About this movie
- Genres:
- Animation & Cartoons, Family, Science Fiction
- Language:
- English
- Running time:
- 1:26:30
- Partner rating:
- Released:
- 1999
- Quality:
- 480 (DVD equivalent)
Cast & Crew
Cast
- Jennifer Aniston Annie Hughes
- Vin Diesel The Iron Giant
- Eli Marienthal Hogarth Hughes
- Harry Connick, Jr. Dean McCoppen
- Christopher McDonald Kent Mansley
- James Gammon Marve Loach
- Cloris Leachman Mrs. Tensedge
- John Mahoney Shannon Rogard
- M. Emmet Walsh Earl Stutz
- Mary Kay Bergman
- Ollie Johnston Train Engineer #1
- Frank Thomas Train Engineer #2
Directors
- Brad Bird
Producers
- Allison Abbate
- Des McAnuff
Watch your movie on...
-
Android Devices
Your YouTube movie will play on Android tablets loaded with Honeycomb, like the Motorola Xoom.
Learn more -
Google TV
Your YouTube movie will play on Google TV in the web browser.
Learn more
The Iron Giant
You have 30 days to begin watching. Once started, you have 24 hours of viewing time. By purchasing, you agree to these terms.
A boy's best friend is his robot in this animated adventure from Brad Bird, best known for his TV work on such series as The Simpsons, King of the Hill, and The Critic. Set in 1957, The Iron Giant focuses on Hogarth (voice of Eli Marienthal), an imaginative nine-year-old boy who daydreams of alien invasions and doing battle with Communist agents. One day, Hogarth hears a local fisherman talk about something that surpasses anything he could dream up: a fifty-foot robot that fell from the sky into a nearby lake. Needless to say, Hogarth's mom, Annie (voice of Jennifer Aniston) finds this a little hard to swallow, but when Hogarth finds the robot (voice of Vin Diesel) and fishes him out of the water, his pal Dean (voice of Harry Connick Jr.), a beatnik sculptor who also runs a junkyard, offers to help by hiding the robot with his salvage. A government agent named Kent Mansley (voice of Christopher McDonald) soon gets wind that there's a mechanical invader of unknown origins in the neighborhood and wants to wipe out the potential threat. However, the robot (which loves to eat metal and is learning to talk) turns out to be friendly, and the boy in turn tries to teach his new pal the ways of humans. The Iron Giant is loosely based on the book The Iron Man by late British poet Ted Hughes, previously adapted for the stage by rock musician Pete Townshend, who executive produced the film.
Reviews by Rotten Tomatoes
97%
percent positive reviews
-
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
A smart live-and-let-live parable, full of glancing, acute observations on all kinds of big subjects...that you can talk about with the kids for a long time to come.
– Full review
-
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
This is enjoyable in part because of its flavorsome period ambience and its lively and satiric characters.
– Full review
-
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
A cool, unique-looking animated feature (the Ike-era design elements make for great eye candy), director Brad Bird's tale of a small-town boy and his outer-space robot is hip and entertaining without pandering, or condescending, to the kiddie set.
-
Wally Hammond, Time Out
As entertaining as it's intelligent.
– Full review
-
Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail
One of those rare films that will hold the attention of children in the 6 to 12 age range without insulting the intelligence of the adults who accompany them.
– Full review
-
Joe Baltake, Sacramento Bee
This will probably be the world's shortest, four-star review and could be encapsulated in simply one monosyllable -- Go.
– Full review
-
Kim Newman, Empire Magazine
For a cartoon, it boasts a very sophisticated depiction of the 50s.
– Full review
-
Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times
A smooth, skilled example of animated filmmaking!
– Full review
-
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Enchanting!
– Full review
You might also like...
-
Short Circuit 2
1:50:36 1988Fisher Stevens reprises his role of Ben Jahrvi, the co-inventor of the cute robot Number Five, in this sequel to Short Circuit. Since the last film, Ben has moved to the city, where he lives in a truck and sells toy Number Fives as a street vendor. Ben plies his trade until one day luck strikes in the form of Sandy (Cynthia Gibb), a toy buyer in...
Cynthia Gibb, Fisher Stevens, Michael McKean
-
Tarzan
2:15:03 1999Author Edgar Rice Burroughs once suggested that animation would be the ideal medium to bring his Tarzan to the screen, and 81 years after the first film about the famous ape-man, Disney brings us the first full-length animated film starring the King of the Jungle. After a disaster at sea causes their ship to sink off the coast of Africa, a Briti...
Hemant Birje, Kimi Katkar, Dalip Tahil, Om Shivpuri, Narendranath
-
Giant
3:21:15 1956George Stevens' sprawling adaptation of Edna Ferber's best-selling novel successfully walks a fine line between potboiler and serious drama for its 210-minute running time, making it one of the few epics of its era that continues to hold up as engrossing entertainment across the decades. Giant opens circa 1922 in Maryland, where Texas rancher Jo...
Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Rock Hudson, Carroll Baker, Mercedes Mccambridge
-
Hunchback of Notre Dame
1:40:44 1923This second film version of the Victor Hugo novel Notre Dame de Paris (the first was a Theda Bara vehicle, The Dancer of Paris) was a super-duper-spectacular as only Hollywood of the 1920s could make them, but it is never so large that it dwarfs the contribution of its star, Lon Chaney. As the hunchbacked bellringer Quasimodo, Chaney adorned him...
Lon Chaney
-
Coraline
1:40:59 2009A young girl walks through a secret door and discovers a parallel reality that is eerily similar to the life she already knows, yet deeply unsettling in a number of ways, in director Henry Selick's animated adaptation of Neil Gaiman's international best-seller. Eleven-year-old Coraline Jones (voice of Dakota Fanning) is fearlessly courageous, an...
Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Keith David, Jo...
-
Peter Pan
1:53:21 2003Director P.J. Hogan (Muriel's Wedding, My Best Friend's Wedding) helms this live-action retelling of J.M. Barrie's classic children's play Peter Pan. Starring Jeremy Sumpter (Frailty) in the title role, the film follows the adventures of the Darling children, Wendy (Rachel Hurd-Wood), John (Harry Newell), and Michael (Freddie Popplewell), as the...
Jeremy Sumpter, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Jason Isaacs, Lynn Redgrave, Ludivine Sagni...
YouTube Movie Extras
-
3:13
The Iron Man Retold
A slight re-telling of the classic story of The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. Made on a 2-day workshop with 8 11-year olds as part of the WSCC pupil enrichment pro...
by rosewoodholmes -
4:42
THE IRON GIANT — ReThink Review
THE IRON GIANT is one of my favorite movies of all time, and is, in my mind, one of the best kids movies ever made. Set in 1957 in the fictional town of Rock...
by jsjkim -
2:36
Director Brad Bird answers a student question on ThinkTalk
Critically-acclaimed director Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille) talks to ThinkTalk about the difference in directing animated characters as opposed to...
by ThinkTalkNetworks -
7:55
My Iron Giant Toys.mp4
Requested by destinygundum, this shows off the toys in my Iron Giant collection. The Iron Giant is a hit 1999 animated Warners Brothers Film which takes plac...
by GNSquacker
