One of the best movies ever. Not just animation or "kids" movies, it's fantastic. Sure it's the typical "boy and his dog" story but it does it so well.
yeah, because the Iron Giant doesn't act like a dog. he acts like a kid controlling a 50 story robot of mass destruction. I always hated when they made non-dog anything act like a dog. that's a horse, not a dog. make it act like a horse!
Masterpiece doesn’t do this film justice. This is borderline a perfect film. I mean how many other “kids” films do you know where an adult chloroforms a kid?
It's not a movie, but the Netflix show Arcane definitely has the exact same chloroform scenario in the end of episode 3... so freaky that it could happen twice 😳
Yeah Mansley's a very mad person who would never care for the iron giant to be a good guy or to be seen as a friendly but man what a villian he was Mansley
While the anti-war message is very apparent, I always felt that the ultimate message of the movie was defying destiny, or forging your own destiny. Great movie.
Which is the most overrated message in kids animation movies. I can’t think of a single animated kids movie that’s not had that message to at least some extent. I don’t even believe it’s a good message, cuz often ur just not probably qualified to make that destiny or you just don’t have the resources for what it takes
@@rom7809 Yeah, being a free thinking individual is soooo over-rated. The Giant should have just been a gun, cuz guns are rad and guns being rad is the only good message and it's so underutilized too...
@@mooseitself how did you misinterpret what I said so badly. The theme of being who you wanna be is really overrated in KIDS MOVIES. Then u said this had to to with the giant’s weapons n shit. No, the message is being ANTI-war not PRO-war. And it’s very underrated because why do you think people racistly stereotype others to the point they want to go to war with them. name THREE kids animated movies that have that warning. I really want to find the place you get ur drugs, cuz your mind is FUNKY
For being 9 years old, Hogarth is surprisingly mature and intelligent, from stopping the Giant from entering the town (despite being psyched about being seen cool by his classmates for having his own giant robot), being the one who teaches the robot about morality, and his schemes that got Mansley off their backs. I legit thought he was 12 when I first saw this and came back to it years later but it floored me when I learned his real age.
That's true, in the movie he is the gifted smart kid that skipped classes because he's really intelligent, he's seen as emotionally intuitive as well (cares about animals, other beings etc) so it fits well.
We really have to give nearly ALL of the praise to Brad Bird because before he signed on board, WB was still in that phase of "We must copy Disney's formula" with their Disney wannabe movies like Quest for Camelot and The King & I. They wanted The Iron Giant a funny musical and possibly live action at one point but once Brad Bird came in, his pitch was "What if a gun had a soul and didn't want to be a gun?" which was the question he wanted to tell ever since his sister died from her husband who killed her with a gun and the movie was gonna get made and dedicated to her. Making it more of a personal film to Brad Bird. It became less of a musical and more of a mature and existential kids movie about death and self-identity. And while it was a huge bomb, it was good enough in Pixar's eyes that it led him to direct my favorite Pixar movies: The Incredibles and Ratatouille. Ironically, The Iron Giant felt more like a 2D Pixar movie or even a modern Disney film than what WB was intending the movie to be like which was completely copying Disney's craze from the 90s .
No joke as i kid i watched this movie easily over 200 times, sometimes on repeat. It’s a fantastic story, with really beautiful animation, some of which is even directly inspired by Norman Rockwell. Its an honest 10/10 experience that never got the recognition it deserves!
I remember my mom telling me that we went through a couple copies on VHS because I would watch it so much. Just watching the recap was giving me chills
I watched this at about 9 years old, almost a decade on it still doesn't fail at making me cry God I absolutely love this movie and really hope more people can appreciate it
The scene with hogarth being high on caffeine and going on a rant about how kids bully him because he does his schoolwork properly is one of my fav scenes as well as the most relatable. I love it so much, plus the whole sequence was animated by one of my favorite animators, james baxter, which explains the insane fluid movement.
Yeah, I don’t get it though, Atlantis was a failure, but that movie was great. Treasure Planet was a failure, but again that movie was great. Spirit was again a failure, BUT YET AGAIN THAT MOVIE WAS GREAT. What is with this lmao
@@certifiedintellectualjames5053 Low exposure in the pre-Internet age due to poor advertisement. Well, not really pre-Internet, but it wasn't that good or widespread back then
@@steelbear2063 Eh good point, but you’d think with such good films they woulda at least advertised it better because of it, like say for example with how most films were popular back then, I mean who could miss out on Treasure Planet? Spirit? I mean freaking Atlantis?
@@certifiedintellectualjames5053 I missed Atlantis. Then again I'm not American, so you know, you get what you get. And I'm grateful that as a kid I watched Shrek and Iron Giant
I love this movie and I hate that it doesn’t have as much big name appeal. I always tear up at the end when the giant sacrifices himself to save everyone in the town
And the end Clip that he didnt actually Die to the blast, Just Deconstructed. The iron giant is seen putting himself back together, Sucks that a second movie probably just couldn't work. But imagine this, Pixar decides to Make the 2nd movie and this time, the child Hogarth is older now, it's a Story of How the iron giant And Hogarth tries to stop the Rest of the robot Army coming to destroy the earth.
@@thegoldenplague-mask5438 while that's an interesting idea I think this is one of those movies that's best left as a standalone story. plus with all the sequelitis plaguing the movie industry right now, despite this film being from the 90s it's ironically a breath of fresh air
I cry so hard every time I watch this movie. Every. Single. Time. I love that everything is hand drawn EXCEPT the Iron Giant himself, he was animated with CG to make him seem more futuristic which was brilliant. I think that the most beautiful way to teach kids about death was that seen with the giant Hogarth and the dead deer. It doesn’t get into religion either, it’s just about souls and existence. Truly a beautifully delivered message
I love how they made the giants design to that of a lovable robot that can switch to a terrifying murder machine in a split second, the face is especially where you can see the most out of this for me
Yeah I don’t know how they managed to do it but Christopher McDonald was perfect casting for Kent. He managed to make an antagonist both hilarious and menacing without dragging either side to him too much. Also, hearing him threaten Hogarth into talking or he’ll have him taken away from his mother, is quite a villain power move. Especially since he has reason to do so. He has proof that Hogarth without the power station, and if word got out through town that people’s power went out because a little boy was messing with it, people will start questioning where was the mom. Heck, he probably would find a way to pin the train wreck on Hogarth too. And because of this, people will start investigating the Mrs Hughes and the household, and find her unfit….
I know it sounds silly but as a kid hearing adult characters say things like damn and hell made me like the show/movie a lot more. Felt like they respected me more by giving a more realistic representation of how people talked even though i was young.
And so many mature themes too... They didn't shy away of talking about death, war, politics, about depicting one of the greatest periods of mass panic, distrust and paranoia in human history accurately... All in ways a child could understand, but without underestimating their intelligence.
actually, there's a massive difference between a movie being anti "shoot first and ask questions later" and anti "gun". a gun is a tool, which can be used or misused. the movie doesn't speak ill of self defense at all, but rather speaks ill of senseless killing and destruction.
@@kingcobra689 you have a way to disprove what i said, or are you just trying to generalize and label me in order to make my point look invalid without actually invalidating it?
This movie had some Moments in it that stuck with me big time. "You are who you choose to be." is everything to me. It's absolutely amazing and I'm so glad you did a video on it.
I don't think the giant poops. I think he just eats the metal and then uses like nanobots that deconstruct the metal and help to keep the parts together. That would make the most sense to me
This movie is like megamind. Both feels like a parody of superman and people demonstrate the main characters like monsters although they want to be the good guy.
You know how there are just movies you watched so much as a kid that certain objects and movements always stick in your mind and you think back to a movie, and when you watch the movie everything is so vivid and you remember everything clearly.....Hard to describe what I mean, but iron giant is absolutely one of those movies for me. Particularly when he opens up the bread box and wraps the flash light on his gun, and putting the chocolate onto the shake
oooh yes I know exacly what you mean especialy for animation certain actions in movies stick in you mind like how Howard crumbles the chocolax on Kent's milkshake yes
I totally get this feeling, for me this would've been the first avengers movie, i remember having the dialogue and sound design memorized from watching it so much
Another theory, the dent could have come form a malfunction in the production line making the iron giants (knowing there are multiple of them). Kinda like a Star Wars droid gaining sentience from production line moment.
This film is just such a good piece of children's media. It deserves far better on release then it got, and the cult following it gained years afterwards is absolutely well deserved. Sidenote - the fact the Giant is in Multiversus and got to MEET Superman is everything the little kid still in me wanted to see.
I've never seen this movie before. I know a lot of people like it, but I never had a CLUE what happened in the movie. This is the best masterpiece of a movie I have ever heard of. It was a movie I thought about watching before, and am DEFINITELY going to be watching now. Also... so THAT'S where that "it's art!" gif came from XD
@@janae5989 I'm ashamed to say that I haven't watched it yet, even after two months. HOWEVER!!! I have recently made plans with some friends to watch it soon, so I will update you when we watch it! :)
My mother was born in ‘56, they did the whole duck n’ cover thing all the way into the early 60’s when she was in grade school. They would watch cartoons exactly like the ones in the movie. Along with the Cold War there was the Cuban missile crisis in ‘62, so there was a ton of fear both of my parents (they were born the same year) had to deal with back then. Scary scary shit!
I'm about to put my soul into this. This is by far my favourite movie of all time. I remember eating sun chips while watching the movie and going "mama look I'm the giant" because the chips looked like the wavy piece of metal in the film. I just recently watched it with friends and there's that part where the bomb shelter song was playing (get low to the ground, it's time to duck and cover the bombs are comin' down) and I began singing it in autopilot. I've even got "you are who you choose to be" on the inside of my graduation ring. Well I know who I wanna be and it isn't the man of steel; It's the Iron Giant❤️
When you were saying how the Iron Giant says “Superman” as he is flying to sacrifice himself, I teared up. I’ve never seen this movie but dang, that was good. Now I HAVE to watch it.
Every time I see an older movie that has a dark room scene involving developing photographic film, it's always really satisfying. When I was attending university, I took a course on Dark Room Photography, and all of our assignments involved learing and taking photos with a film camera, and it is tedious as hell using those things. Everything regarding the picture taking itself is completely manual; zoom, focus, light filter, shutter speed, all of it had to be specifically set and wasn't done automatically. Then you had to remove the film and do a step-by-step procedure of developing the film in a dark room that normally took at least an hour, ensuring that the film does not get exposed to light in the process, and you wouldn't even know if your photos came out okay until you did all this. If it didn't, or if the film was ruined at any point in the process, you would have to start over with a new film, which doesn't come cheap (you're in college; they expect you to pay for everything). So seeing scenes like Kent developing photos from Hogarth's camera in a bathroom under a dim red light are the kinds of things I get more appreciation from. Only complaint I have is that the photo would not develop that quickly in the developer. It takes a few minutes. But it's supposed to be a quick scene, so I understand they needed to rush it.
Brad Bird really was perfect to direct this film with his keen eye of the balance of wacky comedic moments especially with the hilarious antagonist but also embrace the more dramatic elements such as the Cold War setting, the Giant almost injuring Hogarth during play before Dean intervenes & of course the emotional ending. It’s one of the ‘90s most underrated films
A part of me strongly wants a sequel because there's so much stuff to explore about the Giant's origins, but the other part doesn't want it to happen because today's sequels tend to be trash and to ruin the original product because M O N E Y .
Controversial opinion: But I honestly think the ending should’ve been changed. Don’t get me wrong, eight-year-old me when I saw this movie had a happy smile on my face when I saw that the Giant turn out to be still alive. But now that I’m older, I think the ending ruins the theme of what Hogarth said about it’s okay to die, as long as you have a soul, because “Souls don’t die.”. If they really wanted this ending, maybe have it right at the moment when Hogarth is still sleeping and we see the bolt next to him, only for the film to cut when we hear the beeping noise, leaving it ambiguous to whether the Giant is still alive or not.
@@godfrey4461 He saying he didn’t want it to be where the peace moves. He wanted it to be left for the people to decide is he alive or is he not alive. To be honest in my opinion, this ending was good, but I feel like it should’ve been changed. Because, like the first comment said, Hogarth told us a lesson that it’s OK to die because souls never die. And then we find out the giant never actually died, he just was blasting the several pieces. It kind of messes up the message
@@Bookgurl656 maybe so, but it’s worth sacrificing for the happier ending. This movie deals with a lot of heavy themes but presents them in a way that younger audiences can digest. That ability to digest hinges upon Giant surviving and ending on a happy note.
This movie really stuck with me and I LOVE it. I remember a few years ago it was playing on tv and my sister was like “wtf is this” and I was like trust me wait By the end we were balling, it’s SO good
"You are what you choose to be! You choose!" That really stuck with me as a kid, and still does to this day. I'm glad to see someone talking about this (imo) underrated classic.
Aside from The Incredibles, Brad Bird’s other animated endeavours should never have been slighted so hard. Also, it’s not animated but I loved Tomorrowland.
This is one of my most favorite animated movies of all time. Brad Bird saved The Iron Giant & helped make it into what it is. The Incredible came shortly after & I love that the faces of the characters in both of these films look alike. It's kinda cute.
I watched this movie so many times as a kid and even back then it was one of my all time favorites. I am embarrassed to say that your video taught me that the film ends with the Iron Giant surviving. As a kid I was too stupid and/or too sad to understand the part with the screw meant that it reassembled itself again. All my life I thought it had this bitter sweet ending where it died but was remembered by the town, lmao
Interesting how you mentioned the deleted scene. Nowadays, if you buy a DVD of this movie, the scene is included in full. Also another amazing thing, the original run of the DVD only had the shot of the giant about to crash into the Earth, no title, no copyright, no nothing. Just the image. Always love the ominous-ness of it, and watching this as I grew up, my favorite film of all time.
Absolutely loved this as a child and just recalling the "superman" death scene made me cry. Masterpiece doesn't do this justice whatsoever. Almost 20 years later and it's still impeccable and dare I say even a foundational part of my personality.
I love this movie so much. Its absolute perfection. I cant think of a single thing wrong with it. It's an absolute achievement to animation and movies in general. It's a wonderful movie, and the documentary that comes with the blue ray adds to the experience. One of the reasons of this movie was anti gun, because brad bird lost his sister to gun violence. It's so tragic and he channeled that grief into a masterpiece. And that's why I love art.
It's worth noting how personal the message of this film was to the director, Brad Bird. "What if a gun had a soul and didn't want to be a gun." Brad's sister was killed by a gun in a home invasion while Brad was still quite young, and it stuck with him his entire life. This movie almost seems like a part of his grieving.
03:29 There are two versions of the movie. One with and one without the scene in it. Hograth catches small glimpse of the Iron Giant's dream on their TV. I liked that the scene was included, it gives some extra context for the story. While the reaction craze for this movie was going around, a lot adults had the same question, which that deleted scene answered, but they watched the older version without it so they were confused. I'm bias towards it, of course, but I can also see how not having that scene can add to the mystery of who the Giant is and that it doesn't matter as much. Personally I think it's makes the Giant's character stronger with that tid bit of his past. It emphasises the change nicely.
Childhood classic, I genuinely cried during the end bomb scene every time I watched it, and whenever it was on TV I'd ask for it on. It hit hard even if I couldn't get half of it as a kid and Its genuinely my favourite film to this day
I loved and still love this movie, I just love how it’s both very funny, very scary at times, and also pretty sad as well while still balancing it all out pretty well
This movie will always hold such a special place in my heart - its my grandads favourite movie, and every time i see him we always watch it together and it still makes him cry at the end, no matter how many times we watch it. I havent seen him since before the pandemic. I love you grandad.
It’s not often that I watch a review for a movie from when I was a kid and get moved to tears. So congrats you made me cry. 💀 I thought only the movie itself could make me cry.
GAWD this movie is so freaking good. Its just so well made, so visually pleasant, well scripted, well laid out, well acted, well voiced, well designed. Fun, sad, exciting, thrilling, frightening, relevant, memorable. Its cinema.
To this day, I still get chills when I see the raw levels of emotion that the giant shows whenever he thinks that Hogarth is dead. Everything from his hands trembling to the heartbreaking whimpers really demonstrate just how far the character has come since the beginning of the movie. His first few scenes have his body moving in a much more robotic and stiff way and this scene shows beautifully just how human the giant has become. This movie has always remained one of my all times favorite pieces cinema, let alone animated films. There’s a reason that this film has a cult following and I am so happy when I see new people getting introduced to it.
This movie was so important to me as a kid, omfg. I still cry at the end, it's just so damn good. Honestly, there were some banger non-Disney animated movies in the 90s and early 2000s. Iron Giant, Quest for Camelot, Anastasia. All movies that I watched non-stop as a kid and would still watch today, if given the chance lol.
@@osmanyousif7849 Never saw that Batman movie but I 100% agree on everything else. I've watched all those movies multiple times, at least. Cats Don't Dance and Space Jam, especially, lol.
I loved this movie as a kid. Used to watch it a lot. I want to believe this movie was the main inspiration for the Bumblebee. While a lot of reviews I've seen compare that movie to ET and rarely did I see it be compare it to The Iron Giant. Which I think shows more how underrated and unappreciated The Iron Giant is.
No joke, I literally watched this film at least 3 times EVERYDAY. God, this movie was so good. Actually, NO, I take it back, this movie is more than perfect.
There are so many things i love and adore about this film from facts about it to just general appreciation for it, one of them being when hogarth is explaining about a soul to the giant the whole animation team where in tears when they saw the draft animation, as well as how the giants body movements go from being robotic to more human after his time with hogarth
This was my older brother's favorite movie ever so by default, I watched it so many times. And even to this day it makes me tear up near the end. When the Iron Giant says superman I get so fucking soft. God this movie is perfect
I watched this movie so many times when I was younger and it's definitely one of my favorites! Up there with Matilda. It's to the point to where when I saw the Nickelodeon fighter trailer, when Superman and Iron Giant meet up I almost shed a tear.
I’ve been binging your content and I’m sooo glad you touched on this movie, it’s definitely one of my favourites and the style is so unique. it’s down to earth and very realistic, dare I say timeless even for being set in the 1940s. when I watched it as a kid (and even now tbh) the part where the Iron Giant goes full shoot-shit mode was terrifying and unsettling. I kind of wish there was a sequel or a spin off to see where the Giant ended up, and the kind of person Hogarth grew to be after his experience.
You’re just reminding me how much I love this movie. Never saw it in theaters, but I remember it annually airing on TV and always watching it. Even the CN marathon. My brothers and I friggin loved this movie. Then as an adult, I told grandma how much I wanted a blue-ray of it. After several years, for Christmas Grandma found it, and it was the biggest thrill from all us adults grandkids. Best gift.
My mom's old friend from highschool, Teddy Newton, worked on this film. This was one of the first animated movies along with the Incredibles that brought it down to earth that i too could some day be an artist who works on movies, even tho i was like 4 years old lmao. Still one of my favorite movies that holds a dear place in my heart.
Literally my favorite film of all time since I was a child! So. Damn. GOOD! Also enjoyed since it came out, but very much appreciate it even more so as I got older. I know most people hate the live-action remakes, but I myself would die to see this movie get a live-action adaptation. Especially with today's CGI!? Hell yeah.
I remember staying the night at a friend's and couldn't sleep during the 3 day marathon of this movie. I couldn't find the remote so I ended up watching it 4 times in a row before the morning came. The only bit of joy I felt was the cartoon short they played in between airings before it started back up again. I've never watched it since.
Heh... I always kinda imagined that, in the end, the the giant would use that memorial statue to reassemble himself--- so he'd still be an iron robot, but from then he'd be closer to human-size.
I swear I've had literally the same experience as you. Last time I watched this I was probably 5 or 6 or sth. But I remember rewatching this like every week so much, that my whole family had seen it at least 10 times with me. My mom watched it every time with me she liked it very much too. This is such a nostalgia trip like holy shit
I remember hoping that a sequel would be made since I saw the ending for the first time, but now I realize that this masterpiece doesn't need a second movie. One movie is enough. Just like coraline, masterpiece. One book, one movie. The people saying they need a coraline 2 clearly don't know that there's only one book. Plus what would the sequel be about? The beldam is gone, the ghost kids are free, and Coraline is happy where she is. Just like how Hogarth is happy where he is. These masterpieces do not need sequels.
As a kid I would watch Iron giant so much and I'm so happy it's getting some more recognition Even hearing you describe the scene where the giant saves everyone makes me start to tear up
I absolutely agree. It's a good thing the scene was deleted. That tid bit was super important and great to learn after the story is done if you want to know more about the world. But as a part of the story it would only draw focus away from the things that are important, like the relationship between Hogarth and the giant, or the fear that the army has because of the unknown of who the giant is or why he's here. Also I wouldn't be surprised to learn that he eats to make ammo
I remember borrowing this movie from my town's local library so often and watching it on repeat constantly at home when i was a kid. It was and still is such an incredible movie, and watching this just made me wanna rewatch it again:)
Wait people don't like this movie? Just the 'horror' section alone with the Power Plant was great, every section having its own beautiful pieces, animation and remarkably fun characters.
can i say, i always enjoy the next upload BionicPig makes. the way he edits and meshes the unpredictable humour and memes are some of my highlights of watching, as well as seeing childhood content brought back into the limelight.
I guess I never viewed this as an anti-gun movie, but more of a "how you use it matters" movie. the Iron Giant himself is a weapon of mass destruction, but uses himself for good reasons such as protecting those he loves and only acting in self defense, which is exactly what guns should really be used for. also, I was always taught that the Red Menance was for Communism as a whole and not just Russia, but im not entirely sure if that's accurate
I never realised how great this movie is, I haven't seen it since I was a child and back then I didn't like it because it scared me. But I vividly remember parts that nowadays I love
Thank you for this video man. This is my favorite movie of all time and although I haven’t watched it in years, every time I do, I break down in tears. I even teared up a little watching this video bc of the nostalgia. It has such a special place in my heart and it deserves to be known as a masterpiece.
This movie is my childhood. Everytime CN had it on I watched it growing up (even when they played it 24 hours) I loved this movie and i still love this movie. It is my favorite movie of all time. No matter how many times i see it , i always laugh and cry at the same scenes. The deer scene, the souls don’t die scene and of course the ending, both the Superman moment and the literal last minute of movie when you see the giant rebuilding himself, I’m bawling. I would love to meet brad bird to personally thank him for my childhood with this film. This movie did not have to be so deep and mature but it was. I mean, what kid movie has the line “It’s bad to kill, but it’s not bad to die”. I recommend to anyone to get the blu ray release because not only do you get the deleted scene mentioned but there is also a whole making of documentary on it and it showcases everything to how Warner bros failed this movie with the marketing to seeing how they made the film and seeing all the animators have fun while also working their asses off making this film the best it could be. Even watching the crew watch a rough cut of the Souls don’t die scene is very emotional because every one is silent or crying. They all put their souls into this movie. Also, the anti-gun message hits harder when I learned (through this documentary) that Brad bird lost his Sister to gun violence. She was killed by her husband. It was so emotional hearing him talk about it. So Bird making a film with the premise “what if a gun didn’t want to be a gun” i can understand why he wanted to make that now. I can’t praise this film enough. I can literally go on forever about how much i adore this film.
This movie was everything to me when I was younger. Even now when I watch it, it makes me cry. I have such a strong attachment to this movie I think if I ever lose the DVD I'll sob.
the way this movie is so beautiful and underrated breaks my heart! thank you so much for making this video because i’ve been waiting for a commentary on this. i used to cry to this every day after kindergarten😂
Remember watching this as a kid on a giant laser disk at a cousin's house and was absolutely moved by all the characters. This film has everything, it's funny, charming, sad and uplifting and very mature. Brad Bird is a master. He treats the characters as real people and it shows in all his films from The Iron Giant to The Incredibles.
Fun fact, this was originally gonna be a musical film that was based off of Pete Townshend of The Who’s adaptation of the original book, “The Iron Man”. Though he ended up getting an executive producer credit.
This is Brad Birds greatest movie. I agree 100% percent with the whole video. This is one of the best animated movies of all time, and my favorite. This movie had me on a chockehold my whole life, for over the years I would watch the ending out of context and I would cry everytime. This is what I aspire as a storyteller, this movie has a special place in my heart
It's an amazing movie that hits so damn hard. Even though it's topics are grand in scope, they specifically use language that kids can understand without using words that sound demeaning to them. That kind of writing makes movies like this timeless. The people sound like people. I personally think that a major point is the design of the Iron Giant itself. It's simple design makes it memorable as well as its shapes and proportions make it look like a toy, emphasizing it as being not real in its otherwise believable story writing. Other toy elements can be seen when it transforms, especially the lights. Kids have very active imaginations, so these exaggerated elements could be important for the younger kids.
The Iron Giant was and still is one of my favorite movies. It's definitely my favorite 2D animated movies. Also, even as a kid, I understood how hopeless the town felt when the bomb went up into the air
