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Iron Sky (2012) or, The Moon Nazis Attack!




The packed to the fullest poster for Timo Vuorensola's Iron Sky


The Nazis fled Earth in 1945 to the dark side of the moon, where they have been planning their invasion ever since. In 2018, the American president unknowingly sends a black male model up there, and so the trouble begins ...


Iron Sky is a very original and consistent satirical universe full of fun misunderstandings and cultural entanglements. Well cast and visually a lot more convincing than one might fear, - actually the visual effects are quite impressive for its pedigree: The film is a partly crowd-funded, mainly Finnish sci-fi comedy.
First and foremost, it is the Nazis and the Americans that are ridiculed in Iron Sky, and often very amusingly so, and the keen, underlying barbs towards the Americans are delivered with unmistakably friendly, warm feelings.

There are funny Nazi turns and Julia Dietze and Christopher Kirby quite excellent (and attractive) as the central Nazi/American couple, who find each other on the moon.

Iron Sky is a funny and very unusual science fiction war comedy treat.
Its director Timo Vuorensola (Star Wreck: In the Pirkenning, video (2005)) is now attached to an adventure sci-fi-comedy entitled I Killed Adolf Hitler about time-travelers sent to 1927 to kill Hitler! There has also been heavy talk about an Iron Sky sequel, which seems to have found funding now under the title, The Coming Race.

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Watch the trailer for the movie here

Budget: 10 mil. $
Box office: 8.1 mil. $
= Flop

What do you think of Iron Sky?
Can you name any other similarly crazy science fiction comedies?

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