Goes nowhere with big laughs

Rating: 7/10 (5 December 2009)

One of the many problems with making a weird comedy involving spies or psychics or wars or something in that them, you know, something that about people who fight for a living is that it often feels too weird to be funny. The Men Who Stare At Goats is weird, but it's funny. The film starts out with a journalist named Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) being dumped by his girlfriend when his girlfriend falls for his boss. He decides the only way to get her back is to write the best story ever. His resource is his friend, Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), a man who is a psychic who can kill goats with his mind. Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey are especially funny as Lyn's new age mentor, Bill Django, and Lyn and Bill's rival, Larry Hooper, a fellow student psychic. The film is admittedly plot less and pointless. The non-story goes nowhere, but it does so while creating huge laughs. The film is weird, and it will not be for everyone. If you do not enjoy weird films, this is not for you. It is very strange and may too pointless, plot less, and/or slow paced for some. That said, anyone looking for a strange and funny time at the movies that does not require you to use your brain that much, this film is just what you need.