Iron Sky = free lobotomy with every viewing

Have you ever watched a trailer and thought "that looks so bad it's probably going to be good?". Well in this case that statement did not apply.

Rating 1 out of 5

The movie starts with a couple of astronauts landing on the moon and coming across a hidden Nazi base on the dark side. A Sarah Palin like US president is running a re-election campaign and decides that sending astronauts ( one being a black model - that's right a model. Quote " can't you see I'm pretty") to the moon would increase her popularity.

The expedition team run in to Nazis who had migrated to and colonized the "dark side of the moon" in 1940 to live out the orders of hitler. To return to Earth in the future to bring peace and perfection to earthlings, or so some of the naive Nazis thought.

A few of the many questions we thought of throughout the movie are; how are they surviving on the dark side of the moon without being detected, wheres food coming from, where is the air being generated from, how did they get so much metal to create their buildings/ ships/ mining and storage equipment.. etc.

The movie is full of interesting tidbits of BS, like the Albinoiser, turning the black model white "as a snowflake". The whole pretense of Nazis living on the moon and incorporating an iPhone into their largest ship and be able to use its processing power to start up and run the ship.

The only factor of the movie making it watchable is the comedy and the fact that it is so bad it is hilarious. Though I guess that was the goal of the filmmakers.

A few more recent topics were touched on; The UN treaty of not militarizing space was made fun of with all countries, except Finland, arming their space stations. The Russian MIR, one that should have been destroyed, makes an appearance and it had pretty nice weapons. North Korea attempted to take credit for the military base on the moon, an obvious jibe. Incorporating some internet memes, such as hitlers downfall, blowing up part of the moon to get a clear shot at the Earth and the ridiculous things the PR manager comes up with are just a few hilarious things that cropped up.

Definately an onion movie! Good for a temporary lobotomy. Not a movie I would see again but I can see it becoming a cult classic. Not as memorable as Spaceballs but I haven't seen that movie in a long time :).

Achtung! Do not drive after viewing, may experience temporary brain and sensor impairment.

Nazis on the Moon!

Also does anyone else think that halfway through the movie the main female German starts looking heaps like Shakira?

Watched: 11th May 2012