[Movie 176 / Day 193]
Based on Ted Hughes’ childrens book, The Iron Giant is the story of a massive robot falling to earth from outer space in 1950s America. As it roams around the countryside, a comic-book obsessed young boy (Hogarth) goes looking for it. Whilst he watches it grabs hold of part of an electricity substation and receives a huge electric shock. Hogarth runs over and throws a big switch, saving the Iron Giant.
After that, the two become friends; Hogarth helping the Giant to hide in a local scrap yard whilst avoiding the suspicions of both his mother and an overzealous government agent who has been sent to investigate the strange sightings.
The animation is a beautiful mix of traditional hand drawn and computer generated and the voice work is very well cast.
One of my favourite animated movies.
Rating: 
[ IMDB rating: 7.9 / 10 | IMDB link | Running time: 86 mins ]