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, it’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 there’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. It’s scattershot is what I’m saying.
It looks cool and I enjoyed it.

Watch This: For Moon Nazi action
Don’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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