Sky captain and the world of tomorrow

There's one scene of the various test robots as they evolved over time and one looks exactly like the iron giant. You gotta look fast but I thought that was a nice tie-in that actually made sense for both movies.

I think it took the dude 20 years to get it made?

Never saw it.

JustWatch says it's free on hoopla and you can rent it , or buy it, on a couple of other sites.

The creator, Kerry Conran, makes for a very interesting internet deep info dive. His idea was to make the film without big name stars, for $3 Million, all blue screen-CGI. But once he got backing they insisted on stars, jacking the budget up to $20 Million, which escalated to $70 Million (which his brother and co-creator disputes as Hollywood bookkeeping).

Even with the film losing money, Hollywood saw that all blue screen-CGI could work (this was before Sin City and 300) and Conran was fast-tracked to do John Carter of Mars (he came after Robert Rodriguez dropped out and before Favreau jumped in). He was then put on a couple of other films that never saw the light of day (The Shadow, Doc Savage... he was pigeon-holed as a pulp guy) and then did nothing but a couple of shorts and commercials.

He went from being Hollywood's next big innovator to just living his life as he wanted.

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but the movie was a total disappointment, on par with Valerian in the looks good/is bad category

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Gonna disagree with you here.

Valerian suffered from terrible casting. Dane Dehaan is probably the worst male action hero I've ever seen. He was skinny, flaccid, and effeminate. And unlike Timothy Chalamet in Dune, he lacked the charisma to make it work.