Product Details

• Actors: Brad Pitt, Cristoph Waltz, Mike Myers, Michael Bacall, Bo Svenson
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
• Dubbed: French, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Universal Studios
• DVD Release Date: December 15, 2009
• Digital Copy Expiration Date: April 30, 2015 (Click here for more information)
• Run Time: 153 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (765 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002T9H2LK
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,234 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • #99 in Movies & TV > DVD > Military & War
• Learn more about "Inglourious Basterds (DVD + Digital Copy)" on IMDb

Editorial Reviews

Additional Features

Like the picture they accompany, the supplemental features on the Inglourious Basterds special edition embrace the cerebral and the absurd with equal gusto. The strongest and most informative extra in the set is a 30-minute conversation with director Quentin Tarantino, Brad Pitt, and critic Elvis Mitchell, one of Tarantino's most ardent supporters. Mitchell guides the talk to intriguing topics, including the physicality of Pitt's performance and Tarantino's directorial shorthand with the actor. It's followed closely by the complete, six-minute "Nation's Pride," Eli Roth's marvelous re-creation of a Nazi propaganda film, as well as Mitchell's scholarly examination of "Pride," its evocative poster art, and the real German film that influenced it (The White Hell of Pitz Palu, which plays at Melanie Laurent's theater). There are also likable tributes to Italian filmmaker Enzo Castellari, who helmed the original Basterds (and who appears as a Nazi general in the film's finale), and actor Rod Taylor, who shares some amusing stories about how he came to be cast as Winston Churchill. Less intriguing is "Quentin Tarantino's Camera Angel," a three-minute collection of cheeky comments by the film's European clapper handler, and "Hi Sallys," a montage of blown takes and salutes from cast and crew to editor Sally Menke; same goes for "The Making of 'Nation's Pride,'" a silly, faux making-of documentary with Roth affecting an atrocious accent as its director. The extended and alternate scenes--three in total--are also minor at best, and there are galleries of poster art and previews as well. After watching the special edition, one can't help but feel that a simple commentary from Tarantino might've rendered the majority of these extras, well, extraneous. --Paul Gaita

Product Description

Brad Pitt takes no prisoners in Quentin Tarantino’s high-octane WWII revenge fantasy Inglourious Basterds. As war rages in Europe, a Nazi-scalping squad of American soldiers, known to their enemy as “The Basterds,” is on a daring mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich. Bursting with “action, hair-trigger suspense and a machine-gun spray of killer dialogue” (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone), Inglourious Basterds is “another Tarantino masterpiece” (Jake Hamilton, CBS-TV)!

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

110 of 134 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Blu-ray quality nice, but "Special Edition" not so special... January 21, 2010

By P. M. Bego

Format:Blu-ray|Amazon Verified Purchase

This is just a review of the Blu-Ray "2 Disc Special Edition" since there are plenty of reviews of the movie itself by reviewers far more qualified than I.

The video and sound quality is excellent and I have no complaints about that. But I have to give this 4 stars instead of 5, because, I just don't get some of the "marketing lingo" on this package:

* This version does NOT include a running commentary. None at all (not director, not actors, not cinematographer, nothing). To me this is really odd -- it seems that almost all DVDs released in the last 10 years have had some sort of commentary track. Especially with a Tarantino movie, this seems like something you really WANT to have.
* I think this is the only Blu-ray version available right now. It includes the "digital copy" but that is just a lower-res copy of a movie with DRM, nothing wrong with getting that with it, but that is one of the TWO discs in the "Special Edition"
* If this is the only one available, and it doesn't include stuff like a commentary, what makes the Marketing people put the "Special Edition" tag on it? I guess because it comes with the low-res copy, see previous item...
* Other info on the package is misleading too. It says under "Additional Features:" "The original Inglorious Bastards." This might lead one to conclude that it includes the original movie (and there would be plenty of room for an SD copy of a movie on a Blu-ray disk. This feature is just a 10-minute summary of the movie and discusses it's relation to the new movie. A nice feature worth watching, but I think the way it is named as a feature is misleading.
* Minor thing: They put a sticker about "Includes Digital Copy" on the metallic-printed cardboard sleeve. When you take off the sticker, it removes part of the metallic printing. I know these sleeves are only meant to make the product look nice and flashy and get your attention when it's on a store shelf. But for those of us that like to keep these, it was annoying the way it was stickered. If they put the sticker on the outer plastic shrink-wrap this wouldn't be a problem.

Still a great movie and I'm glad I got the disc. Giving it 4 of 5 because of the questionable "Special-ness" of the Edition.

219 of 283 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars WARNING: This movie may not be what you are expecting... December 21, 2009

By D. Ferrari

Format:Blu-ray

This movie is really pretty outstanding. The opening scene is intense, frightening, shocking, and appauling all at once, and it sets up the entire film perfectly. I really had no expectations for this movie because I had read so many mixed reviews and none of them really said anything, so I actually thought this was a really good movie although a bit drawn out. The film is artfully done beautifully shot and extremely well acted.

Now here's why you may not like this quite as much as I did and why my wife absolutely HATED it.

What most expected from this movie:
1- Gore, action, and more gore and more action
2- A story that follows the Basterds as they wreak havoc on Hitler's army
3- Maybe a few subtitles as the film does take place in France after all
4- Classic Quentin Tarantino comedic dialogue

What the film actually is:
1- A character driven story HEAVY on dialogue and other than the last 20 minutes extremely light on action with a couple pretty graphic gory bits tossed in. The last 20 minutes is extremely graphic and violent.
2- The story largely follows the young Jewish girl/woman who escapes the opening scene. The Basterds are just kind of there as an afterthought because they are planning to blow up the same theater.
3- This film is conservatively speaking about 80% subtitled and spoken either in German or French.
4- The only part that is really funny (and it is hilarious) is Brad Pitt "speaking" Italian so poorly that Helen Keller could have picked him out as the American in the crowd.

I've read negative reviews about how this film is "war porn" and diminishes U.S. veterans in some way, but this couldn't be further from the truth. First of all this film is pure fiction that just happens to take place during WWII in France. Nothing depicted in this film is based in any way on fact. It is a complete fantasy of what could have possibly happened if Hitler and all the Nazi upper echelon had all decided to go to a jewish owned movie theater to watch a propaganda film.

Overall it is an extremely well made film that does just about everything well. It is a little bit drawn out at over 2.5 hours but like I said it is very well done and the acting is superb. 4.5 stars. I'd recommend it but be sure to have an open mind.

***Update***
My wife wants to watch it again. She thinks that maybe due to the fact that we started this at about 2:00 am might have had an effect on her opinion. We'll see. For me personally after a second viewing I like it even more.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Tarantino is one talented, er, basterd! December 5, 2011

By J.D. Guinness

Format:DVD

Given his bizarre, genre-twisting reputation, Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Bastereds" impresses most with its decidedly old-fashioned suspense scenes!

Everyone knows about Christoph Waltz, but to me the real standout performance here is Melanie Laurent as the cinema proprietor, a real study in subtlety and total immersion in a role. And of course Brad Pitt is a reliable crowd-pleaser as Aldo Raine (Fave moment: When Pitt, already in close-up, leans forward and says "Ah WILL have mah SCALPS!" Terrific)

This is as good as everyone says, and makes for a magnificently entertaining movie night. One you'll long remember.