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The Iron Giant| Director: | Brad Bird | | Writer: | Tim McCanlies | | Warner Bros.; 90 minutes; PG | | Release: | 8/99 | | Voices of: | Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr., Vin Diesel, Eli Marienthal |
The Iron Giant is based on British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes' 1968 book for children. Penned by an intellectual and adapted with respect, it is the warm tale of a boy and his 50-foot robot. The metal-eating iron giant crashes into the sea outside Hogarth's Maine town (slyly named Rockwell). The year is 1957 — fears of Communism and atomic bombs wrack the nation. Young Hogarth (Eli Marienthal) hides the amnesiac robot, gently teaching him pacifism, sheltering the giant in a local beatnik's (Harry Connick Jr.) junkyard. Then come the Feds. Themes of anti-violence, gun control, and the dangers of paranoia and militarization are handled very well. The movie treats its young viewers with respect. Solid animation supports the dominant suggestion of a need for technology's humanization.
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