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Review: “Iron Sky” (M) ??? ½

FROM Finland via several other countries including Australia comes this blistering satire on just about everything worth mocking, for which the most apposite collective description is human stupidity.

In 2018, on the dark side of the moon, a community of fugitive Nazis is preparing to conquer Earth and establish the Fourth Reich. The never-named US president (closely resembling Sarah Palin) played by Stephanie Paul, needs a MacGuffin to boost her chance of a second term. Two astronauts land on the moon. Nazi guards shoot one. The other, Washington (Christopher Kirby) is African American.

Col. Adler (Gotz Otto) and Reichsfuhrer Kortzfliesch( Udo Keir) are feuding over which will rule on Earth. Adler fancies schoolteacher Renate (Julia Deitz), but after the mad scientist Richter (Tilo Pruckner) shoots Washington full of albinising serum and Renate finds merit in his new light colour, the pair set out to sabotage the proposed invasion.

Pre-Sputnik, outer-space movies and the “Star Wars” and “Treks” that followed provide a rich compost of derivative sources for “Iron Sky”.

In dissecting and exposing human stupidity at its collective zenith, it never loses sight of its satirical intentions. It’s clever, hilarious, different, outrageous and consequently, cheerfully intelligent. Many films fail to achieve even one of those attributes.

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Dougal Macdonald

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