Django/Django Strikes Again

Django/Django Strikes Again
by Nello Rossati, Sergio Corbucci

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Actor: ?ngel ?lvarez, Franco Nero, Gino Pernice, Jos? B?dalo, Loredana Nusciak
Director: Nello Rossati, Sergio Corbucci
Writer: Nello Rossati
Writer: Bruno Corbucci
Writer: Franco Reggiani
Writer: Franco Rossetti
Writer: Jos? Guti?rrez Maesso
Writer: Piero Vivarelli
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Italian (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.66:1
Running Time: 186 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-10-26
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay

DVD Reviews of Django/Django Strikes Again

DVD Review: Django/Django Strikes Again
Summary: 3 Stars

I give the fist movie 3 stars (Django). The other disk...... throw it away I give that movie -3 stars for wasting 90 min. of my life. Buy the vesion that only has Django.

DVD Review: Django and D-Junko Strikes Again
Summary: 1 Stars

Other then "The Great Silence" - Most Corbucci films are inept, sloppy, and cartoonish. Speed Racer can be less cartoonsish. (just check out Navajo Joe or Campaneros).

In Django a laconic anti-hero drags around a crucifix incrusted coffin with a little surprise inside. I assume Django must represent the vengeful Christ of Revelations. This is because as Christ figure Django certainly is not of the "turn the other cheek" variety. Django seems to be surrounded by more Christ symbolism then I can count including a death wielding crucifix in a grave yard showdown(with symbolic red rose bush and Catholic prayer).

Very unfortunately Franco Nero's understated anti-hero style acting is completely ruined be thin Casper Milquetoast voice, hokey dialogue and flat sound in the English dubbed version.

I found that much of the music in the film was not bad but the opening Django song seemed way over the top to say the least. Morricone is definitely missed.

Id recommend only the Blue Underground Italian language. In Italian Django sounds fine and the dialogue is vastly improved and more interesting. But it is a bit odd watching a western dubbed in Italian.

Anchor Bay's version looks and sounds only OK but Blue Underground's version looks and sounds great. Blue Underground's beautiful Italian dubbed version rates 4 stars.

The second DVD - "Django Strikes Again" is worse on every level, although it makes a cliched attempt to be stylish. The plot and acting are inane, and the action scenes are preposterous. - (Django escapes by rolling down a hill in a barrel). The people and locations give no feeling for the American West or even Mexico. The film would be insulting if it were not so unimportant and forgettable. (a black woman in a retro-chain-outfit pours water over herself as a means to torture enslaved Mexicans on a jet-black river boat. - Where the hell is this supposed to take place?!

Poor Donald Pleasance cannot help this atrocity. Instead seeing him in the film is merely sad. I would have given "Django" more stars if "Strikes Again" were not attached to this package. Expect "Strikes Again" to be on Mystery Science theater 3000 someday.

The original "Django" is not bad in its Italian language form and as is the proto-type for the Spaghetti Western anti-hero and the many dark, violent stylish spaghetti westerns that were to follow. In that regard maybe it deserves recognition and a place in history. That said I can only recommend this two-fer package to hard-core spaghetti western fans who are very very forgiving.

DVD Review: awesome double feature!
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a fantastic DVD set with two very entertaining Django movies starring Franco Nero. Both flicks are fun stuff and this is a terrific DVD package with some cool extra features. IT'S GREAT! THANKS ANCHOR BAY!

DVD Review: Django Strikes Again
Summary: 4 Stars

Not sure about director 'Ted Archer' but one thing is certain: 'Ted Archer' is not Guiseppe Colizzi or Sergio Carbucci! -- however 'Ted' is still a gifted director all the same. Likewise not sure if 'Django Strikes Again' truly qualifies as a spaghetti western or just as an offbeat Italian film? Whatever the case diehard Italian film/spaghetti western lovers will love this movie but everyone else will probably loathe it as we can see from the one-star reviews already submitted. For those of us who love the imagination and intention of these Italian films the movie does not disappoint, especially with the characteristically eccentric performance of Donald Pleasance, as well as a very mature and thoughtful rendition from Franco Nero. The transfer to DVD is excellent in region zero - a nice surprise as well! Italian film/spaghetti western movie lovers will rate this film as four stars, while all others will probably give only one star. In the end though as a creative work it is a great effort based upon a lofty ideal which the film does not quite reach however four out of five stars for trying!

DVD Review: Once Upon a Time in a Graveyard...
Summary: 3 Stars

This film is the perfect counterpoint to Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West," which rewards the patient viewer with a slowly unfolding mythic tale that ends up transcending both the American and Spaghetti western genres. Corbucci, as always, is an impatient director, beginning his film not with an interminable wait for a train, but with a simple image of a gunfighter hauling a coffin and saddle (most people forget that little detail) behind him through a muddy wasteland. Enzo Barboni's exquisite camerawork and Luis Bacalov's witty score punctuates this frenetic, modest film. If it weren't for the literally dozens of interchangeable villains (Corbucci has Major Jackson's cretins wear red scarves seemingly so Django and the audience can tell bystanders from bad guys), this probably wouldn't have been such an influential film in Europe. But the extremity of the violence, combined with the comic-book style stunt-work and photography (John Woo points to Peckinpah as a major influence, but one has to wonder how many times he watched Corbucci, too!), is probably what made it such a phenomenon. There's art to this movie--but an art diametrically opposed to Leone's works. For whereas Leone is all suspense--a series of build-ups and crescendi, almost classical in their orientation, concluding with a final, overwhelmingly tense battle--Corbucci seems always in a hurry to get on to the *next* battle. Men fall like ten-pins; bullets fly thick as a swarm of bees; and it's all over usually before any level of suspense ever begins to build. Only the concluding scene, with the mysterious Django struggling to use his beloved's (?) cemetery cross as a desperate replacement for his mangled hands, gestures to anything more than the sum of the film's parts. Great fun for those who don't mind a "Wild Bunch"-like bodycount to go with a whole lot of style but not a whole lot of substance.

Description of Django/Django Strikes Again

Django Along with Sergio Leone's Clint Eastwood trilogy, Sergio Corbucci's Django, starring Belgian hunk Franco Nero as the gritty mercenary who drags a coffin behind him, was one of the most influential spaghetti Westerns. After mowing down armies of bad guys with his machine gun (which he brandishes in classic two-fisted tough-guy fashion--from the hip), he stages a daring gold heist from a Mexican military fortress and then plots to double-cross his bandito partners. Corbucci, who cowrote the story, fashions an unrelentingly violent tale of rival gangs squeezing the life out of a muddy, bloody border town, reveling in the sadism of the genre. The film opens with a woman strung up and lashed by a group of lascivious bandits, only to be saved by even more sadistic gunmen who plan to burn her alive, and Django fan Quentin Tarantino borrowed the scene where a vindictive general slices the ear off a corrupt preacher for Reservoir Dogs. While not as stylish as Leone's operatic epics, Django pushed the borders of violence into all-new territory, and the film was banned outright in England and cut in the U.S. It spawned 20 unofficial sequels before Nero returned 20 years later for the only legitimate sequel, Django Strikes Again. In the meantime, Nero followed up this grimy antihero role with a turn as the singing medieval superknight Lancelot in Camelot! Also features a short interview with Nero.

Django Strikes Again Franco Nero returns in the only official sequel to Sergio Corbucci's trendsetting Django. Twenty years later the repentant gunman has buried his past and entered a monastery, but he is rallied into action when his daughter is kidnapped by slave-driving Prussian autocrat Christopher Connelly. Captured and set to work in Connelly's silver mine, Django escapes with the help of a prisoner (a warm performance by Donald Pleasance), digs up his trusty machine gun, and returns wielding death, appropriately from the seat of a hearse. Django Strikes Again was shot in the jungles of Columbia, and the landscape only vaguely resembles the American Gulf Coast, but the lush river settings create a magnificent backdrop for the film's set piece, which features a black, armored steamship that cruises local towns for mine slaves and young girls to be sold to the bordellos. Director Ted Archer maintains the strong brutal streak that runs through the history of Italian westerns. Kids are tortured and monasteries and convents raided by Connelly's men, while Django beheads a pair of raiders with a swipe of a scythe. The carefully plotted (if at times preposterous) story and the transformation of Django from heartless mercenary lifts this from the mire of spaghetti Western sadism to create a genuinely involving film that is, at its best, better than its inspiration. Also features a short interview with Nero. --Sean Axmaker

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