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This gentle reworking of Ted Hughes's 1968 novella was the unseen gem of 1999. Hogarth, a ... more
young boy who lives in the Maine woods during the cold war, befriends a giant robot. As with ET, the iron giant is a misunderstood outsider who becomes a child's ...
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This gentle reworking of Ted Hughes's 1968 novella was the unseen gem of 1999. Hogarth, a ... more
young boy who lives in the Maine woods during the cold war, befriends a giant robot. As with ET, the iron giant is a misunderstood outsider who becomes a child's ...
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Something huge is on the horizon. Hogarth Hughes just rescued an enormous robot that fell ... more
from the stars to Earth. Now young Hogarth has a very big friend and an even bigger problem: How do you keep a 50-foot-tall, steel-eating (junkyard cars are espec...
The Iron Giant tells the story of young Hogarth who becomes the luckiest kid in the world ... more
after discovering an Iron Giant in his Maine backyard. Hogarth becomes the best friend and unlikely guardian to the 50-foot metal-eating Giant as the military c...
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Sci-fi and animation are genres to which Michael Kamen is almost a stranger (although ... more
Event Horizon almost qualifies as both!) and it's amazing to see what a new canvass inspires. The Iron Giant is a score of David and Goliath proportions, extending to extremes of subtlety and boldness for nine-year-old "Hogarth Hughes" and his new pal, the giant robot. "Cat and Mouse" demonstrates things nicely in an hilarious conversation in the style of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, with timid flutes questioning and being answered by blaring low brass. "You Can Fix Yourself ?" is then the sweet start of their relationship. The album opens with "The Eye Of The Storm", which, with its brass crescendo citing Mr. Holland's Opus, is at once obviously Kamen and then delightfully much more. Throughout there's a use of glockenspiel that mimics the mechanic workings of the robot, as well as a rapidly played synth musical box effect: both are linked to the innocence of the friends. In contrast is "The Army Arrives", a raucous piece of militaria quite different for the composer in its taut rhythm (he's generally distinguishable for his long-line melodies). A rare opportunity to find the Kamen kid in an empty playground. --Paul Tonks
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An enormous robot has come from the deepest space, crash-landed on Earth, and followed ... more
eleven-year-old Hogarth Hughes home.Now, young Hogarth has one big friend and an even bigger problem: How do you keep a secret that's 50 feet tall? Especially when a paranoid government agent is on the alien invader's trail, bringing with him the full might of the U.S. military to destroy the giant. It all adds up to a rousing adventure that's part metal, part magic... and all heart.
Advantages: Great storyline and voices Disadvantages: Not recommended much
...crashed on us and all the 'new suggested items' were put on hold for weeks on end!? Then suddenly one day all the hundreds of opinions poured onto the latest opinions page...
Well that was when I posted this opinion, I love this film and I spent a while making my op just as good but I hardly got any reads out of it, so I've made a few changes and if any of you are interested, Read on...
I watched this film on TV one ... ...that good, I was wrong! The film was great and almost instantly decided to write an opinion on it!
Anyway onto The Iron Giant itself, the film was originated from a poem written by famous poet, Ted Hughes. The poem was supposedly written for his children but the idea of the Iron Giant was used to create the film by DISNEY and as expected it met all its expectations.
The film tells the story about a young boy called ... more
Do you remember a little while back when ciao basically, completely crashed on us and all the 'new suggested items' were put on hold for weeks on end!? Then suddenly one day all the hundreds of opinions poured onto the latest opinions page...
Well that was when I posted this opinion, I love this film and I spent a while making my op just as good but I hardly got any reads out of it, so I've made a few changes and if any of you are interested, Read on...
I watched this film on TV one weekend, I was looking forward to it, but I didn't personally think it would be that good, I was wrong! The film was great and almost instantly decided to write an opinion on it!
Anyway onto The Iron Giant itself, the film was originated from a poem written by famous poet, Ted Hughes. The poem was supposedly written for his children but the idea of the Iron Giant was used to create the film by DISNEY and as expected it met all its expectations.
The film tells the story about a young boy called Hogarth Hughes who one night comes across a 50 ft tall iron giant. Hogarth Hughes being himself saves the giant and manages to make friends with the thing, he helps the giant to learn how to talk and become the next super hero.
With all the destruction that a 50ft iron giant could possibly do, the town is on the lookout and with evil federal agent Kent Mansley searching for the giant, times proove hard for both the iron giant and Hogarth.
After convincing the local scrap yard man that the iron giant exists and he is good NOT bad, Hogarth manages to find a place for the iron giant to kip the night, better yet a place he can eat as well. ~ The iron giant only eats metal which makes the scrap heap the perfect place.
Then Hogarth finds himself along with the giant, taking on the whole U.S army! The US is convinced that the giant is nothing but trouble and needs to die, with the help of the scrap yard man and Hogarths single mother, Hogarth believes he can win. So the story goes on to find out whether Hogarth will save the iron giant......
The film is set in Rockwell US and although is only a cartoon, it's a great film indeed. With many voices used for the actors and actresses, surely the best one has to be Hogarths. ~ This voice is done by Eli Marienthal. (I didn't actually know this until , 'babyxxgirl' another fellow ciao member informed me! ~ You should check out her opinions too, they're great!)
It took me a while to get round to seeing this film but I've now seen it and I wasn't disapointed at all, if you're up for a lame laugh and some funny cartoon work, this is one for you, as usual it meets all of DISNEY's expectations, It's a really good story and very touching, also very sad. Produced by Disney, this film is 1 of a kind and I'll surely go back and watch it again one day. ~ It's a film for everyone, the whole family so if you haven't seen it yet, what are you waiting for!!!??? Thanks for reading everyone, cheers ~M~ (EmmaXXX)
Advantages: Great characters, funny, touching, very entertaining Disadvantages: Though the FX are good, they're not up to the fantastico stuff we've seen more recently, also not many extra features
...seem to be taking over the animation market. Whereas Disney’s recent releases (Mulan, The Emperor’s New Groove and Dinosaur spring to mind) have not achieved the success of their earlier releases, such as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Little Mermaid, animation features that are coming from the folds of other production studios are doing roaring trade, Shrek being an excellent example. One other such animation feature is The Iron ... ...is an animation adaptation of the Ted Hughes book ‘The Iron Man’, which most of us probably read in school. The film tells the story of Hogarth Hughes, a young adventurous boy who makes a discovery that is feared by most but terrifically exciting to him. Whether the film actually stays true to the original story, I’m afraid I can’t say because it’s been so long since I have read it.
Hogarth lives with his mother, Annie, ...
jess0910 12.11.2001
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Advantages: Visually stunning Disadvantages: Might be put off due to comparisons with a classic book
The year is 1957 a lone satellite, Sputnik, drifts in orbit around Earth, its monotone pips the only sound to violate the silent void. Far off past the moon an object appears, at first a dot, then rapidly growing in size. It throw plumes of steam into the velvet black as it hurtles towards earth right into the eye of a storm, in more ways than one.
Off the coast of Maine…
A tiny boat is tossed around on a mountainous sea like a matchbox….
... ...North 68 degrees…..”
In the distance a flash of light stands out against the dark and sullen storm clouds as an object streaks into the boiling sea.
“I don’t know somewhere off the coast of Rockwell, wait I can see the light house….”
Marv Loach, looks up at one light through the black haze of rain and sees a light in the distance one light becomes two side by side. He drops his jaw and his radio set in one movement ...
DiazX 05.03.2002
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...clutching a ticket to see The Iron Giant. I had not been greatly impressed by most of the recent Disney offerings(A Bugs Life aside) and the thought of seeing a non-Disney movie with a voice-over cast list of B-movie standard actors didn’t do much to whet the appetitie. However, I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised to find that The Iron Giant was not another Disney-wannabe but rather a thought provoking morality tale packed with social ... ...both adults and children. The hokey comedy element is not the main feature of The Iron Giant as is the case with many other animated cartoons, but a complementary element of the movie as a whole and as such I feel that it works well on both adult and child levels. Set in 1950’s America, we are first introduced to a young boy named Hogarth. He is a lonely child, the son of an over worked waitress(voiced by Jennifer Aniston) and makes various ...
wampyrii 13.03.2001
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Advantages: marvellous film, with stunning visuals on dvd Disadvantages: ermmmmm...
...this film and walked by the cinema so many times during it's short run in my town. couldn't quite overcome the stigma of a 27 year old bloke going in to see a childrens movie. what a fool. this is no childrens movie. this is a movie that should be seen by everyone, based, eventually, quite loosely on a book that should be read by everyone. i picked it up on dvd during a sale and thought i'd get round to watching it some time. what a fool. it sat ... ...sat with my girlfriend, put the film in, seeing as West Ham in the 2nd round of the Worthington Cup had been frowned upon, and we both sat transfixed for a blissful 90 minutes. It was superb. No songs, no cute animals, no condescending morality tales, just downright good fun. briefly, the story of a young child who lives only with his hardworking mother, which leaves him plenty of time to sit in front of sci-fi films on tv. his imagination is fertile, ...
dadmancat 10.01.2001
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Advantages: great characters and animation Disadvantages: not many dvd extras
...robot falls from space to the earth to be discovered by a young boy named Hogarth Hughes. It's the fifties and america is just coming out of the war. Hogarth finds this giant metal robot to be quite innocent but has a problem hiding the 50 foot tall monster and keeping him a secret. This robot likes to eat metal and soon some cars are left chomped in half that interests the government. Naturally Hogarth and the Iron Ginat have a lot of fun until ... ...some great litl touches about the period it's set in with references to america's fascination with all things nuclear. It also has a lot of humour and you'd never think you could care so much for a 50-foot tall piece of metal. Harry Knowles of Aint It Cool News.Com raved about the film and rightly so but sadly it didn't really set the box office alight. The dvd is in it's original 2.35:1 widescreen format and is anamorphic. The transfer I would imagine ...
utero 26.06.2001
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