Review – Iron Sky

If there’s a fine line between clever and stupid, so also there’s a fine line between edgy and tasteless. This movie is nowhere near either of those lines. A colony of Nazis who escaped to the Moon at the end of World War Two attempts to invade and conquer the world. At best this pokes some unfair fun at right-wing politicians; as loathsome as some of them are, they aren’t Nazis. And at worst it raises the specter of the Holocaust as if it was somehow funny. The experiment that turns a black man white was especially chilling. In context, it was designed mostly to introduce some Kentucky Fried Movie-style racist humor. But it got me to thinking about the actual “racial hygiene” experiments the real Nazis conducted, which in turn sent me to the Web for some refresher reading on the subject. Half an hour or so of that will completely suck away what little entertainment the whole Nazi thing might have had. Wish I’d skipped it