My boyfriend Matt Damon is in a new movie, so of course I had to go pay him a visit! (You can see his latest wacky bromance publicity stunt with Ben Affleck here.)The Monuments Men - which is a weird-sounding name, but makes sense when you know what the movie is about - tells the adventurous true tale of a past-their-prime band of artists, architects, professors, and the like, who wade into a war where they kinda don't belong to complete a task that most higher-ups kinda don't care about.
Their job is to track down all the art - paintings, sculptures, and most famously the Ghent Altarpiece - which were stolen by the Nazis as they marched across and raided western Europe.
As a war movie, The Monuments Men leaves a lot to be desired. It skips over the strategy, the battles, and really most of the stuff that makes a war movie a war movie. But as a sometimes comedic, almost family-friendly, mostly historically accurate story that happens to have war as a backdrop, it's pretty entertaining. And it has quite a cast! My boyfriend Matt is the baby of the group. He is led by silver-haired George Clooney, and joined by the likes of Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville, John Goodman, and Jean Dujardin (who is actually the baby, 2 years younger than Matt).
Bottom line: don't expect Saving Private Ryan or Glory. Expect goofy guys chasing art and trying to learn how firearms work. If you're okay with that, you'll be okay with the movie.
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