Based on a children's story (The Iron Man) by the late Ted Hughes, this plays an interesting riff on the magical friend theme so common in American film and deserves points for its unfashionable commitment to pacifism. Realising that it has been constructed as a weapon, the giant decides that it doesn't want to be a gun, but when Kent calls in the army and even summons a nuclear strike, defence mechanisms switch on and a tragic outcome looks likely.Īfter the scrappy, opportunistic Space Jam, this second fully-animated feature from Warner Bros is a delightful surprise. After rescuing the wonderful being from electrocution at a power plant, Hogarth hides it in a junkyard run by sculptor Dean McCoppin (Connick Jr.) while paranoid Government agent Kent Mansley (McDonald) searches for the creature that has been taking sizable bites out of cars and other metal structures. In 1957, with Sputnik in orbit and America in a panic over the communist threat, youngster Hogarth Hughes (voiced by Eli Marienthal) stumbles over a newly-arrived visitor from space - a towering robot with a dented dome that has given it amnesia.
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