Mighty Joe Young is an 1998 adventure movie that was produced by Ted Hartley and Tom Jacobson and was directed by Ron Underwood. "Mighty Joe Young" was released on December 25, 1998 in North America. The movie received mixed reviews with a 54% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It was a remake of the 1949 film, "Mighty Joe Young". The movie turned out to be a box office bomb grossing $50,632,037 with a budget of $90,000,000.