Iron Sky: The Coming Race

MOVIE #1,109 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.15.23 The crowdfunded direct sequel to Iron Sky, Iron Sky: The Coming Race came out seven years later and despite featuring Udo Kier as Vril Adolph Hitler, it is easily the lesser effort. Also, somehow, despite being crowdfunded, it led to the bankruptcy of the Iron Sky Universe production company. I love the hubris that is attempting to turn this bonkers idea into a Marvel-like cinematic universe and I also love that it’s completely imploded (but again: The Ark: An Iron Sky Story is apparently real so what is dead never truly dies?). The main issue of this one is that is simply not funny at all. And that’s a humongous problem when your movie is so clearly geared to function in that vein.

The legend Udo K. — reprising his role from the original in addition to playing the reptilian Hitler (this is loosely based on the Vril novel and ensuing conspiracy theories which is a whole ‘nother can of worms) — has a ton more to do here which is one of the only things going for it. The only other real positive is that the action is ramped up to the nth degree, so you get stuff like Vril Osama bin Laden and Vril Pope Urban II riding a wagon-pulling Triceratops off a cliff into a pit of lava and the aforementioned T-Rex/Hitler combo getting karate kicked to death by a blonde lady…



Even though they had a half decade to make this one, the writing is far more shoddy in every single way and there’s no bigger example than the Tom Green subplot.


On the remnants of the partially destroyed Nazi Moonbase in 2049 (after nuclear war ruined the earth at the end of the first one — sorry, forgot to mention that detail), he leads a cult called the Jobsists formed around the teachings of Steve Jobs. It’s like “remember the interesting stuff we did with Apple/iPhones in the original movie? Well here’s some more 'satire’ on that only it doesn’t make any sense and isn’t funny.” It’s a shame too because I was excited to see that Green was in this. But it just doesn’t work at all.

Anyway, those are the two Iron Sky movies. The pride of Finland! I need to go take a shower.

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Iron Sky: The Coming Race is a 2019 Finnish-German comic science fiction action film directed by Timo Vuorensola. The sequel to Vuorensola's 2012 film Iron Sky, its production was crowdfunded through Indiegogo. Like its predecessor, the film mixes political themes with repeated allusions to the popular culture and various conspiracy theories, but is generally more action-adventure oriented. A major inspiration of the content (and title) is the Vril conspiracy theory. It was released on January 16, 2019.