Psychic spies. Jedi warriors. Clooney delivers big time, but the story could have been better.
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11/26/09
The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)
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Reviews Counted:163
Fresh:88
Rotten:75
Average Rating:5.8/10
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.
Genre: Comedies
US Box Office: $27,680,089
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
Reviews for The Men Who Stare at Goats
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
I walked out feeling as if it had been enjoyable, even though the word on my lips was, 'Huh?'
11/12/09
A likable little movie that feels more indie than most indies, isn't afraid to shamble along, and, sadly, seems oblivious to the fact that it's in need of a bigger ending.
11/12/09
...Clooney is tongue in cheek convincing.
11/11/09
Whatever George Clooney and his friends are smoking, could they please pass some of it around? We're confused and we need it.
11/11/09
Maybe it is just easier to laugh at things that happened decades ago, but the contemporary story never attains the same power as the flashbacks.
11/11/09
A silly movie that puts the loony in Clooney and the Ewww in Ewan
11/10/09
Heslov thinks he's making a Coen Brothers movie, so Clooney and especially Bridges continuously play up how "off" they are, but the source material didn't need any help.
11/09/09
gets by on its goofy, absurdist charm and gonzo characters without ever making a significant impact
11/09/09
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