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All in all, Goats would have been groaningly familiar, even back in the 1960s.
Everyone involved seems to have had a pretty good time, but this one looks like it was more fun to make than it is to watch.
The narrative flips and flops ruin the comedic flow.
If this is what a Hollywood liberal conscience looks like, it's a glib and useless thing.
This is grizzled, wild-eyed Clooney, not the suave sophisticate, and it's a nice change of pace.
The oddity of its subject matter can't quite find a suitable groove between weird believability and preposterous put-on.
A genuinely funny film packed with acting talent (...) well worth 90 minutes of anyone's time.
although Clooney's charm factor helps Cassady rise above the caricatures created by the rest of the cast. ... it won't necessarily elevate a mediocre film into one worth watching.
The Men Who Stare at Goats makes [True Lies] seem like a sensitive and balanced take on American/Middle Eastern relations.
The film aspires to the kind of quirk the Coen Brothers do so well. It delivers quirk in droves. It just stops short of the big yucks.
The slapstick is broad and the jokes are scattershot, but the satirical digs at the self-delusion directing much of American foreign policy are well aimed.
Una comedia satírica y anti militarista mucho menos graciosa de lo que prometía.
A series of barely tethered surrealistic shenanigans perpetrated by coasting A-listers.
A one-trick pony, or should I say one-trick goat, which relies heavily on slight variations of a running joke which gets stale pretty fast.
...an odd movie that falls in between the cracks of dramedy and military satire. While it has a fine cast and some terrific moments, this story of an experimental U.S. military unit with allegedly psychic powers never really gets off the ground.
Strained and uncomfortably buffonish. Everybody (except Clooney) is mugging when they should've just tried acting. Real satire draws blood. This one nudges you in the ribs.
Silly psychics make good characters but don't have enough to do
While this often hilariously haphazard film draws you in, you're ultimately left trying to discern fact from fiction.
Despite this offbeat film's shortcomings, one can't help but admire director Grant Heslov and his influential pal Clooney in bringing to the screen yet another timely reminder of war's ludicrousness and ultimate futility.
The film meanders in a nonsensical way and never reaches a satisfactory conclusion. It's got a Coen Brothers edge to it and will leave many viewers scratching their heads.
It's more like a series of amazing anecdotes and crazy adventures than a fully formed story
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