A review by dark_reader
The Iron Giant by Ted Hughes

1.0

Love the movie; it is one of my all-time favorite films. Did not love the original story. Despite the glowing praise from well-known literary figures on the book jacket, I did not find this appealing in the least. The story is dully written; I read it aloud to my boy and found the whole thing to be a drag, starting from the outset and the protracted boring sequence of the titular giant finding his body parts. Then a significantly bigger creature comes to earth and the iron giant taunts it and tricks it into leaving. Even the art in this modern edition falls flat; it has no appeal to children, in my judgment.

None of the charm, heart, and brilliance of Brad Bird's animated film adaptation is to be found in the original story, from which the film is only extremely loosely based.

Skip it.