The Iron Giant is an American animated feature with no song and dance routines. No goofy sidekick characters. No villains, no fart gags like the rest of the animated movies we usually see. The story is basically about a little kid named Hogarth (voiced by Eli Marienthal) who finds a friendly alien robot (voiced by Vin Diesel) who brings back him to his home but he does not want his mother Annie (voiced played by Jennifer Aniston) to find out. He keeps the giant hidden but soon words spread and the US Army and government start looking for the giant believing that he might be harmful to the citizens. The little kid Hogarth knowing that the robot is completely harmless saves him from the government and the entire movie showing his bravery and loyalty. The story has seemed to be made in the 1950s capturing the classic essence in the entire movie.
As the giant can only move his eyes and lips Brad did a great job even animating the robot’s different emotions and face expression like sad, happy, wondering, hopeful etc. The colors, special effects and animations in this movie are fine and flawless. The kids loved it as it was different from other animated movies having a simple but cool storyline that will relax you while watching it. The movie The Iron Giant also teaches lessons about friendship, sacrifice, tolerance and all this without turning all preachy.
Brad Bird was not just directing the movie he was very excited to make an animated scene in The Iron Giant himself. Usually directors make a rough sketch about letting the special effects people and animators know what they want and leave the heavy lifting on them. But Bird loves his career and so passionate that it led him to animate a scene all by himself. It is the one where Hogarth has coffee for the first time. Brad admits that it was time consuming and hard to animate just a scene but the fun he had was worth it. In the career of Brad Bird, he finished his 1st animated film at the age of only 14 and then he joined Milt Kahl, Walt Disney renowned animators as an apprentice. He continued to make animated movies, as well as working on “Bartman” video on the famous TV series “The Simpsons”.
The Iron Giant is a cool, simple but brilliant animated movie that can be seen with your friends and family. The movie has loads of comedy which is sophisticated and decent making you chuckle for whole eight six minutes. The Iron Giant can be enjoyed by everyone despite of the fact of age, gender, cast or race. Although The Iron Giant show’s the robot as a massive, horrifying alien from outside but is really a gentle, sweet and harmless robot who acts and feels like humans do.