{"id":23604,"date":"2014-04-06T12:40:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T17:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/?p=23604"},"modified":"2014-04-06T12:47:05","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T17:47:05","slug":"iron-sky-directors-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/iron-sky-directors-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron Sky: Director\u2019s Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Iron Sky: Director\u2019s Cut<\/strong><\/em>
\nOkay, now I\u2019m going to have to watch this one. I requested this wacky movie for review last year due to its insane plot: Nazis officers fled to outer space before the fall of the Reich \u2013 only to return with high-tech weaponry after an American astronaut finds their secret moon lair. Yes, it\u2019s a UFO Nazi invasion. The thing is, any movie that gets a director\u2019s cut on Bluray has got to have some merit.<\/p>\n

The movie starts with a pair of astronauts landing on the moon, displaying a presidential campaign banner as well as an American flag. One of the guys is a celebrity that gets captured by the Nazis from the secret moon colony. It’s kind of trippy to see the CGI work and the landscape up there on the moon. The Nazi moon outpost is fairly fantastic. Not insane by today’s standards, but very well done.<\/p>\n

The plot relies on such a bizarre premise that it’s hard to take the movie seriously (and it’s a good guess that the creators did not take themselves or this film too seriously), but it does move along in a narrative and that’s good. The characters are a little caricature-like, which detracts a little from the viewing pleasure, but it seems this movie was aiming for the cult-classic bin right out of the starting gate. I was curious as to how the invasion of earth would play out once the wanna-be Fuhrer sets out to dominate the earth.<\/p>\n

I laughed the hardest when the movie tipped its hat to the Nazi film, Downfall\u00a0<\/em>\u2014 the one we had fun with over on Youtube<\/a> about Adolph Hitler throwing a fit about the band Flatfoot 56 being on the cover of HM Magazine instead of Demon Hunter. In this film a campaign director for the Sarah Palin look-alike president gets really mad at an event, breathes in, calms herself, slowly removes her glasses with a shaking hand of anger, drops her head and quietly orders a bunch of people out of the room. A really funny tribute. Priceless.<\/p>\n

This is crazy sci-fi, but it\u2019s also hilarious\u00a0\u2014 at least in parts \u2014 with witty off-color and non-PC humor. This Director’s Cut features 20 minutes of extra footage and bonus features, including a 90-minute making-of documentary and a photo gallery. [eOne] Doug Van Pelt<\/p>\n

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