The Iron Giant 1999 - Patreon Requested Movie Review! #531

Pappy, Brett, Josh, and $ Mikey review the Brad Bird animated classic: The Iron Giant!

In this animated adaptation of Ted Hughes' Cold War fable, a giant alien robot (Vin Diesel) crash-lands near the small town of Rockwell, Maine, in 1957. Exploring the area, a local 9-year-old boy, Hogarth, discovers the robot, and soon forms an unlikely friendship with him. When a paranoid government agent, Kent Mansley, becomes determined to destroy the robot, Hogarth and beatnik Dean McCoppin (Harry Connick Jr.) must do what they can to save the misunderstood machine.

Release date: July 31, 1999 (USA)

Director: Brad Bird

Adapted from: The Iron Man

Story by: Brad Bird, Ted Hughes

Production companies: Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Animation, Warner Brothers

Distributed by: Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Pictures