Best Jewish genocide revenge fantasy ever (more so than it was a war movie in genre terms, though I'd love to see more of Basterds like the Bear Jew, Stiglitz and Utivitch - perhaps an extended cut to some on disc?). IB is almost poetic in it's playful and often quite gory revisionist history, and gives Pitt almost as much room to really chow down on the mise en scene for the first time since (well, maybe Benamin Button, if I watch it again and it gets a lot funnier and less dreary) 12 Monkeys.
If QT ever really had the intention to make a men on a mission movie, he clearly put the idea aside long ago in favour of combining Shoshana's story with a dazzling armoury of characters from Aldo Raine's crew (none of which come close to wearing out their screen time, or ever getting enough of it - turns out Eli Roth can Act like a mother fucker), fuelled by snippets of Ennio Morricone's westerns scores and a version of World War II that owes much more to cinema than any History book. As for Samuel L Jackson's VO or Keitel's cameo (on the phone? lame) they were entirely unnecessary cal backs to old QT movies and much less successful for me than Mike Myers' small role and some a barmy English General and the over the top Errol Flynn/David Niven homage of Lt. Archie Hicox and revolting arch bad guy The Jew Hunter.
If anything the films a little over-stuffed with these great characters we never quite get to see enough of, but I guess that's better than dragging on to long (like the Kill BIll Double, in my opinion)
QT really twists up another new genre with this movie and it's great fun.
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