They Call Me Jeeg Robot
- IMDb link: 3775086
- IMDb rating: 7 (17,520 votes)
- Genres: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Drama
- Director: Gabriele Mainetti
- Cast: Claudio Santamaria, Ilenia Pastorelli, Luca Marinelli, Stefano Ambrogi and others
- Release date: 25 Feb 2016
- Release year: 2015
- Runtime: 112 minutes
- Country: Italy
- Keywords: radioactive waste, reference to steel jeeg, super villain, superhero, non comic book superhero, sociopathic man, schizophrenic woman, narcissistic man, female nudity, female topless nudity
Plot:
The film is a strange, anti-hero transposition of a very popular animated manga cartoon in the 1980s called Steel Jeeg. Here, young outlaw Enzo is somehow affected by radioactive waste in the Tiber waters in Rome. He subsequently finds out he has gained super powers and interprets them as a reward for never having managed to enter the criminal world significantly. The inside joke reveals itself when Enzo meets Alessia, who believes the charming hero is the personification of the hero in the cartoon she used to watch.