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Django Unchained Review

      “Adult supervision is required”, quotes Calvin Candie in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, this year’s baddest ass movie and one of 2012’s best.       Being a huge Tarantino fan, I was stoked to see how he would work his lyrical and violent genius into a spaghetti western. He did not disappoint.       The story, in brief, is about a bounty hunter Dr. King Schulz, who is going after his biggest bounty, but needs a slave to identify the men.  That slave is Django.  He frees Django and they find these men, The Brittle Brothers, and kill them.  But rather than letting Django go, Schulz feels he is responsible and should help Django find his wife.  So he and Django go through the country finding the bounties until they find Django’s wife at a plantation in Mississippi called Candie Land. She is there, but the question is, can they get her out with keeping themselves alive?  I won’t give away any details, but it goes about in epic Tarantino fashion: shooting,