I can see why this flopped. It's too preachy and didactic, plus the ending is a cop-out.

I get it, Bird. You wanted to make a 2D animation movie that focuses only on human characters and doesn't have any musical numbers. That's perfectly fine, but you have to give me some substance in return. Otherwise, the whole thing ends up being tepid.

Not a fan of the kid's design

Brad Bird is overrated.

Enough with the Superman threads

There is a lack of character development here. Neither the kid, the mother or the beatnik have any real growth or arcs. They don't have many flaws either.

>>212572823
>Every character needs an arc

TAKE ME TO CHURCH

>>212571375 (OP)
Iron up, wood.

>"The Iron Giant" is not a complete washout (it's a little too aspiring for that), but remains a missed opportunity. The film strains to follows the cookie-cutter basics of the plot, in which "boy-meets-robot, boy-befriends-robot, boy-must-bid-farewell-to-robot-when-his-safety-is-threatened," and not once strays from this well-worn path. The entrance of agent Kent Mansley is irritating and a throwaway stock villain character, while the other supporting animated figures play as more of an afterthought. Finally, young, precocious Hogarth must briefly say goodbye to his beloved friend in the supposed-to-be-heart-tugging climax, but all I could really think about at that moment was, "I've seen this all before, and to much more powerful effect." Animated feature or not, "The Iron Giant" attempts to stray from the beaten path of Disney, but really, who is Warner Brothers kidding? I'll take Disney's superior animated entertainment, "Tarzan," over this any day of the week

One of the few negative reviews it got in 1999

What happened to Mansley? He just disappears from the movie. We don't even see his reaction after the giant stops the missile.

>>212573973
Promoted to the FBI.

Why did Mansley keep staring?

>>212571375 (OP)
Bad b8 thread

>>212575330
He was a pedofile. That's why he's just dropped from the movie. He was arrested but the scene was deemed not child appropriate so it was removed from the finale cut.