Few lists of the best animated movies of all time would be complete without 1999’s Iron Giant. The Warner Bros feature, which marked the directorial debut of Brad Bird, was based on Ted Hughes’s 1968 novel The Iron Man and tells the story of a young boy named Hogarth Hughes. Hogarth, who is growing up in the height of the Cold War, finds and befriends a giant mechanical robot who fell to earth from outer space. The US military, suspecting the robot to be of Russian origin, set out to destroy him, with only Hogarth and a beatnik artist named Kent Mansley standing in their way.
Featuring the voices of Vin Diesel (as the Iron Giant), Eli Marienthal, Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr., Christopher McDonald and John Mahoney, the film had all the making of an instant classic and no shortage of hype surrounding its release. The box office numbers proved otherwise, however. On a staggering budget of $70-80 million, the film only managed to gross $20 million in the US and $31 million worldwide, making it a huge flop for Warner Bros.
Audiences, however, didn’t turn their attention away from the film outright. Although its initial release attracted few to the cinema, critics praised the film’s innovative mix of computer and traditional animation, not to mention its captivating storyline. Slowly but surely audiences sought out the film and it developed a cult following, eventually leading to a 2015 remastered theatrical re-release.
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