Well, I’m still a little confused by the tone of The Monuments Men. The plot doesn’t sound like this should be a comedy, but the first trailer definitely played up the humor. Fortunately, this second trailer takes things a bit more seriously and also goes further in explaining the story.
Directed by and starring George Clooney, the cast includes Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Cate Blanchett, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, and Hugh Bonneville.
Columbia Pictures is releasing The Monuments Men on December 18, 2013.
The Plot: Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could these guys – seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, all more familiar with Michelangelo than the M-1 – possibly hope to succeed?
But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time to avoid the destruction of 1000 years of culture, they would risk their lives to protect and defend mankind’s greatest achievements.
Watch the trailer:
