Iron Sky [Blu-ray]

Okay, let's get the obvious out of the way. In 1945 the Nazis could not have even gotten one person into orbit much less colonized the moon. and the technology in the movie would not have worked. Little in this movie is reality based. That said, this was a fun movie to watch even though it dealt with some serious issues. The movie revolves around the good-hearted Nazi Renate who believes Hitler was trying to bring peace and love to the World. She is also the Nazi's Earth expert although she knows very little about Earth...especially several decades after WWII. She eventually comes to see Hitler and the Nazis as they actually were when she finally visits Earth. It is hard to review this movie without spoilers. Suffice it to say that the comedy is dead pan--not done as well as Monty Python but how many have managed that? Politics, power, greed, corruption, nukes and racism are all slammed in a comedic manner. Let's just say that the movie goes out with a big bang(s).

Despite the B-movie trope of having Nazis attacking from the dark side of the moon, this film has A-list special effects, great acting [exploiting humor by playing it straight], and a fun, satirical script. In 2017, America sends a return mission to the moon, this time with an African-American model/astronaut James Washington [Christopher Kirby] in the crew, to improve the re-election chances of a Palinesque president [Stephanie Paul]. Julia Dietze is the naive Nazi schoolmarm Renate Richter teaching the newest generation English and Earth culture. She is called upon to apply her knowledge [or lack thereof] when Washington is captured. Reacting to him being African-American, her mad scientist father uses an albino-nizer to turn Washington Aryan and uses his cell phone to power the giant space battleship Gotterdamerung. Unfortunately, the cell phone's battery is low, so Renate's party-chosen fiance and fuhrer-in-waiting Klaus Adler [Goetz Otto] must go to Earth to obtain more modern computer phones to ;power an all-out invasion of the Earth. Washington is brought along because he "knows the President" and Renate stows aboard to see real Earth culture. Renate and Klaus hook up with the President's campaign manager [Peta Sergeant] after kidnapping her, She succeeds in designing the re-election campaign around their proposed New Order. Renate finally learns what Nazis are "really" like when Washington takes her to see the full-length GREAT DICTATOR containing more than just Charlie Chaplin playing with the balloon-globe. The current Fuhrer of the Moon [the iconic Udo Kier] visits Earth and is killed in a coup. New Fuhrer Adler returns to the moon to activate the Gotterdamerung while the Earth is already being attacked by Nazi flying saucers launched from Hindenburg-style carriers towing meteors with which to bombard the Earth. Renate and Washington return to the moon in the saucer that brought them to sabotage Gotterdamerung while weaponized Mars-explorer crafts from many nations [except Finland] defend our planet from the Nazi onslaught. I added Netflix streaming just to watch IRON SKY: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT [with 20 extra minutes]. Watch for IRON SKY: THE COMING RACE in 2016 to see how the President survives, descends into a Hollow Earth to find more [T-rex riding] Nazis. I hope that IRON SKY is planned as a trilogy.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) and Star Wars (1977) plus a dash of Sucker Punch (2011) form this genre-crossing mash-up of space Nazis invading the Earth. This may sound like a dumb B-movie, but it’s more like a B+ movie… on steroids.. Trust me, it’s fun.In this zany straight-to-DVD movie important questions are answered like “If we elect Sarah Palin into office will God smite us with space Nazis?” and “Can thousands of Nazis find sufficient resources on the moon to survive for 73 years?” This film also confirms conspiracy theorists’ notions that a cadre of Nazis did, in fact, escape to the moon in 1945, brought a tremendous amount of machinery to mine elemental resources, built space artillery and warships with room-sized computers that rival the 1970s in order to propagate an army to return to Earth and reclaim the world in the name of the Fuhrer.Well, that’s evidently exactly what Nazis did in this story. They fled, somehow completely unnoticed, to the dark side of the moon where they developed weapons of mass destruction. But things get interesting when a lost—yes, “lost” on the moon—American astronaut James Washington (Christopher Kirby; Daybreakers, Predestination, The Matrix: Reloaded & Revolutions) is captured in the year 2018. He’s black, which really perturbs the Nazis.But they get over it when they discover that his cell phone evidently has 1000-times the computing power of all the Nazis’ computers combined. The real catch here, and the writers obviously saw how farcical this was, is that the Nazi “Death Star” wasn’t able to fly until they hooked up their ship’s computer main frame to a SmartPhone—which naturally he had on him… during a space mission… while moonwalking! You know, in case he wants to post a selfie in front of the Earth to Facebook.So now the Nazis initiate a mission to send their spies to Earth to gather the additional SmartPhones they’ll need to launch a full assault on Earth. Renate (Julia Dietze) is a school teacher molding young space-Nazi minds and the resident expert on all things American and Earthling. She joins her future husband and Fuhrer-to-be Klaus Adler (Götz Otto; Cloud Atlas) on a mission to Earth with the now-Nazified-made-Caucasian Washington who will take them to his leader: President Palin. This is somewhat offensive, very funny and incredibly stupid. But hold on, it’s actually surprisingly well-acted! And, despite the nature of the content, it’s well-written and generally composed on-screen as well!The physical action is a bit hokey-clumsy and the CGI, which accounts for almost all unearthly sets, spaceships and backgrounds, may be well-shy of theatrical quality but remains quite impressive for direct-to-DVD—it’s more than good-enough and I enjoyed it a lot. I loved the Nazi Moonbase, by the way. So cool!Director Timo Vuorensola has developed a zany idea into something so much more than its silly premise. Plus we have cult horror icon Udo Kier (Mother of Tears, Halloween, Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich) as the Moon Fuhrer.The lunacy continues to mount as the American President teams up with the Nazis, promotes her leather corseted and cleavage-baring PR girl (Peta Sergeant; The Originals) to space warship commander on a whim, someone gets killed with a high heel, spaceships are modeled after Zeppelins, and Renate actually Zeig Heils someone to death.If you’re the kind of person who giggles at the idea of a movie about space Nazis attacking present-day Earth, then this movie is clearly for you.

It all began with stumbling upon a trailer on social media. After that, I was unable to resist a compulsion to buy the DVD and I wasn't disappointed. The movie takes all the conspiracy theories about the Nazis, the dark side of the moon, UFO's, moonbases and mining and puts them together for a fun movie.The President of the United States of the Americas looks not unlike Sarah Palin. She's guided by a campaign manager who does a great spoof of the Hitler rant scene in the movie Downfall. There are a number of other allusions to other Sci-Fi movies such as Independence Day, Star Trek, Armageddon and even Planet of the Apes. A space force is assembled to fight the Nazi invasion, led by the USS George W. Bush which is commanded by a sadistic, black leather-wearing dominatrix who is somewhat surprised to learn that Australia has a space force. The Russian space station MIR turns up for the fight, which prompts the President to say, " I thought we destroyed that!"It's amazing to see the lengths that the steampunk moon Nazis will go to to obtain a smartphone and an ipad. Without them, they can't launch their largest warship - The Gottdammerung, designed and built by a mad Nazi scientist who claims to have invented the Universal Systematic Binding cable.The movie plot also includes a vicious power struggle between the Moon Fuhrer who goes into anaphylactic shock every time he eats something and his deputy, Klaus Adler. Also involved is Renate Richter who's employed briefly as the President's speech-writer after the camapign manager brings her and Adler into the White House.If you're a fan of classical music, there's something there for you, particularly Richard Wagner's Der Tannhauser overture.Altogether, a good movie.

This film is so boring I have forgotten what the plot was, after only 3 days have passed since attempting to watch it. I managed to watch foe about 30 minutes and then began to advance through the rest of the disk only to find that it was boring all the way through. I haven't quite thrown it in the bin yet but I doubt that it will see 2022.

A Rollicking fun film. Stupid Yes! Ludicrous Undoubtedly but never the less very entertaining. If you found Mars Attacks fun you'll like this, if Dead Snow amused you you'll laugh out loud at this. Never mined it blatantly rewrites history brakes the basic laws of physics, is politically incorrect and pokes fun at the Germans, and the Americans, and just about everyone else and the story line is preposterous. It's just fun on so many other levels. Much in the same vain as early Woody Alan, though I didn't much care for him. Or maybe even Mel Brooks. You know how people quote Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy and Monty Python well geeks who've seen this are adding quotes from this to their repertoire now A sign of cult status.

Utter Genius. "Dictator's Cut" adds a great deal, and the making-of is well worth a watch. The film references Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" very heavily, for those who may be confused about where it's actually coming from. Remarkable blend of in-your-face (A lunar city shaped like a swastika, albinizer) and quite subtle (reference to bombing women and children, hope amongst the rubble and ruins) motifs. More layers than initial impressions suggest, and surely worthy of more than one viewing. And a nicely ironic ending, a resource war that results in ... ah, spoilers.

I saw this other night and enjoyed it. Although as I expected its not a laugh out loud comedy but has enough laughs to entertain.The film has social commentary - and true at that with comments about the US president being popular because of going into wars and a Sarah Palin lookalike as the President whose character is still dumb as the real woman!Udo Keir speaks all his lines in German and the film in general is a madcap story of Nazis on the dark side ot the Moon and yep world domination time again!Overall a lot of fun