I Watch Films: Iron Sky

Difficult to believe back in (checks date) 2012 they would imagine a US President seeking re-election would use Nazi messages and imagery shorn of the racism and militarism.

Anyway, itā€™s a (mostly) comedy action film about Nazis on the moon. Everything is fine until the US President, seeking re-election, sends a mission to the moon; one of the two crewmen is a clumsy black actor. The Nazis capture him, get a very strange idea of what Earth is like, and turn him white*. Also they need the processing power of his i-phone to run their super weapon.

Eventually thereā€™s fights, explosions and space battles. The comedy is kind of broad, they sometimes play the Nazis as serious, sometimes as dupes, mostly as comedy. Itā€™s scattershot is what Iā€™m saying.
It looks cool and I enjoyed it.

Watch This: For Moon Nazi action
Donā€™t Watch This: If you want space travel or Nazis taken seriously.

* Pretty sure that there was a Lenny Henry film with this plot during his brief attempt to crack America. (Apparently True Identity)

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