Iron Sky

Great idea, lousy execution: "Iron Sky" boasts one of the zaniest premises in recent memory, and somehow manages to squander most of its potential.

History tells us that you can't fake trash classics and you can't manufacture a cult.

Lowballing schlock and nothing more.

Marginally more inspired and certainly more likable than Snakes on a Plane or The Human Centipede as net-spawned exploitation fodder goes, but you can safely wait for the DVD.

The performances are fine and the film, mainly shot in the studios on the Gold Coast, looks terrific most of the time; it's the script that needed more oomph.

Insert your own 'lunar' pun here - this is a true space oddity.

If you're expecting a big-budget space extravaganza, you're going to be sorely disappointed, but if you're after a slice of subversive sci-fi, then this is ausgezeichnet fun.

The film does work and is fun most of the time, even if it has some disappointing passages, keeps losing rhythm due to sloppy editing and fails to make proper use of Udo Kier.

... the comedy of Iron Sky is so broad and on the nose that the majority of the jokes just did not work for me. Some were painfully unfunny. And with a premise this ingenious that is just a little bit sad.

A solid little satire with some impressive-looking set pieces that doesn't have a sadistic bone in its body, and that's not a bad thing at all.