The Men Who Stare at Goats, so they say, is about a highly top secret U.S. training program for psychic-minded soldiers.

There's a good cast of stars, but it features George Clooney, who plays Lyn Cassidy, a former special ops soldier who claims to have psychic powers.

He's been recalled back to Iraq for a special mission inside the war zone.

This is really something different, with lots of laughs and funny things you should enjoy.

I sure did.

The Men Who Stare at Goats is a light-weight anti-war comedy with a fictional plot about the all-too-real efforts by the U.S. military to train psychic warriors.

George Clooney is hilarious as the rather intense Lyn Cassidy, a trainee in the New Earth Army.

This absurdist comedy has enough Jedi and Star Wars references to make even Ewan McGregor cringe as he follows Clooney's character to Iraq to get the whole story.

May the farce be with you!

The Men Who Stare at Goats has a strange title, with a bizarre story along the same line.

The movie is very odd,but it gets kicks from the weird premise and moves along until things get bogged down in the third act.

This is when the momentum starts to sag as a more direct focus on narrative undermines some of the cleverness and humor.

In the end, the movie begins to pay more attention to plot and, when it does, the wit and dark comedy slip away.

This tale is a bland one; there never was much story there except for the curious fact that the military tried to teach men to kill goats by staring at them.