For
seventy years, the Nazis have been hiding out on the dark side of the moon
waiting for a second chance to take over the world. At last, they come down to Earth and make
their play for world domination. Finally
realizing the Nazis are up to no good, Renate (Julia Dietze) leaves their ranks,
and with the help of an American astronaut (Christopher Kirby), she tries to
put a stop to the Fourth Reich.
Iron
Sky offers a fun blend of faux-Grindhouse lunacy with genuinely funny comedy
and a handful of legitimately badass moments.
The premise is outlandish, but is enormously entertaining thanks to the
game cast, cool special effects, and often pitch-perfect tone. Not content on just making a silly little B
picture, director Timo Vuorensola (who got his start making impressive homemade
Star Trek fan films), cannily puts a little social commentary into the mix (like
the scenes of The White House embracing Nazism), which keeps it from becoming yet
another disposable would-be cult item.
That’s
not to say the film doesn’t know how to cut loose and have fun. The scenes of Kirby being subjected to
Aryanization is handled with equal parts satire and out-and-out hilarity. Plus, it’s hard to resist any movie in which Udo
Kier plays a Nazi. Of course, a flick
with this kind of wild imagination is sure to be uneven as hell. However, its spunky spirit carries it over the
clunkier parts, and the final act is a blast.
The fact that all this was created from an online crowdsourcing effort adds
to its scrappy charm.
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