The Iron Giant is one of the best movies ever made. Although it wasn’t seen as being that good of a movie when it was released in 1999, it has won nine Annie awards of 15 nominations. For a movie with a budget of only 50 million, they did a really good job. Directed by Brad Bird and distributed by Warner Bros, it still only made about half of the money that was used to make it. It only made $31.3 million of the $50 million budget. Despite being a kid’s movie, it has several emotional scenes that even made the editing crew cry when reviewing the movie. The movie, which was made to be an act against gun violence, brings an interesting question to the surface, “What if a gun had a soul?” The Iron Giant is based off a book called The Iron Man, no not Marvels Iron Man, but rather the book written by Ted Hughes in 1968. Although the book and the movie differ in many ways, they keep one thing consistent- the Iron Giant is a hero. After crash landing on Earth and suffering from a dent in the side of his head, the Iron Giant befriends a boy named Hogarth, and the owner a junkyard named Dean. Standing at 50 feet tall and weighing 16 million pounds he is a force to be reckoned with, if he wasn’t a pacifist. Through out the movie, the giant acts like a child, learning from Hogarth and trying to understand everything. Despite only speaking 53 words during the entire movie, he made them count.

The Iron Giant was voiced by Vin Diesel, Eli Marienthal voices Hogarth Hughes, and Dean was voiced by Harry Connick Jr. The Iron Giant only failed because of bad marketing. If it weren’t for that maybe it wouldn’t have been a box office flop, and would have hopefully gotten more recognition when it first came out. The team working on The Iron Giant was also working with only $50 million, which sounds like a lot, but not when making a movie.

The movie can be rented on Amazon for $3.99 or purchased for $4.99, or watched on HBO Max. The Iron Giant is a family and kids movie, for both grown ups and children. With a run time of 87 minutes and taking place in 1957 its worth watching for sure. A fun fact about The Iron Giant, the giant himself was CGI while everything else was drawn in 2D. The film’s animators ran a program that added a slight wobble to the lines of the character, making him blend better with his hand drawn surroundings.