
This is the story of a nine-year-old boy named Hogarth Hughes who makes friends with an innocent alien giant robot that came from outer space. Meanwhile, a paranoid U.S. Government agent named Kent Mansley arrives in town, determined to destroy the giant at all costs. It's up to Hogarth to protect him by keeping him at Dean McCoppin's place in the junkyard.... (Full plot summary below)
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This is the story of a nine-year-old boy named Hogarth Hughes who makes friends with an innocent alien giant robot that came from outer space. Meanwhile, a paranoid U.S. Government agent named Kent Mansley arrives in town, determined to destroy the giant at all costs. It's up to Hogarth to protect him by keeping him at Dean McCoppin's place in the junkyard.
Leave your thoughts about The Iron Giant.
| New York Daily NewsJack MathewsIt's an antidote to complacency. The question is, whom is it trying to wake up? |
| L.A. WeeklyF. X. FeeneyOne of the best films of the year thus far. |
| San Francisco ChroniclePeter StackHeart and tenderness are rare in cartoon movies. But in an age of frenetic children's fare, the new animated adventure The Iron Giant dares to show a lot of both, and it comes up a winner. |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonIn every way, one of the highlights of both animation and family-friendly cinema in the last quarter-century. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawHas never failed to bring a tear to my secretly-patriotic eye. |
| Norman TranscriptJim ChastainThe Iron Giant has that inexplicable movie magic which grabs us from time to time and simply will not let go. |
| San Diego Union-TribuneDavid ElliottWears its heavy debt to '50s space invader movies lightly, knowingly, entertainingly. |
| eFilmCritic.comScott WeinbergOf course it flopped at the box office! It's a fantastic movie! |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaA superbly entertaining film for the entire family, but what makes it transcendent is how deeply it is able to touch its audience. |
| Cinema em CenaPablo VillaçaCombinando elementos de E.T., King Kong e das ficções B dos anos 50, este filme ganha vida própria graças ao charme de sua animação e à sensibilidade da trama. |