The trailer for Inglorious Basterds was released this morning. From the Daily Mail:

Inglourious Basterds sees Pitt play commander of the unit Lt Aldo Raine who sets about on a mission to kill and dismember Germans during the Second World War.

The film – inspired by 1978 Italian war movie The Inglorious Bastards – follows a band of Jewish-American soldiers dropped into France to spread terror among the Nazi occupiers.

The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a cinema in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

Based on the trailer, which is nearly two minutes long, cinema-goers will be in for the usual bloodthirsty and violent Tarantino style seen in his previous work, including Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill films.

In the teaser, Pitt, playing the commander, tells his troops: ‘We are going to be doing one thing and one thing only. Killing Nazis.’

Speaking over a sinister rock soundtrack, he continues: ‘We will be cruel to the German. And through our cruelty they will know who we are.

‘They will find the evidence of our cruelty in the disembowelled, dismembered and disfigured bodies of their brothers we leave behind us.’

He continues: ‘Each man under my command owes me 100 Nazi scalps. And I want my scalps.’

The trailer also shows clips of incredibly violent scenes. The strapline reads: ‘You haven’t seen war, until you’ve seen it through the eyes of Quentin Tarantino.’

Inglourious Basterds features a large cast including Pitt, Mike Myers and Samuel L. Jackson and is due to be unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

Personally, I don’t think Tarantino has made a good film since Pulp Fiction, so I’m not so hot to trot on this one. I like it whenever Brad Pitt plays a lunatic, however…