Still from Iron Sky (2012)

Having recently rewatched this movie with a group of friends who had never seen it before, and who knew next to nothing besides the plot synopsis on Amazon, I can say without a shadow of a doubt that it is worth a watch.

I had not seen it in quite sometime, but within mere moments of the opening of the movie, my memory had been jogged and everything I remembered starting coming back to me. That being said, this is obviously not a movie for everyone. Honestly, I really do not know who exactly this movie was made for or if there was even a target audience in mind when it was being made, but if you can just shut your brain off for its short hour and a half runtime it is not hard to find some form of enjoyment from this film. Whether it be the wildly quotable one-liners, to the cheesy characters, or to the surprisingly good-looking special effects during the climatic space battle, there are a lot of things that somehow manage to work in this movie when in reality, nothing should.

Gif from Iron Sky (2012)

Gif From Iron Sky (2012)

With Iron Sky, there are actually quite a lot of positives to look at. The filmmakers clearly knew that their idea for a movie was batshit crazy and used that to their advantage in making the finished product feel like a modern-day B-Movie. This adds to the fun, with the whole concept of Moon Nazis already being a wild idea, they continue to escalate the craziness throughout the movie whether it be America basically becoming the new Nazi regime or the sequence of the “Meteorblitzkreig”, in which the Nazi’s hurl meteors into Earth’s major cities.

Trailer for The Death of Stalin (2018)

Comparing Iron Sky to another political satire such as The Death of Stalin, this movie would fall short in almost every way. In this film’s case that does not mean it is bad, rather The Death of Stalin is just a really fucking great movie that works on every level. The other big thing that this movie has going for it is that it is wholly unique in both its story and content. Iron Sky feels like a vastly different movie than anything I have ever experienced.

As for the political aspects of this movie, it is actually pretty crazy to see how this movie came out in 2012 and had the President of the United States fall in line and actively use/promote Nazi propaganda, and get re-elected doing so. As mentioned in the opening of this piece, this movie takes place in 2018, and while Sarah Pailin has never been and still is not the President, one could easily draw some comparisons in how the ideals of white supremacy and Nazi propaganda align with the current POTUS. The gif below is from the scene in which two representatives from the 4th Reich arrive to the White House to give a speech to the President, and then her subsequently using the speech to get herself reelected. Watching it now gives the content of this scene (and the overall narrative) more of an impact than what was initially intended due to the political climate of the world currently.