The great Italian playwright and satirist Dario Fo, won the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature in 1997. Fo was given the honour for being a person “who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in the scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden”. Fo’s work, especially ‘The Accidental Death of an Anarchist’, is satire at its best, and works on the principle that the at the heart of any political driven comedy is an underlying truth.
‘Iron Sky’ tries to present itself as a comedy with some elements of satire, but it’s a complete misfire dragged down by a strange blend of Grindhouse cinema that takes itself too seriously.
