Tarantino tries his hand at a comedy

Rating: 2/10 (5 March 2012)

I was watching this last night and waiting for a plot, and I was waiting, and waiting. Then I realised that it was meant to be a comedy. Or I hope it was, that's the only excuse I can think of why someone like Tarantino might have made a film like this.
It doesn't really have a plot, instead it has a series of pastiches and comic characters that can't be taken seriously.
As is usual with any Tarantino film there are loads of references to other films throughout this one. That's how I stopped myself nodding off to sleep, by trying to spot as many as I could.
From the comic cameos of people playing Hitler and Churchill, to the comic version of the Dirty Dozen where everything they try goes wrong. Or was that because they were part of the OSS, the precursor to the CIA? To the ridiculous Mexican stand-off in the cellar bar and thence on to the even more ridiculous denouement.