A blatant rip-off of "The Dirty Dozen"

Rating: 2/10 (28 May 2012)

I found this film entertaining, but that doesn't mean it's something I can respect.
It's one thing to make sequels and prequels as an admission of creative bankruptcy. That's certainly bad enough, and distressingly common nowadays.
But outright rip-offs of other films based -- apparently -- on the assumption that the young film-going audience is unaware of anything created before their time is unacceptable.
Especially when the critics and audiences go into orgasmic ecstasies regarding the "fresh" and "original" -- not to mention "revolutionary" and "profound" -- supposed merits of the film in question.
It's all a sad commentary on how ignorant and easily conned even today's supposed intellectuals are. They are, in fact, ignorant victims of the self-esteem industry and should bow their heads in shame.
It is distasteful as well to see yet another movie that exploits the Holocaust. I would have hoped that "Schindler's List" would be the last gasp of that "genre." Now, if one forgets all the above, there are some good things in this movie. But "good things" in the sense of a comedy of manners or stereotypes. The raging Hitler is well-done, as is the ruthless SS officer. Of course, we know (I note with sarcasm) that the greatest Hollywood-style Nazi villains are always charming, suave and debonair; not to mention multi-lingual (in French, German, English and Italian) and able to handle themselves in posh restaurants...
If Tarantino wanted to make a black comedy based on exaggerated stereotypes, he might have succeeded. It is the lack of originality in every respect, however, that kills this film and makes its greatest advocates out to be fools.