2012 · action · comedy · sci-fi
Iron Sky
Directed by Timo Vuorensola1h 33m2012
In the last moments of World War II, a secret Nazi space program evaded destruction by fleeing to the Dark Side of the Moon. During 70 years of utter secrecy, the Nazis construct a gigantic space fortress with a massive armada of flying saucers.
Our read: Iron Sky (2012) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive action · comedy · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme action / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- epic-stakes
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How Iron Sky feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want absurd Nazi-on-the-moon B-movie satire that never takes itself seriously.”
Skip it tonight — Campy sci-fi and swastika jokes sound exhausting rather than funny tonight.
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