Iron Sky

MOVIE #1,108 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.15.23 “August Sky” month continues here on TWO FOR TUESDAYS as I reviewed BOTH of the Finnish "nazis in space" sci-fi comedies that make up the Iron Sky franchise. These movies are A LOT. But that is by design. You don’t put Hitler riding a T-Rex on the moon by accident. But I’m getting ahead of myself. These two B-movie-ass-looking are somehow Finland’s most expensive films ever made, which somehow just adds to the hilarity of the whole endeavor. I definitely liked the original one more so let’s start there. It’s all the way in the distant future (2018) and the Nazis, having secretly escaped earth at the end of WWII, have set up shop on the darkside of the moon. A Sarah Palin-like American President is vying for reelection and so she sends an African-American model on a “BLACK to the MOON” promotional gimmick.

There is satire and then there is this: something so goofy and overt that it nearly renders any/all commentary moot. But I did find the humor in this amusing to a degree. This was a nice Dr. Strangelove homage? Sure…



I mean, it’s a little different because it features a Black man who has been cosmetically turned white against his will and now looks like nearly identical to that Wayan Brothers movie…


The plotline surrounding the idea that the Moon Nazis’ discovery of this guy’s iPhone and its computing power allowing them to complete their ultimate War Machine weapon is legitimately good satire. (Although the subsequent continuation of this thread in The Coming Race is one of that movie’s worst ideas, and it’s a real race to the bottom there.)

Look, I hesitate to say too much about either of these. I feel like just knowing the baseline plot is enough for anyone to decide whether or not they want to take the plunge into the Iron Sky Universe (apparently a third installment — featuring Andy Garcia (?!) — is coming out soon?) or not. Who knows. Look, I could appreciate both the humor (to a degree, not everything hits for sure), and the aesthetic (which is very bad! but bad in a way that I liked) but maybe I’m just a freak.

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Iron Sky is a 2012 comic-science-fiction action film directed by Timo Vuorensola and written by Johanna Sinisalo and Michael Kalesniko. It tells the story of a group of Nazi Germans who, having been defeated in 1945, fled to the Moon, where they built a space fleet to return in 2018 and conquer Earth. Iron Sky is one of the most expensive Finnish films. It was released on February 11, 2012.