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Movie Review #1 - The Iron Giant (1999)

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A Movie Review by Carter Rutledge for: Movie Synopsis: This is the story of a nine-year-old boy named Hogarth Hughes who makes friends with an innocent giant robot that came from outer space. Meanwhile, a paranoid U.S. Government agent named Kent Mansley arrives in town, determined to destroy the giant at all costs. It's up to Hogarth to protect him by keeping him at Dean McCoppin's place in the junkyard. MPAA Rating:  PG The Good: The acting, the story, the pacing, the animation and pretty much everything. The Bad: A couple of uneccicary humor moments and historical inaccuracies. Why I Watched it: So there is this website called Lego Ideas , and on that website you post something you made out of LEGO bricks. Users then vote, and if your project reaches 10,000 votes, it has a chance at becoming a real LEGO set. A friend and I were looking at popular projects on that site, and one was called The Iron Giant. We had never heard of it, but the post claime...