Our video store is closing! Disaster! Anxiety! But wait…we have Netflix. True, we never can get reasonable first run movies…but it's cheap! When we discovered the closing, we went in to purchase a few of the remaining DVDs, of which there were only a few. We'd missed the rush for all the up-to-date good stuff. However, we scored a sleeper: Iron Sky. This is a space spoof, plus a wickedly funny political satire about current US politics! Made by Finns, in cooperation with Germany and Australia, it features nobody you've ever heard of, having a wonderful time camping it up as German Nazis, who've been hiding on the dark side of the moon since 1945, mining Helium 3, which powers their space crafts. They are planning an earth invasion anytime soon. Everything they have is up-to-date 1945 clunky Nazi design. Their one computer is as big as an apartment block, but has less computing power than an iPhone. (They plan a mission to earth to get more iPhones and a charger so they can work their computer!
The head Nazi is big and beautiful and Aryan; the head maidchen is small and blond and very cute, whose stocking seams are always straight! They are the projected parents of the next generation of Aryan perfect children.
Meanwhile, on earth, there is a Presidential election going on. The current president, a gum chewing woman who seems to spend all her time in workout clothes working out on a StairMaster, is desperate for an Issue to thump to get her elected. Her chief of staff is a witchy, hot and bitchy woman, who appears to be unscrupulous as as she needs to be to get things done.
Some examples of guffaw lines: the President, accused at the UN of lying, says: "Knock it off…that's what we do!" Upon being warned of the impending Nazi space invasion, she is overjoyed! "Oh, boy! A war! Just what I need to get re-elected. No one defeats a war President in the middle of a war! And this against a really tough enemy! We haven't won a war since WW2 - we NEED this war!"
When the Pres meets the head Nazi, they get along fine! She listens to his Nazi "master race" line, and with very little polishing, it shows up in her Republican acceptance speech as good Republican policy!
By the way, the US's biggest space ship is the "George W. Bush"! And it goes on…At times, the camp is a bit heavy, but as long as you keep "Spoof" nearby in your brain, you can see the point. I can't imagine this being released anywhere in the US, but it's a great chuckle at the Americans expense.
I have no idea where you can get it, but look in the dark corners of your local video store, should you have one. It's worth the 92 minutes it takes to resolve the plot and have the good guys win.
The head Nazi is big and beautiful and Aryan; the head maidchen is small and blond and very cute, whose stocking seams are always straight! They are the projected parents of the next generation of Aryan perfect children.
Meanwhile, on earth, there is a Presidential election going on. The current president, a gum chewing woman who seems to spend all her time in workout clothes working out on a StairMaster, is desperate for an Issue to thump to get her elected. Her chief of staff is a witchy, hot and bitchy woman, who appears to be unscrupulous as as she needs to be to get things done.
Some examples of guffaw lines: the President, accused at the UN of lying, says: "Knock it off…that's what we do!" Upon being warned of the impending Nazi space invasion, she is overjoyed! "Oh, boy! A war! Just what I need to get re-elected. No one defeats a war President in the middle of a war! And this against a really tough enemy! We haven't won a war since WW2 - we NEED this war!"
When the Pres meets the head Nazi, they get along fine! She listens to his Nazi "master race" line, and with very little polishing, it shows up in her Republican acceptance speech as good Republican policy!
By the way, the US's biggest space ship is the "George W. Bush"! And it goes on…At times, the camp is a bit heavy, but as long as you keep "Spoof" nearby in your brain, you can see the point. I can't imagine this being released anywhere in the US, but it's a great chuckle at the Americans expense.
I have no idea where you can get it, but look in the dark corners of your local video store, should you have one. It's worth the 92 minutes it takes to resolve the plot and have the good guys win.
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