In today’s video, we will be going through the 2012 Comic Sci-fi action film: Iron Sky.
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The movie begins with the scene of an American spaceship, “Liberty,” landing on the moon’s
surface. It is the year 2018. Upon landing, the spacecraft unveils the re-election campaign
poster of the U.S. president. An astronaut named Sanders ventures out of the Liberty
to inspect the surface. He reports back to the mission control of the presence of vast
quantities of Helium-3. Sanders ventures out further in the direction
of the helium-3 source, consequently losing communication with the mission control. Sanders
then comes across a colossal Helium-3 mine. When he turns back to call his co-astronaut
James Washington to check out the surreal mine on the moon, an unknown man appears wearing
a nazi armband. The person shoots Sanders in the head and kills him.
Watching Sanders killed, James starts running back to the Liberty. But before he gets there,
more unknown assailants appear and blow the spaceship apart. The explosion throws him
to the ground and knocks him unconscious. Before passing out, he sees the assailants
with nazi armbands, pointing guns at him. The movie then cuts to a scene of a huge building
in the shape of the swastika on the Darkside of the moon. A woman named Renate Richter
is seen teaching school children. She is an ‘Earth’ specialist of the Fourth Reich.
She tells the children they are going to learn an “unpatriotic” but important language:
English. She says that they must know how to speak the language when they return to
the earth to help humankind. These people are the descendants of the Nazis.
They escaped to the dark side of the moon in 1945 after Germany lost World War II. The
Nazi soldiers bring the captive American astronaut back to their command. The Nazi commander
Klaus Adler presents the American to the Nazi Fuhrer Wolfgang Kortzfleisch.
Back at Earth, the US President is taking out her frustration on her campaign manager
Vivian Wagner. She is upset at her tanking approval ratings because of the failed moon
mission, as the elections are just weeks away. The President consciously chose an African-American
male model to send to the moon. There are some “Black to the Moon” word-play posters
seen in the background. Her re-election team wanted to make her look “inclusive” by
sending a black man to the moon. She asks Vivian to find a way to get her approval ratings
back on track. Back at the nazi moon base classroom, Adler
interrupts Ms. Renate’s class to invite her to meet the ‘earthling’ they have
captured. James manages to flee from captivity. A hot
pursuit follows and James ends up falling down through the air vents onto Adler, who
was escorting Renate to meet James. It knocks Adler out.
Attempting to escape, Adler unknowingly opens the airlock causing Renate and Adler to almost
fly out into the lunar atmosphere. Eventually, Adler catches up to James. An angry Adler
proceeds to shoot James, but James tells him that he knows important people back on earth
and he is of great use to them. He tells him that he knows the United States President.
Upon hearing that, Adler orders his men to immediately take James to Dr. Richter’s
laboratory. The Nazis go through James’ belongings and
are particularly intrigued by his cell phone. James tells them that it is his computer.
The nazi scientist is shocked by his comments and laughs. Dr. Richter then points to a huge
machine behind him and says that it is called a computer. Apparently, the lunar nazis have
been left pretty far behind in technological advancement. Adler gives Dr. Richter 24 hours
to find out why the Americans came to the moon.
Back at the United Nations New York headquarters, American UN representatives give the UN a
briefing on what transpired on the lunar mission. The US president’s campaign manager is struggling
to come up with a great idea to help with the president’s re-election efforts. She
scolds her employees for presenting her with terrible PR ideas.
At the Fourth Reich’s moon base, Adler drops by Renate’s room. He proposes “legal union”
to her. He presents her a confirmation certificate from the Department of Racial Purity that
their DNA matches 97 percent. Adler wishes to produce perfect offerings for the Aryan
race. He also reveals to Renate his ambitions to lead the Nazi empire.
The movie then cuts to the Lunar Nazi’s ambitious project: the battleship Götterdämmerung.
The battleship has been under development for 40 years. It is the dream of the current
Nazi Furer: Wolfgang Kortzfleisch. Dr. Richter reveals that the cell phone that the American
captive brought has thousands of times more computing power than all their biggest computers
together. He then connects the cell phone to the battleship as he strives to demonstrate
to Wolfgang the power of the device. The cell phone starts the battleship but eventually
runs out of battery. The nazi leader is, nevertheless, impressed by the small device’s capabilities.
Adler then seeks the Fuhrer's permission to travel to the earth to obtain more smartphones
like that. He says that he must go to earth if they want to prevent a future invasion
from them. James is kept in isolation and blasted with
constant nazi propaganda. Renate sneaks in to meet him. She is amazed by James' dark
skin. She has never met a black person before this. It is revealed that Dr. Richter has
been injecting James's face with an “albinising drug” to make him look “Aryan.” Before
leaving, she advises James to pretend to be a nazi or else her dad Dr. Richter will eliminate
him. Before departing for Earth, Dr. Richter presents
to Fuhrer Wolfgang an “aryanised” James Washington. Klaus Adler leaves for Earth with
James on a flying saucer. Upon landing in New York City, they discover that Renate has
secretly tagged along with them. Renate is unaware of Adler's ambition to replace Kortzfleisch
and rule the world. The trio steals a Volkswagen van and heads
to kidnap the American President’s campaign manager Vivian. Adler abandons James after
using him to get to Vivian. Vivian initially gets angry at the two for kidnapping her.
But she eventually gets impressed by their charisma and oratory skills. Vivian takes
the two to meet the president. She intends to use them to help energize the President's
re-election campaign. They use Nazi-style rhetorics and propaganda.
Renate runs into James one day. James is upset with the Nazis for “aryanizing” him but
agrees to watch the Charlie Chaplin movie with her. She eventually learns that the Nazis
were horrible. Vivian and Adler continue to work on the president’s
re-election campaign. Vivian is under the impression that Adler is merely playing a
character and is not a nazi. At Vivian’s office, Wolfgang overhears Adler talking to
Vivian, sharing his plans to kill him. The Nazi Fuhrer had secretly traveled to earth.
Wolfgang takes them hostage. Renate then storms into the room to confront Adler. She learned
from James of Adler’s intentions of global genocide and denounces nazism. Wolfgang decides
to kill all of them, but Vivian somehow gets a hold of a gun and massacres Wolfgang and
his men. Before Adler gets to kill Renate and James, the two flee.
Adler declares himself as the new Führer. He takes Kortzfleisch's flying saucer and
returns to orbit taking smartphones and tablets with him. The new Fuhrer Klaus Adler then
launches a massive attack on Earth. He uses a fleet of giant Zeppelin-like spacecraft
called Siegfrieds. It tows asteroids as missiles. It also launches countless flying saucers.
The moon nazis destroy the statue of liberty and, ultimately, the entire city.
Watching the war unfold, Renate decides to go back to the Fourth Reich. She convinces
James to come along with her. The President is elated with the attacks as
she believes that it will help her secure re-election.
The US Air Force retaliates against the attacks and, to some extent, damage the moon Nazi’s
capabilities. The Nazis then unleash an asteroid towed by Siegfrieds onto the earth.
The United Nations assembles to discuss the Moon Nazi threat. Representatives from different
countries accuse each other of being behind the attacks on US soil. Meanwhile, the North
Korea UN representative takes credit for the attacks but gets laughed at by all present
dignitaries. The American president informs the representatives
that the Nazis are behind the attacks on the US. She also unveils the American Mars exploration
ship USS George W. Bush. It has been secretly militarized by the US government and is capable
of fighting star wars. It carries nuclear and directed-energy weapons. The President
appoints Vivian as commander of the secretly militarised spacecraft.
The American spacecraft engages in a battle with the fleet of Siegfrieds. It manages to
damage the moon nazi’s spacecraft but soon gets overpowered. USS George W Bush requests
immediate reinforcements to counter the moon nazis. The request is met when the spaceships
of other countries come to the rescue of the USS GWB. All countries except Finland had
covertly armed their spaceships and programs. Adler orders the men aboard the Siegfried's
to fight till the last man standing and returns to the moon. He has brought with him Vivian’s
tablet and plans to activate Lunar Nazi’s ambitious battleship Götterdämmerung. Aware
of Adler’s ambitions, Renate makes her way to the Götterdämmerung.
After wiping out the Siegfrieds, Earth’s international space coalition led by the USS
George W Bush makes its way towards the Fourth Reich. Aboard the Götterdämmerung, Fuhrer
Klaus Adler is preparing for battle with the incoming Earth’s fleet. Meanwhile, Renate
and James manage to sneak into the Nazi super spaceship. They divide in two as Renate heads
towards the bridge to find Adler while James goes to disable the engine.
The international space fleet arrives at the Moonbase of the nazis. The coalition nukes
the Fourth Reich’s fortress, killing all men, women, and children.
Watching the moon base fall, the Fuhrer Klaus Adler gets impatient and gives Dr. Richter
3 minutes to start the super spaceship. James takes out Dr. Richter just as he gets done
talking to the Fuhrer on the telephone. Fuhrer Adler then orders his men to start
the Helium-3 engines. The Götterdämmerung ventures into the air, easily dwarfing the
international space fleet. USS George W Bush Commander Vivian orders the international
fleet to take position and launches an onslaught on the nazi superspace vessel.
Fuhrer Adler orders that the cannons be prepared. He is informed that the cannons are ready
to be fired, but Earth is below the horizon. It is on the other side of the moon. Adler
then orders his men to make a brand new horizon. The Götterdämmerung bombs parts of the moon
to bring Earth into its line of fire. During the battle, James tries to disconnect
Vivian’s tablet from the control panel of the Götterdämmerung but gets taken out by
Dr. Richter when he gains consciousness. Meanwhile, Renate plays the Nazi anthem on the PSA to
keep the nazi officers busy as she makes her way towards the Fuhrer. James attacks Dr.
Richter when he performs the nazi salute upon hearing the nazi anthem. Eventually, James
disconnects Vivian's tablet, while Renate kills Adler by electrocuting him before he
can fire at Earth. Renate and Washington separately escape as
the Götterdämmerung crashes into the Moon. From the UN headquarters, the US president
congratulates Commander Vivian on successfully defeating the nazis. While responding to the
congratulatory message Vivian discloses the presence of large tanks of helium-3 on the
moon in front of all the UN representatives from different countries. Helium-3’s possession
ensures a millennium-long supply of energy. The US president lays sole claim on the energy
source stating that it is the US that beat the lunar nazis like back in 1945. This enrages
the other UN members, who engage in a brawl, while the international fleet turns on each
other. Renate reunites with Washington, who has reverted
his pigmentation back to normal. They then kiss.
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