INGLORIOUS BASTERDS
HEADLINE: ** Exhilarating and Somewhat Profound **
Title: INGLORIOUS BASTERDS
Quality: * * * * Acceptability: -2
SUBTITLES: - English Subtitles for Some Italian, French and German -
WARNING CODES:
Language: LLL
Violence: VVV
Sex: SS
Nudity: N
RATING: R
RELEASE: August 21, 2009
TIME: 153 minutes
STARRING: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Christoph Waltz, and Melanie Laurent
DIRECTOR: Quentin Tarantino
PRODUCERS: Lawrence Bender
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Erica Steinberg, Lloyd Phillips, Bob Weinstein, and Harvey Weinstein
WRITER: Quentin Tarantino
BASED ON THE NOVEL/PLAY BY: N/A
DISTRIBUTOR: Weinstein Co./Universal Pictures/General Electric
CONTENT: (BB, PPP, Pa, LLL, VVV, SS, N, AA, D, MM) Strong moral worldview in very patriotic war movie about fighting Hitler and his Nationalist Socialist army, but with a revenge motif that can be merciless; about 43 to 45 obscenities (including many "f" words but many other light and not so light kinds as well), five GDs and one My God; some extreme violence and lots of action violence includes soldier hits Nazi's head with baseball bat and then camera backs away to long distance shot as solider beats him further, soldiers scalp Nazi soldiers, soldier carves swastika into Nazi soldier's forehead in close-up, shots of scalped Nazi corpses, man slits Nazi soldier's throat, soldier machine-guns Nazi leader's head repeatedly, shootings, gunfight in tavern, soldier pokes woman's wound to make sure she is telling the truth, explosions, Nazi soldiers with guns kill Jewish family hiding under floorboards, and propaganda film within movie shows war battle and sniper; short depicted sex scene between Hitler's married propaganda minister Goebbels and his French mistress; upper male nudity; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking; and, anti-Semitism rebuked, amoral villain, revenge theme, and man is threatened to reveal where his family has hidden a Jewish family.
GENRE: War Movie
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Older teenagers and adults
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SUMMARY: Quentin Tarantino's INGLORIOUS BASTERDS stars Brad Pitt in a suspenseful story about two plots to kill Adolph Hitler and the German High Command during World War II in 1944. INGLORIOUS BASTERDS is an exhilarating, audacious and riveting war movie, but it includes extreme violence, plenty of strong foul language and a short sex scene, so it requires extreme caution.
IN BRIEF:
Quentin Tarantino's INGLORIOUS BASTERDS stars Brad Pitt as Lt. Aldo Raines, who forms a ruthless band of Jewish American soldiers ordered to perform swift, brutal acts of retribution against Nazi soldiers behind enemy lines. Eventually, the story moves to 1944. Raines and his men join a British commando and a German actress who's an undercover agent. The mission? Kill Adolph Hitler and the German High Command attending the premiere of a propaganda film in a Paris theater. The theater's female owner has a revenge plot of her own. Into this tense situation steps the evil Col. Landa, a wily SS officer introduced in the movie's tense opening scene.
INGLORIOUS BASTERDS is an exhilarating, audacious and suspenseful piece of filmmaking. Christoph Waltz creates one of the most vivid, chilling villains in memory. Brad Pitt is a hoot as the Southern talking, boisterous Lt. Raines. Regrettably, the movie contains plenty of extreme violence, strong foul language and a short sex scene. It clearly sides with the good guys fighting Hitler's National Socialists, but there is a revenge element. Some profound themes and moments augment the exciting qualities in this riveting war movie.
