Goat (2026)
Animation Comedy Family Action English
Will, a small goat with big dreams, gets a once-in-a-lifetime shot to join the pros and play roarball – a high-intensity, co-ed, full-contact sport dominated by the fastest, fiercest animals in the world. Will's new teammates aren't thrilled about having a little goat on their roster, but Will is determined to revolutionize the sport and prove once and for all that 'smalls can ball'!
| Cast: | Caleb McLaughlin, Gabrielle Union, Stephen Curry, Aaron Pierre, Nicola Coughlan, David Harbour, Nick Kroll, Jenifer Lewis, Patton Oswalt, Jelly Roll, Jennifer Hudson |
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| Director: | Tyree Dillihay |
| Writer: | Aaron Buchsbaum, Teddy Riley, Nicolas Curcio, Peter Chiarelli |
| Editor: | Clare Knight |
| Camera: | John Clark |
All Guild Reviews of "Goat (2026)"
A Lukewarm Biryani of Animated-Underdog Tropes
Unlike animated classics that live large, GOAT simply isn’t designed to stay beyond its welcome. It clocks into the office of content-era entertainment and clocks out: nothing more, nothing less.
In terms of animated sports comedies featuring anthropomorphic animals, the bar is high. Surf’s Up (2007) set it nearly two decades ago; the mockumentary sports comedy about a young northern rockhopper penguin (voiced by a still-sane Shia LaBeouf) who dreams of becoming a professional surfer is unsurpassed in ingenuity, wit and underdog cinema (it’s one thing to make an animated film, it’s another to ‘shoot’ it like a live documentary). I’ll never forget the truth of the moment the protege discovers that his idol (Jeff Bridges) has been alive all along. The medium melts away, the cutesy humour pauses and out comes a classic genre trope. The heart doesn’t care if it’s not a live-action scene; emotions do not discriminate. Manufacturing them from scratch is arguably harder.
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