Who’s in it?: George Clooney (Ocean’s 11), Ewan McGregor (Revenge of the Sith), Jeff Bridges (The Big Lebowski) and Kevin Spacey (The Usual Suspects)

In this one, Ewan McGregor plays a reporter trying to do a story on a psychic spy (Clooney), who prefers to call himself a Jedi.  Get it?  Cuz Ewan played Obi Wan?… Well in The Men Who Stare at Goats, he spends nearly this entire movie trying to prove that Clooney is full of crap and Jedis don’t exist.  It’s funny because most of the time he has this smug look like, it’s all part of the joke.

This is the real beauty and perhaps the downfall of this movie. It’s great if you’re in on the joke but the filmmakers throw so much at the audience, they are only going to catch so much.

There really is some funny stuff in this movie. Jeff Bridges is awesome as a hippie government spook who wants to train the best and brightest in the ways of the force.  Which means they sit around, smoke dope and do yoga.  It’s all done in flashbacks from different points of view and you never really know what’s true and what’s a part of some drug induced hallucination.

Kevin Spacey has some good scenes as a psychic spy that can actually see the future as opposed to the rest of the idiots who have just done enough acid and shrooms that they are convinced they can run through walls and kill goats with their minds.

Of course there are problems that come with the craziness.  There are a few times where it seems to drag and it gets a little cloudy as to what is really going on.  There’s a few plot twists that fall flat, but otherwise it generates a few laughs. As cool as Clooney is most of the time, he is at his best when he is playing jackass characters like in “O Brother Where Art Thou?” and “Burn After Reading”.

7/10