That’s so Nazi

Quentin Tarantino returns to his favorite theme of revenge this Friday with Inglourious Basterds [sic], and advance reviews have it getting some of his highest ratings since Pulp Fiction fifteen years ago. Brad Pitt stars as a hillbilly lieutenant channeling George C. Scott and leading a band of Jewish-American GIs on a quest to kill as many Nazis as possible in enemy-occupied France at the height of WWII. His brutal exploits strike fear into the heart of the Third Reich which vows to wipe out his platoon known as “The Basterds.” Soon the soldiers meet a young French-Jewish woman who operates a movie theater that has been targeted by Nazis, and Pitt works covertly with a sympathetic actress and undercover agent. It all culminates at the movies as each party seeks revenge on the Germans in their own way. Diane Kruger, B.J. Novak and Eli Roth co-star. Rated R.