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Someday let us pray we have this again!

This just never gets old for me! Enjoy!

Not sure how much of that is real vs. staged, since it's from a movie.

I didn't care for it.  If this was normal at the Vatican (vs. staged for the movie), we can see that the idea of the "Rock Star Pope" didn't originate with the V2 papal imposters.  He's making the old "bring it on" gesture immortalized by Wojtyla.  They're singing Handel (a Protestant) with lots of female voices.  Of course, singing "Alleleuia" for the Pope (rather than directed toward God) is also a bit over the top.  Finally, the worst part, clapping and cheering in church as if they were at a rock concert.

This is a visual of the same thing that happened theologically / doctrinally, where Pius XII's papacy was THE watershed that ushered in the Vatican II era.

I'd much rather see a quiet, somber, uncharismatic pope ... who restored the Sodalitium, stamped out Modernism, and condemned all the errors of the day (which were pervasive among the Catholic clergy and the hierarchy).

Oh, LOL, as per the one video of a +Thuc-line consecration where someone criticized the bishop for tracing upside down crosses with his hand in the air ... Pius XII did the same thing.

Pius XII ushered in the Vatican II era, and this is a visual representation thereof.

That's some pretty kick-butt German he's speaking there, with no notes, nothing.  It's Italian-accented but otherwise pretty fluent.  Very impressive.

He was well known as a major Germanophile ... and early in his "career" he served as the Papal Nuncio to Bavaria (and effectively to Germany and Prussia as well), from 1917 to 1929, so he would have had 12 years to become comfortable with German.