Underrated

Rating: 9/10 (11 June 2014)

I seriously don't understand why the critics seem to hate on this film. I personally loved it. I love the characters, the acting, the theme especially. In fact I am listening to the theme right now as I'm writing this. The plot is that during World War 2, the Nazis have stolen all the famous pieces of art from the conquered territories. Reichmarshall Hermann Goering (Udo Kroschwald) has decided to make a Fuhrer Museum with the help of Senior Lance Corporal Viktor Stahl (Justus Von Dohnányi). Meanwhile over in the United States Lieutenant Frank Stokes (George Clooney) has gained permission from Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Michael Dalton) to create a platoon called the Monuments Men to recover the Art stolen by the Nazis. It includes Lieutenant James Granger (Matt Damon), Sergeant Richard Campbell (Bill Murray), Sergeant Walter Garfield (John Goodman), Private Preston Savitz(Bob Balaban), Jean Claude Clermont (Jean Dujardin), Lieutenant Donald Jeffries (Hugh Bonneville), and Sam Epstein (Dimitri Leonidas). They go all over France shortly after D-Day to recover some of the Art. They later advance through France and find more and more places where the Art is stolen. But they lose Jean Claude Clermont and Lieutenant Jeffries. But eventually all art is taken by the monuments men and is returned to their owners. I think that this film has been unfairly judged by the critics, because I sure loved it. It's fun, it's funny, and it's an all around great film.