Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD EAN: 9780790743875 Format: Anamorphic, Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0790743876 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: November 23, 1999 Running Time: 87 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1999 Sales Rank: 19828
Description: Something humongous is among us! A young boy rescues a huge robot which has rocketed to earth from space - and tries to protect the genial giant from a nosey government agent and the military. A captivating animated feature that's part metal, part magic and all heart.
DVD Features: DVD ROM Features Documentary Music Video Theatrical Trailer
Amazon.com essential video: This gentle reworking of Ted Hughes's 1968 novella was the unseen gem of 1999. Hogarth, a young boy who lives in the Maine woods during the cold war, befriends a giant robot. As with E.T., the iron giant is a misunderstood outsider who becomes a child's best friend, and Hogarth does his best to hide the massive figure from his mom (voiced by Jennifer Aniston) and the local scrap-yard beatnik (Harry Connick Jr.). Soon the suspicions of neighbors and a government agent (Christopher McDonald) spell trouble.
With no songs, no sidekicks, and no cheap ending, The Iron Giant is a refreshing change-- like an off-Broadway production compared to the glitz of Disney's annual animated extravaganzas. Director Brad Bird may have Family Dog and The Simpsons to his credit, but this film doesn't have that brand of scatological humor. As with the best family entertainments, there are gags that adults will howl at while the kids are watching something else (see Bird's interpretation of cold war propaganda). And the star is one cool piece of animated magic. Voiced by Vin Diesel (Saving Private Ryan's hulking Private Caparzo) and filled with more gadgets than a Swiss army knife, the giant is a grand thing to behold. And like another famous cinema tin man, our hero--and the movie--has heart. Superb entertainment for ages 5 and up. --Doug Thomas
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Acceptable animated fare but little more
Perhaps in part due to the fact that the film bombed at the box office, The Iron Giant has developed quite a cult around it in recent years. Some of the enthusiasm is justified--the animation is quite ... Read More
Rating: - An incredible film--animated or otherwise...
This is an incredible film--animated or otherwise. The story is flawless, the emotions powerful and honest. It is no accident that as of this writing, the film averages 5 stars after 450 (now 451) reviews. ... Read More
Rating: - This was so ignored in theatres...
I fell in love with this precocious little boy and his iron alien friend the first time my family saw it in theatres. So of course I had to have the special edition DVD, bought cheaply because, for some odd reason, ... Read More
Rating: - Awesome Movie
Buy this and you will be pleased. To think it is unknown by so many. A great movie. The whole family can watch.
Rating: - Holds up.
I saw this movie a few years ago and forgot about it. I saw that Amazon had it for a great price so I ordered it for my nephew and he loves it. He is going to be 8 years old and my sister called me the other day ... Read More
- Acceptable animated fare but little more