The Men Who Stare At Goats

George Clooney has a lot on his mind in the trippy but wildly uneven war comedy "The Men Who Stare At Goats."

Clooney is part of a secret group of elite soldiers trained to fight wars with mind powers. Clooney is in fine comic form, able to get laughs just by looking bug eyed at a cloud. And Jeff Bridges seems to be channeling "el duderino" in his role as the founder of the crack army team.

The Men Who Stare At Goats is often more clever than laugh out loud funny. It wrings a lot of smiles out of the audience when Clooney is trying to explain operation Jedi to a newspaper reporter played by Ewan McGregor (who knows a thing or two about jedis).
But it's essentially a one joke movie. Crazy elite soldiers are so devoted to their trippy philosophy that they don't notice what's right in front of them.
It's not as great as it could have been, but it's good enough.

The Men Who Stare At Goats: B