Animated anthropomorphic-animal family comedy GOAT (now streaming on VOD platforms like Amazon Prime Video) puns on the modern parlance of sports, casting an actual literal goat as the Greatest Of All Time. Except he’s not the greatest, and isn’t likely to be, considering he’s an undersized underdog and all that. So maybe the movie isn’t quite conceptually tight – but it was a rock-solid draw, earning a couple-hundred million bucks during the gap between Zootopia 2 and Hoppers. It seems families are happy to see perfectly average, acceptable stuff like GOAT in theaters, underscoring the need for studios to better cater to the leave-the-house-to-see-a-movie crowd. Because we can’t just stay home all the time, right? Even if a movie’s a bit stubborn about breaking new ground.
GOAT: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?
The Gist: In the reality of GOAT exists a game
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