groups

Here's Ty Burr funny review of "Goats". It wasn't all bad, he says, there are some great moments:

"Bridges is cast as New Earth Army mastermind Bill Django, a ponytailed peacenik fox let loose in the Pentagon henhouse. The richest, most weirdly funny scenes in “The Men Who Stare at Goats’’ are the flashbacks to the secret unit’s training sessions, in which recruits Clooney (with long hair about as convincing as McGregor’s accent), Stephen Root, and others let their inner pagans loose, mastering the “sparkly eyes technique’’ and dancing about like teenage girls at a Grateful Dead concert.

Django’s shamanistic maxims pepper the script like hilarious smart bombs - “We must become the first superpower with super powers,’’ “Be all you can be,’’ “The US Army has no alternative but to be wonderful.’’ When Cassady successfully deploys a small plastic widget that “can hurt you a hundred different ways’’ (it looks like an ice scraper), the movie finds its groove: the place where America’s spiritual yearnings and killer instincts meet and intertwine."

I love the ads I've seen. I've heard one very positive review on a Boston TV station.

Saw it yesterday with my husband and we enjoyed it. Everyone in the theater was laughing all throughout the film. There were many odd, bizarre yet funny scenes. Like the conversation that McGregor had with Clooney about Jedi Warriors and McGregor said he didn't know what that meant! And yes Clooney demonstrating all these silly-looking skills like Sparkly Eyes with absolute conviction and McGregor being in a constant state of WTF. Plus that weapon that looked like you could put furniture together with it. The movie is full of these oddball moments.

My husband was stationed at Fort Bragg and much of the story took place there so he could relate to the military irony and humor. He was also quick to notice that Keven Spacey's character was one of the few who didn't have jump wings on his uniform.