The trailer for Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino's Nazi-scalping, band-of-brutal-brothers World War II epic, is of course now online, after having (partially?) debuted on Entertainment Tonight or Access Hollywood or one of those other shows earlier this week. And it's a fairly kick-ass thing, I have to say, just operating on a gut-level reaction.


Without an overload of snarkiness, it clearly and effectively conveys the over-the-top tone, in other words — this ain't your father's World War II movie. Brad Pitt's accent is sort of beautifully ludicrous, and the music, with its slight twinge of industrial grind, works well. Eli Roth's smirk after Pitt's monologue about wanton cruelty, might make the whole trailer, though. Confounding young spelling bee participants, Inglourious Basterds releases August 21, domestically from the Weinstein Company and internationally from Universal Pictures.