George Clooney’s THE MONUMENTS MEN Trailer

Here’s the first trailer for The Monuments Men, starring George Clooney, Matt Damon, John Goodman, Bob Balaban, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Jean Dujardin, and Hugh Bonneville.  The film, which is directed and co-written by Clooney, tells the true story of a group of men tasked with preserving important art and historical pieces during World War II.

It seems to have something of an Ocean’s vibe to it, which I’m perfectly fine with, and very excited to check it out simply for the cast alone.  The Monuments Men is set to hit theaters December 18th, hit the break for the trailer and synopsis.

Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action-thriller 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.