared for and wasn't sure how to handle. Almost 30 years later, I...

Pros: Ground-breaking plotline in a full-length animation feature.

Cons: Well, you have to have some sense of history to full appreciate it.

The Bottom Line: Go see it and get pumped.

Review: THE IRON GIANT is that rarity of rarities: a great animated movie for kids with some real intelligence in it instead of just syrupy sweet songs and platitudes and plotline (yawn).

The first real predecessor to The Iron Giant was...

Pros: beautiful, great story, a must-see...

Cons: didn't find itself an audience

The Bottom Line: The Iron Giant is simply spectacular. Go see it...

Review: Rated PG

Directed by Brad Bird


My rating: A

When we imagine of cartoons, we see bright, flashy colors, humor, lavish songs written by Elton John, and plenty of movie tie-in products such as our favorite...

Pros: Nice message, not corny, wonderful animation style.

Cons: Not enough people supported it in the theaters.

Review: As rival film studios fight out to share a piece of the Disney pie, we are now offered several new animated features a year. Most of these are weak retreads of old classics (Anastasia) or just plain awful (The Quest for Camelot). So when The Iron Giant...

Pros: great story, and morals

Cons: a few swear words

The Bottom Line: For a Warner Brother's movie this was fantastic. I disagree with the swearing but other than that it is a great movie.

Review: The Iron Giant is probably one of the best non-Disney movies I've seen. Warner Brothers really hit a great one with this movie. The overall movie was great to an extent.

What I liked
I liked the fact that the boy, Hogarth, finds...

Pros: Will stand the test of time.

Cons: Can't think of any.

Review: Iron Giant is a movie that adults can really enjoy watching with their kids (or someone else's kids for that matter). The story is entertaining and original and the animation is fantastic.

A young boy finds an alien giant who eats metal....

Pros: The animation, cast, voice acting, story, everything!

Cons: None that I can see.

The Bottom Line: Probably the overall best animated movie I've ever seen. Get it NOW!

Review: The Iron Giant. Now this is what cartoons are supposed to be. When I first saw the box art and advertising for this movie, I thought it was simply another cheap Disney rip-off, or at the very least, a substandard, yet original, animated movie...

Pros: Animation, Storyline

Cons: Average DVD Features

Review: Based on the glowing reviews of our local movie critic, I purchased the DVD version of the Iron Giant for my five year old son. It's got a robot in it - how could I go wrong? It was sure to entertain him.

What I didn't count on is the affect...