Tarentino or "The Cartoon Western"

Rating: 2/10 (6 February 2013)

This idea : pulling a black man off from slavery condition to become a Western hero seemed rather smart.
Unfortunately Tarentino had been really lazy on this one.
Here is "Django", our hero supposed to free himself from the yoke of human-object condition, shot out there, as a comic-opera cowboy with Hollywood sunglasses, provided with immediate horseman and sharpshooter talents persuaded by this good Doctor Schultz, without no plausible reason to play a merciless black slave driver. Django free from his slavery condition seems to be Dr Schultz puppet : the last straw! USA history is replete with inspiring black heroes examples able to give a better inspiration.
A clumsy sentimental story mixed with the duo-cliché : immoral ferocity give the right for savage revenge supposed to relieve our conscience from the past. We have the feeling that Tarentino use this guilty conscience by creating this soulless hero. What was the main accusation against slavery if not admit these people has their own soul?
Some tacit rules had been set by Italian Western revolution. A subtle mix between drama and strong acid humor, at least one epic scene, a characters association about an unequivocally and strictly material goal. In this "Django Unchained", of course humor is present but in a very Monthy Phyton's way that cuts all kind of tension effect. What is supposed to be dramatic is not in as much as these violent scenes are directly inspired by "Hitchy & Scratchy" a self-proclaimed parody. The characters association ? A bounty hunter ready to risk his own life (plus his money) to get join two lovebirds, ...come on!
Remains the excellent Christoph Waltz, his mannerism, his diction have a true impact contrasting in the middle of this environment. Leornardo Di Caprio plays both with refinement and amplitude a real first class bad man. Dialogues between these two composers are the most delicious moments in this movie unfortunately underused and quickly interrupted. Once these two sacrificed, we yet know the end and no more than half an hour of movie remains.
So half an hour I passed picking up paps around. This nth blockbuster discount scene where our hero make the bad man's house blowing up and where he stands here without even loose his hat. They really have to find anything else to wake us up. Our hero doing some style figure from riding school,  this... a Western?
This recycling in Tarentino's movies is not too surprising but concerning the soundtrack, we are far from a remake of the original, so isn't it too obviously easy to take back tracks from Corbucci's original "Django" ? The "buttonhole flower bleeding" took back from "Il Mercenario" from the same Corbucci from who Tarentino took back the same soundtrack for "Kill Bill".More than a tribute this is pillaging.
May be I loved too much Tarantino's "Pulp fiction" and "Jackie Brown" and too much Italian Westerns too. May be was I too much excited to see a good mix of this.