Actors are excellent, but the movie somehow missed me...

This would be a lot better if it had even one female character - I'm not even sure if Mader has lines.

has it's share of laughs.....

The Men Who Stare At Goats is a bit of a misfire. The only thing I got out of this was the countless Star War references concerning Ewan McGregor.

I don't really know what to say about this. It wasn't a bad movie but it didn't really make me feel anything towards it. I let out a couple of "heh's" from time to time but it didn't genuinely make me laugh. It was just a run of the mill story exactly about what you think it's going to be. I can't really even conjure up a memorable moment, all I can remember is thinking it wasn't that bad. A couple behind me walked out half way through so it's obviously not for everyone. Jeff Bridges was good?

A whole bunch of stars arenīt a garantie for a good movie. "The Men who stare at goats" is another proof for this. There are some really funny moments, but the whole story is too abstruse, so I was missing a real plot. But if thereīs one reason to watch this movie, itīs Jeff Bridges as weird love&peace drill instructor. Apart from this nothing special at all.

Clever movie

A film so full of goofy charm that the whole thing comes off rather endearing.

incredible weak

Very funny in places, but overall lacking in direction. Very forgettable.

Other than McGregor, it's consistently entertaining across the board in pretty much every way.

Starts off with a pretty funny concept, gets strangely dark, and then just ends strange. There are some pretty great moments, but a lot of the pieces don't really feel like they fit together.

Reasonably fun but it seems to be alternating between 2nd and 3rd gear, never getting into a groove. At times it feels aimless and disorganized but there are enough funny moments to make it worthwhile.

Fantastic! And what a cast: Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges and a cameo for Robert T2000 Patrick :)

A little bit retarded but, oddly, watchable enough.

Funny as h*ll and bl**dy vague. Kept my attention during the whole movie.

The cast is having a better time than the audience and some of the great actors in this movie are really underused (Spacey, Bridges). Kind of funny, but unfulfilling to its audience.

It's a bit narratively thin and Ewan McGregor's American accent is kind of terrible, but it's buoyed by plenty of amusing moments from scene to scene. It's interesting (and a bit depressing) how the Iraq War has become such a cultural constant that it's now fair game to make comedies about it.

what a waste of great talents!

With such a fine cast and a decent premise it botched completely. I was only mildly entertained in the Bridges' psi corps initiation sequence.

They were really trying to be funny, but it didn't work out. Just few amusing moments. Good acting though.

It does feel like The Informant in some ways, like someone else said but I liked this a lot more. Maybe it's because I understood the jokes more, and I understood what they were talking about more often. I love the cast here and without them this would be worse. The problem is that it goes for pretty long stretches without a laugh (but has some great ones) and this movie isn't the most emotional thing ever so you're left with a few too many parts where you feel nothing. Still, a good flick.

Worth it just for Kevin Spacey's comedic moments, this film was surprisingly enjoyable despite the negative hype. A bit reminiscent of Burn After Reading, especially George Clooney, this film was overall quite silly, but that only adds to its appeal. If you can't take this movie seriously, that's probably a good thing.

A misdirected journey that, while periodically humorous, is a consistent disappointment. The amusing bits are sparse, which makes it impossible for the leads, McGregor and Clooney, to keep this troubled narrative alive. Watching this film I found myself asking why I was being taken through this particular series of events. What was this film trying to say? I don't think the filmmakers really knew, and a string of anecdotes linked together with a paper thin narrative isn't really an answer.

You'll find a mildly amusing story in there somewhere, yet I found it very boring and just occasionally funny. It's an effort to sit through, which is why I took some 5 minute naps during the film; A writer's lazyness can have quite an effect on me.

LYN: "Every night I would dream about that goat, it's mouth opening and closing but without making a sound..." BOB: "The silence of the goats." Funny at some parts.

Not that interesting as I thought it would be. Not as funny too. It has a message, but at some moments you really have to overanalyze it, which takes the fluency, which is already not that great, away.

Viewed as a whole its really not that good but there are individual scenes that works really well, as does the cast all though some seem a bit type-cased.

For the most part this movie is superbly funny in it's sheer absurdity. Having seen the documentary this is based on, Crazy Rulers of the World, I knew what was fiction and what wasn't (and you'll be suprised by how much isn't fake). However the film's narrative nose-dives during the final act and the final 5 minutes completely fall apart. Still it has some fantastic humour in it that is grounded in reality, believe it or not.

Has its moments, but director apprently couldnt manage to use those moments properly. I laughed a few times because acting was good.

has great potential, but never quite pulls through. neither good nor bad, though quite amusing.

Totally preposterous premise which kept me saying could the Army really be that stupid: yes, no, no, yes, yes, no, yes--and of course we don't really know which because we were told at the beginning that some of it is true, so it sort of ended up being like this run on sentence, a lot of statements jammed up against each other to the point of loosing any point they might have originally intended, but in the end no one really cares because the "silence of the goats" was the only joke that hadn't

The premise seemed interesting but that's all this movie ultimately was: an interesting premise. The cast is great but they haven't got much to work with.

It's fun, though ridiculous fun. And the humor's often very subtle. But these things make the film special and me satisfied.

The truly funny part of this movie is imagining the truth that could have possibly inspired it. Past that, the jokes are largely small, with very little character pay-off despite a million quirky characters to play with. While enjoyable, I can't help but compare it to The Informant, 2009's other so-funny-you-won't-believe-its-true movie. And in that comparison, its the weaker of the two. Fun movie that suffered from a lot of unused potential.

It's certainly not bad but its mainly funny in a I-see-what-you-did there way. Mainly I was laughing at people telling Ewan McGregor he could be a Jedi. He is! I sat through all three of those films dammit.

For a movie with such an amazing cast, the final result sure felt a bit underwhelming. One of those movies where essentially nothing of consequence happens. Normally, that doesn't have to be a problem, but apart from some individually entertaining scenes there just isn't any meaty content to chew on.

11/2/2009 david

amazing potential ruined by the unproven claims of cassady, it could have been a genre-less masterpiece, but instead is riddled with dead weight. bridges, clooney, and mcgregor do a great job, but the script could have used a great workover.

An unusual film that address the occult in a way that many people may experience it, with a mixture of disbelief & humor. That which is true can also be absurd.