100th Review!! The Iron Giant

The Iron Giant


Release Date: 6th April 2000 - Australia


Production Companies
Warner Bros. Pictures (presents)
Warner Bros. Feature Animation

Distribution
Roadshow Films


Genre: Animation/Family/

Sci-Fi

Rating: PG

Runtime: 86 minutes


Budget: $48,000,000

Box Office Gross: $31,334,034 (Worldwide)


Plot Summary
Coming out of the horizon is a giant robot that has fallen out of the sky and crashed into Earth's orbit, where a young boy named Hogarth Hughes has found it. Now that Hogarth has gained a new large friend, he has to keep his presence a secret from everyone else, especially when an agent from the government is sent to find its whereabouts and may order the U.S. military to strike

down the metallic creature.

Voice Cast
Eli Marienthal - Hogarth Hughes
Jennifer Aniston - Annie Hughes
Harry Connick Jr. - Dean McCoppin
Vin Diesel - The Iron Giant
Christopher McDonald - Kent Mansley
John Mahoney - General Rogard
M. Emmet Walsh - Earl Stutz
James Gammon - Foreman Marv Loach/

Floyd Turbeaux
Cloris Leachman - Mrs. Tensedge

Frank Thomas - Additional Voices (Cameo)

Ollie Johnston - Additional Voices (Cameo)

Crew
Screen Story/Animator (Uncredited)/

Screenplay/Director - Brad Bird

Based on the Book "The Iron Man"/

Consultant - Ted Hughes
Screenplay - Tim McCaniles and

Brent Forrester (Uncredited)
Creator: The Spirit - Will Eisner
Creators: Superman - Jerry Siegel

and Joe Shuster

Associate Producer - John Walker
Executive Producer - Pete Townshend
Producers - Allison Abbate and Des McAnuff

Production Designer/Designer: Iron Giant -

Mark Whiting
Character Designer/Head of Animation/

Supervising Animator/Visual Development

Artist - Tony Fucile

Character Designer/Additional Story/

Visual Development Artist - Teddy Newton
Designer: Iron Giant/Supervising Animator/
Storyboard Artist - Steve Markowski

Designers: Iron Giant - Hiroki Itokazi

and Joe Johnston

Art Director - Alan Bodner
Artistic Coordinator - Scott F. Johnston

Story Department Head - Jeffrey Lynch

Storyboard Artist/Supervising Animator -

Dean Wellins

Storyboard Artists - Viki Anderson,

Kevin O'Brien, Piet Kroon and Fergal Reilly

Storyboard Artist/Workbook Designer -

Mark Andrews

Layout/Workbook Department Head -

William H. Frake

Scene Planning Department Head - Steven Wilzbach

Background Department Head -

Dennis Venizelos

Supervising Animator: "Hogarth" -

Richard Bazley

Supervising Animators - Stephan Franck,

Greg Manwaring, Mike Nguyen,

Wendy Perdue and Chris Suave

Editor - Darren T. Holmes
Supervising Sound Editor (Uncredited)/
Sound Designer - Randy Thom

Sound Design Assistant/Assistant Sound

Editor (Uncredited) - Andrea Gard

Supervising Sound Editor - Dennis Leonard

Supervising Dialogue Editor - Curt Schulkey

Sound Effects Editor - Beau Borders

Production Sound - Gregory E. Gerlich

Foley Artists - Dennie Thorpe and

Jana Vance

Foley Mixer - Tony Eckert

Re-Recording Mixers - Kevin E. Carpenter

and Gregory H. Watkins
Music - Michael Kamen


Review
Hello everyone. Welcome to my 100th review. This movie will bring you and your family together as you watch it. THE IRON GIANT tells a story about a young boy who befriends a giant robot in the directorial debut of Pixar veteran Brad Bird. The 2D animated picture never looked marvellous and boldly matched the setting of the 1950s when communism was a hot-button issue. The hand-drawn animation was intermingled with computer-generated imagery as the film's title character looked terrific in CGI. In particular, the scene when he transforms into one deadly machine after he gets ticked off by the military.

I was unaware that action star Vin Diesel voiced the same giant robot. It is an exceptional role for him, and I like how he distorts his deep, gravelled masculine voice for the character.

I find THE IRON GIANT the most fun, touching and heart-wrenching movie. It is also a great 2D animated picture. I recommend this film to those who enjoy movies that are either sci-fi animation or directed by Brad Bird.

Star rating: (4/5) Good Movie

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