YMMV / Iron Sky

• Anvilicious: Republicans are Nazis, at least on the surface
• Awesome Music: The trailer rocks out to Laibach's B Mashina.
• Genius Bonus: Many.
  • For example, all Nazi spaceships have been named after Wagner's operas. The score quotes Wagner's Gotterdämmerung in particular. Fittingly, Gotterdämmerung is the German translation of Ragnarök. Of course there is a reason why the trope Music to Invade Poland to brings Wagner to mind...
  • Adler's name recalls Alfred Adler, an Austrian psychologist who built his theory of individual psychology around the "Will to Power".
  • When the Indian representative sees the swastika on this incoming spaceships, he quickly hides his own Non-Nazi Swastika.
  • The national anthem of the Moon Nazis uses the tune of the old German patriotic song "Die Wacht am Rhein" with different lyrics. From World War One to the end of World War 2, "Die Wacht am Rhein" was so popular that it was one of the de facto German national anthems (the other one being the more famous - and still used today - "Deutschlandlied"). So, the Nazis kept as their anthem a tune their ancestors viewed as such.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Adler and Richter's populist message proving extremely successful after being adapted into the US Republican presidential campaign can have a bitter aftertaste after the real-world global rise of right-wing populism from 2015 onward, especially in the US.
  • The Moon Nazis forcibly change Washington's black skin to white to "aryanize" him, making him appear like an albino black man, Played for Laughs because of the ridiculous pseudo-science involved. In the third season of The Man in the High Castle aired in 2018, another work centered around technologically-advanced Nazis, their scientists are shown performing similar experiments on black people, this time playing it for unironic Nightmare Fuel.
• Moral Event Horizon: When Vivian orders the attack on the Schwarze Sonne, over objections of "What about the women and children down there?". (How the crew knows there are women and children inside a secret Nazi base on the "dark side" of the moon, which they only first saw a minute earlier, we aren't told.) Considering the Nazis have been on the moon since the Second World War and aren't elderly, it is reasonable to assume that they have women and children inside their base.
• Music to Invade Poland to: The soundtrack includes snippets of Wagner's operas, most obviously Ride of the Valkyries and Gotterdammerung.
• Narm: When Kortzfleisch is shot, the vocal reaction is hilariously underwhelming.
• Special Effect Failure:
  • No one could ever legitimately believe that Washington is anything but an albino black man. Not much you can do about it, though, besides completely changing the actor. However, it's arguable that that's a failure at all, since he underwent treatment that made his skin and lighter, and apparently made his... lets say it made his crotch "disappointing". There's no reason to expect anything other than an albino black man. There are Albino black people, and that is exactly what most people in the real world would have confused Washington with. Then again, it's completely in tone with the Nazis' superficial racist views to believe that whiteface would make him Aryan.
  • When the moon mission lander touches down at the beginning of the movie, the engine stops when the foot pads are still a little bit above the ground. In the real Apollo missions, the astronauts dared not shut off the lunar module's descent engine until the contact light was lit, indicating that the foot pads were on the surface. We lost the Mars polar lander because its descent engine cut out before it was on the ground.
• Spiritual Adaptation: Makes for a rather spoofy adaptation of the Wolfenstein video game franchise, the latest entries especially.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: "Ready to face the music" (the piece which plays when the US Airforce swoops in to defend New York) has its initial chords resemble the Imperial March. Probably not unintentionally, given the way the US is presented in the film.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: On the one side we have Moon Nazis who want to destroy and/or conquer the Earth. On the other side we have the people of Earth, a collection of Jerkasses and Dumbasses so universally horrible they almost make the Nazis look like good guys in comparison.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The CGI was quite well done, and a surprising amount of it.

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