The trouble with this film is that the non-fiction book on which it's based is so hilariously absurd in the first place that any attempt to make a dramatisation seems almost redundant from the off. When the truth is much stranger than fiction, why bother making stuff up? The fictionalised part (the road-trip through Iraq) is the weak link - just flimsy padding on which to rest the flashbacks. The film has a great cast, and is occasionally funny, but most of it just seems inconsequential.

- worth experiencing

Negative criticism about military. For diffent version please check "Starship Tropper I and 3"

It's smugness -- unleavened by wit -- that makes Goats so offensive.

Unfulfilled potential.

The filmmakers failed to find an adequate way of adapting the source material to the screen, despite the impressive cast. The rather clunky effort contains too few genuinely amusing moments, and the rudimentary narrative is incapable of really maintaining interest.

nice satire, some parts were hilarious, but it lost it's direction towards the end and became a little boring and predictable

This is a film that doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up ... A satire, a political documentary, a comedy, a humerous insight. Its a shame, because I enjoyed it, but was left wondering what it was for; what it was trying to say. With clearer direction it would have been fantastic. Great performances all round, expecially from the goat, and in truth, I could watch Bridges, Clooney and Spacey all day and not really worry whether I was truly understanding the point of the movie

The world needs more war satires, and this film needs more love.

the concept is so weird that it doesn't really know where to go, and consequently the third act is pretty unfulfilling. the movie doesn't successfully walk the line between satirizing and glorifying its subject, it just unevenly flip-flops, leaving the audience not really believing either side. but there are some pretty hilarious things in it, mostly due to some great comic acting by bridges.