the directors cut is what this movie should have been all along
It feels like a trash movie, but it is basically a parody of our politics. This movie has a great meaning.
not a comedy. not a sci-fi... i should have learned with starship troopers that silly sci-fi sub-genre is not for me... 4/10.
It wasn't my type of humor, but it's simply incredible what they've done with this very little budet.
Watch out Michael Bay here comes inexpensive Finnland ;)
@dunpealhunter: you might never gonna read this, but I gotta say I really <3 your reviews.
Really nice to see through to the end, didn't expect much but was surprised.
I think this is a very underrated movie.It's really funny and has pretty impresive effects,considering it was financed by crowdfunding.And I love Renate...
I already had high expectations, but they were massively exceeded.
This is not a trash movie, it's a high value production.
The plot is ridiculous, yes, but very well written, fast-paced and incredibly funny. A true defining movie for the internet generation.
But please don't believe me - go watch it yourself. These guys deserve your money.
Very funny movie, full of satire and sour humor. It doesn't have great special effects, but if you're bored this movie is worth a look.
worst movie i have seen so far!
This a first class B-Movie. It's bad, it's good, the premise is unique and it's just plain old fun to watch.
For the unaware, here's the jist: in the twilight of WW2, the tattered remnants of the Nazi party escaped to the dark side of the moon, where they've been building spacecraft and plotting their revenge ever since. It's obviously intended as a blunt parody, but lord is it ham-fisted and dim-witted. Loaded with bland, easy puns and flat punchlines, it's satire in the same vein as Meet the Spartans.
The film is set in the year 2018, so naturally the president is played by a porn-grade Sarah Palin impersonator. After reaching office on the back of a "Yes She Can" campaign, her big re-election effort involves sending a new mission to the moon, with a black captain, which is publicized as "Black to the Moon!" These are the big-laugh moments.
Amidst such broad strokes, a few good bits do manage to slip in (there's something about a space zeppelin that's oddly hilarious), but they're like tiny dots of light lost amidst the hustle of a smeared canvas. I may have cracked a smile once or twice, but I groaned more times than I could count, and when it was all over I felt like apologizing to myself. There's a place for this brand of comedy in the world, I guess, but it's not with me.
It's been a while since I saw the theatrical release but after watching the Director's Cut I feel like having watched a different movie altogether. I would definately recommend watching that version. Has a more serious side to it beside all the comedy which doesn't always hit home.
Nazis esperando el momento de su venganza en el lado oscuro de la Luna es una grandiosa idea... pero la ejecución de la película es tonta y ridícula.
I tried very hard to make it through the first 2 minutes. I failed. I knew it would be low budget and expected it to look cheap, but I could have asked my dog to draw something and it would have looked better.
Fair, not as good as it could be.
A friend told me about the movie a few weeks ago. Now its my favorite movie of all time !!
On average, suits me so absurd, but there were moments in which a great time. Some oversimplifications - brilliant in its simplicity.
BullShittttttttttttttttttttttttttttt. 4/10.Exactly leeway.You must not watch :P
Fantastic visually, horrible (even if intentionally bad) narratively. This really disappoints me because has great ideas and special effects but screenwriters were obviously drunk and high...
Such wasted potential. The beginning and end of this film have the makings of a fantastically terrible movie, but like so many similar cheesy films it falls apart in the middle, becoming just another bad movie. I think the problem is, many of the creators of these types of films come up with a awesome & ridiculous premise and a foolish ending, but forget that there needs to be a movie in-between those ideas.
There's a lot of stuff copied from other films here, others have mentioned some of them, and I'm okay with that. I don't really think those things serve any sort of higher purpose, or homage if you will, but from my point of view they work because they make the movie intentionally bad. The Sarah Palin parody doesn't work at all, it's just unfunny & lazy, and I'm not saying that for political reasons... I'm Canadian and Palin & her tea party cohorts are certifiably nuts. However, these jokes about Palin, her style of politics, her stupidity, and American stereotypes have all been made before in smarter and more humorous ways.
One point that's especially worth praising is the special effects. This has to be one of the nicest looking space battle scenes in a movie of this type (cheesy b-movie), that I've ever scene.
I must say, this was a better movie then I expected. The Palin puns were great! <3
Great satire! The Sarah Palin parts could've been better but the world leaders part was very funny. North Korea made my day.
@ketu - ah, a link to Shortbus on that flickr. Check out the shouts for Pixar's Up. Apparently one shouldn't be mentioned in the presence of the other :) Dunpealhunter makes an appearance too.
[read bottom up obviously]
Not a great movie, but original concept. Loved the ending.
@dunpealhunter: nice =) well: http://www.flickr.com/photos/swatchonphotos/7337829612/in/photostream
@dunpealhunter I agree with @ketu ;)
@TRAKT.TV Please give us a user-messaging system (already) soon - Thanks!!!
Thanks! I do my best to offer the trakt community good reviews of movies and tv shows worth seeing. :)
Not the best acting and the soundtrack is TV style awful. The only thing that makes is bearable is the CGI and the ending.
If anyone noticed, there a bit of a parody from a famous internet clip.
BTTH!
Sarah Palin + a white black dude = WIN
What more can I say. lol
Maybe my expectations were too high, but i just wasn't that impressed as i thought i would have been. Don't get me wrong, on my list of achievements for an awesome kickass movie they hit a lot of points, but i kept feeling that something was missing. Maybe a bigger budget? More well known actors?
I recognized some of the references to other movies and American culture, for instance that piece where the Nazi's enter the giant spacecraft is a copy from the 1984 Apple ad for the Macintosh. Also when the PR-lady takes of her glasses with shaking hands and demands that everyone except a few people leave the room and than goes on a rage rampage was directly taken from the movie Downfall (2004) but maybe some people know it better from the internet meme where Hitler gets angry about computergames, investments, Obama, Twitter and Facebook and other stuff. That scene in Iron Sky was pretty damn funny!
At other times the humor was a bit too cheesy for my taste, for instance the fact that the Secretary of Defense so casually hands over the (space)defense of the USA to the PR-lady who has absolutely no experience in the matter and everybody seems just fine with that seems a little out of place. Not to mention the suit she was wearing on the spaceship.
The last part and ending was absolutely brilliant, they really went all out on the CGI budget. Its really amazing what they managed to do with the budget they had. I liked the part where every major country with nuclear weapons suddenly turned on each other and launched their entire nuclear arsenal for the Helium-3 deposits the Nazi's mined over the years. A movie without a happy ending, you don't see that so often.
BTW: did anyone watched the credits too? Completely on the end we see the planet Mars and what looks like to be a satellite. What was the purpose of putting that into the movie? Could it be hint to a yet to be announced sequel to Iron Sky? I hope so, but i guess we will know soon enough....
nice ending. don't u think so? =)
AWESOMENESS!!!!
Thats all i can say
Effects are absolutely on top. But who wrote that script? Some dialogs seem ripped from a kind of worlds most humorless comedy show. Great potential but the realization is a total mess.
Wasn't perfect but still I'm amazed how little it fell behind from my huge unrealistic expectations. What a step from their previous movie Star Wreck.
I was all the time thinking what an amazing job a bunch of guys from my hometown did with the effects and with that budget. Torssonen is the next king of special effects. Wait till he gets a big budget!
As you can see I was a bit too excited to finally see the movie to form an objective opinion. I think I need to see it a couple more times for that... :)
This movie is created with a 7,5 M. € Budget? Wow. I can definitely recommend this, but dont expect a 10/10 Movie.
No. Unfortunately it seems that Iron Sky will probably be a direct-to DVD and Blue-Ray release in the Netherlands (as one of the few countries, most of the other countries will have a theatrical release). In my opinion that is a real shame and a missed opportunity.
The only way that that won't happen is if you guys in other countries all go to the cinema and make this the must-see blockbuster of this summer! Hopefully that will spark the interest of some of the cinema companies here and release it on the big screen after all.
If that doesn't happen i might consider going to the United Kingdom just to see this movie!
Already have tickets for April 6th. Can't wait, especially since most of the reviews have been good.
Yes, this will be the greatest movie of our generation. Sneak peek viewers agree.. it's amazing.
I just saw the trailer of this movie, holy crap that looks good! I am seriously getting excited to see this movie on the big screen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Py_IndUbcxc
@dunpealhunter yap totally.
Another example "Moon" 2009
(low)budget: $5.0 Million and it is awesome!
I've heard about this movie. Apparently everyone on the internet could have pitched their idea's about what should get included into the movie.
I am interested what the end result will be. Even though they have a small budget (9.6 million dollars) you could do great things with kind of money. Especially with the collective mind of the internet. Just look what the movie Cargo (2009) did on special effects with a budget of only 5.8 million dollars.
Will be the best of 2012.
Shout by acidfreecookiesBlockedParent2014-10-23T18:38:28Z
It's shocking how much I enjoyed this movie, considering its glaring flaws.