It all comes together in a highly emotional and moving ending to create what is easily one of the best animated movies of all time.
Few animated films are as consistently beautiful, heartbreaking, and exciting as The Iron Giant, which finds a way to perfectly balance all of these aspects to create a true animated hidden gem. The way that the film blends the classic energy and set pieces of American 50s suburbia with the sci-fi trends of the era paralleling the Red Scare and McCarthyism is masterful in execution. It all comes together in a highly emotional and moving ending to create what is easily one of the best animated movies of all time.