A nearly apolitical farce where Clooney's combination of wide-eyed lunacy and steely-eyed conviction mesh nicely ... and where Bridges is quite Dude-like in his hippie-dippie demeanor.
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12/17/09
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The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)
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Reviews Counted:171
Fresh:92
Rotten:79
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: Though The Men Who Stare at Goats is a mostly entertaining, farcical glimpse of men at war, some may find its satire and dark humor less than edgy.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Nov 6, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $31,655,240
Synopsis: A reporter (Ewan McGregor) delves into the world of psychic military regiments during the Iraq War in this adaptation of the Jon Ronson book THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS. George Clooney, Kevin... [More]
Starring: George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey
Director: Grant Heslov
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Reviews for The Men Who Stare at Goats
Sometimes the movie cannot get past being merely smile-inducing, but it's a gently funny story of belief in one's inner potential and in the general goodness of most people. I may forget I ever saw it, but I had a pretty good time nonetheless.
12/15/09
This outlandish, bizarre film is funny enough to keep your attention diverted.
12/12/09
full review at Movies for the Masses
12/10/09
The most watered-down episode of M*A*S*H* looks like a Joseph Heller classic by comparison
12/08/09
At best, it's an assembly line of disconnected gags that rely entirely on Mr. Clooney's sub-deadpans and Mr. McGregor's innocent mug working perpendicular to the jokes. At worst, it's a meditation on the greater absurdities of New Age beliefs and ideals.
12/06/09
There's a lament for perverting the purity of essence in enlightenment to military-complex exploitation. Like the film's test goats, it's been de-bleated and, given the pithy talk of Jedi warriors, this is not the political satire you're looking for.
12/03/09
Through the whole film one has the feeling that the real story is just about to begin, but like the original military project, we go nowhere and nothing ever comes of anything.
11/30/09
Psychic spies. Jedi warriors. Clooney delivers big time, but the story could have been better.
11/26/09
Comes to us as the latest political satire to have inadvertently sliced off its own pair.
11/25/09
Begins with the subtitle: "More of this is true than you would believe." It's the perfect beginning to a film that deftly combines truth and fiction.
11/20/09
Setting up easy targets, The Men Who Stare at Goats seems less clever than behind the times.
11/19/09
Mind-altering drugs just might make it seem better than it is.
11/18/09
A quietly wacky military satire good for scattered chuckles and laughs.
11/13/09
Not the acerbic, Strangelovian satire one might expect but a pleasant, good-natured film that adopts the happy hippy vibe of Bridges' far-out Vietnam vet...
11/13/09
This story is a myth, but it is pleasant, gentle and funny. Like all myths, it reveals certain truths.
11/13/09
Too shallow for satire and not funny enough for comedy, the infantile Goats is really just a silly absurdist movie trying to pass for an antiwar film.
11/13/09
The picture soon runs literally and figuratively into the sands and can't dig itself out.
11/13/09
Sometimes hits big with genuine laugh-out-loud moments, but more often, this comedy leaves us scratching our heads, wondering where it all went so wrong.
11/13/09
Feels all too light; it's a movie wherein all the best, funniest bits were shown in the trailer.
11/12/09
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