The Iron Giant (1999)
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor/2.35:1 86m
Director: Brad Bird
Cast: Voicecast: Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr., Vin Diesel, Eli Marienthal
Synopsis:
On the coast of Maine, a young boy discovers a metal-eating giant from outer space, and tries to protect it from adults while he teaches it language and the value of life.
Review:
Fairly indifferently animated but attractively drawn adaptation of Ted Hughes's children's classic. The Americanization partly pays off by combining the story with the nuclear paranoia of the 1950s, and there is even a beatnik scrap metal dealer of James Dean appeal to woo the boy's pretty single mom. The Hughesian device of having the iron man's metal parts scurrying to reconstitute themselves is effectively repeated at the film's conclusion.
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor/2.35:1 86m
Director: Brad Bird
Cast: Voicecast: Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr., Vin Diesel, Eli Marienthal
Synopsis:
On the coast of Maine, a young boy discovers a metal-eating giant from outer space, and tries to protect it from adults while he teaches it language and the value of life.
Review:
Fairly indifferently animated but attractively drawn adaptation of Ted Hughes's children's classic. The Americanization partly pays off by combining the story with the nuclear paranoia of the 1950s, and there is even a beatnik scrap metal dealer of James Dean appeal to woo the boy's pretty single mom. The Hughesian device of having the iron man's metal parts scurrying to reconstitute themselves is effectively repeated at the film's conclusion.
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor/2.35:1 86m
Director: Brad Bird
Cast: Voicecast: Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr., Vin Diesel, Eli Marienthal
Synopsis:
On the coast of Maine, a young boy discovers a metal-eating giant from outer space, and tries to protect it from adults while he teaches it language and the value of life.
Review:
Fairly indifferently animated but attractively drawn adaptation of Ted Hughes's children's classic. The Americanization partly pays off by combining the story with the nuclear paranoia of the 1950s, and there is even a beatnik scrap metal dealer of James Dean appeal to woo the boy's pretty single mom. The Hughesian device of having the iron man's metal parts scurrying to reconstitute themselves is effectively repeated at the film's conclusion.