#“The Iron Giant”
A new Top Parenting Tip, keep your kids up until 9pm watching The Iron Giant and they'll all sleep until 8.30am the following morning.
Until last night I had only ever seen the start and near the end of movie so had thought it was a dark ponderous but meaningful piece by the director of one of my all-time favourite movies, The Incredibles. I was totally wrong. It's light, funny, interesting and kept 6 of us (aged 3, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 41) riveted to the screen for an hour and a half.
They didn't even mind that the movie was "old-fashioned" (1999) and set in the "olden-days" (1957).
It's a rare movie that has something for every age with Toy Story being the exemplar of that. This achieves the same feat and manages to shoe-horn in a message there too.
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