Nowadays, superhero movies are more common than most other Hollywood blockbusters. That wasn’t the case in 1999.
Back then, not only were comic book films still few and far between but good ones were even rarer and more difficult to find. A lot has, of course, changed since then. Entire superhero-driven cinematic universes have been born, taken over Hollywood, and — in the case of Warner Bros.’ DC Extended Universe — even been put out to pasture. What hasn’t changed, however, is The Iron Giant ‘s status as one of the best superhero movies that Hollywood has ever produced.
Recommended Videos That is due, partly at least, to not only how well The Iron Giant tells its Cold War-era comic book plot but also how beautifully it depicts and explores the enduring, childlike appeal of superhero stories. It’s a film that understands exactly why figures like Superman and Spider-Man have held a place in our collective public consciousness for so long.
For a few minutes in its third act, it looks like The Iron Giant is going to embrace that trope, too. After the film’s titular, gigantic metallic being becomes briefly convinced that his young, human friend, Hogarth Hughes , has been killed as part of an unmotivated attack by the U.S. Army, he transforms into an apocalyptic war machine capable of leveling every threat that comes his way.
“Superman,” the Giant says to himself just before crashing into Mansley’s nuke and forcing it to detonate in space — a safe distance away from Hogarth and his fellow citizens of Rockwell, Maine. The Giant, in other words, sacrifices himself in order to save a human world that has been driven to near madness by the Cold War from lighting itself on fire. He becomes, in his own way, Superman.
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