GOAT (2026)
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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.
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... Will Harris (voice)
... Jett Fillmore (voice)
... Lenny Williamson (voice)
... Mane Attraction (voice)
... Olivia Burke (voice)
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The “Thorns” aren’t doing so well in the “Roarball” league despite the presence of the legendary leopard “Jet” so when owner “Flo” sees a video of the feisty young goat “Will” giving one of the sport’s other celebrities “Mane” a run for his money, she decides to sign him up. It’s a combination of American football and basketball; it’s quickly paced and occasionally violent so needless to say captain “Jet” isn’t impressed with their diminutive and attitudinal young signing. Initially, the whole team are fairly disdainful of their new buddy and she leaves him on the bench, but with the team still struggling maybe it’s time to let him try to prove his worth? This is all fairly procedural stuff and I didn’t love the style of animation - it seemed a little jittery to me and the perspective looked a bit all over the place at times as the story touches predictably on elements of adulation, aspiration, team playing, trust and even some good old greed as it marches along for I felt was quite a long hundred minutes. Aside from the goat and the leopard, there isn’t really much effort put into characterising the other team mates and it could have had more fun with aspects of just how ruthless and venal the business of global sport can be, win or lose, which could have added a bit of depth to it. It’s watchable enough and the plucky "Will" is quite engaging, but it's nothing special.
Director:
Writer:
Airin Budiman (Story Artist)
Keely Propp (Head of Story)
James W. Suhr (Story Artist)
Nicolas Curcio (Screenstory)
Peter Chiarelli (Screenstory)
Aaron Buchsbaum (Screenplay)
Teddy Riley (Screenplay)
Chris Tougas (Book)
Ian Higginbotham (Story Artist)
Matthew Bordenave (Story Artist)
Chase Conley (Story Artist)
Jarelle Dampier (Story Artist)
Yingzhong Hu (Story Artist)
Benjamin Jordan Lee (Story Artist)
Max Perkins (Story Artist)
Steve Walker (Story Artist)
Melody Wang (Story Artist)
Felix Yang (Story Artist)
Joshua E. Perez (Story Coordinator)
Release Date:
2026-02-11
Run Time:
100 min
MMPA Rating:
PG
Reviews of
GOAT
The “Thorns” aren’t doing so well in the “Roarball” league despite the presence of the legendary leopard “Jet” so when owner “Flo” sees a video of the feisty young goat “Will” giving one of the sport’s other celebrities “Mane” a run for his money, she decides to sign him up. It’s a combination of American football and basketball; it’s quickly paced and occasionally violent so needless to say captain “Jet” isn’t impressed with their diminutive and attitudinal young signing. Initially, the whole team are fairly disdainful of their new buddy and she leaves him on the bench, but with the team still struggling maybe it’s time to let him try to prove his worth? This is all fairly procedural stuff and I didn’t love the style of animation - it seemed a little jittery to me and the perspective looked a bit all over the place at times as the story touches predictably on elements of adulation, aspiration, team playing, trust and even some good old greed as it marches along for I felt was quite a long hundred minutes. Aside from the goat and the leopard, there isn’t really much effort put into characterising the other team mates and it could have had more fun with aspects of just how ruthless and venal the business of global sport can be, win or lose, which could have added a bit of depth to it. It’s watchable enough and the plucky "Will" is quite engaging, but it's nothing special.
Full review: https://movieswetextedabout.com/goat-movie-review-caleb-mclaughlin-and-gabrielle-union-shine-in-a-visually-stunning-underdog-tale/
Rating: B-
"GOAT doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it manages to soar through vibrant technical execution and a palpable emotional chemistry between its leads. It’s a film that shines brightest when it focuses on Will’s personal growth and Jett’s necessary redemption, even when it stumbles over expository dialogue or a predictability that cools the impact of certain twists. It’s an inspiring tribute to all those who daydream in small contexts, reminding us that true greatness isn’t measured by someone’s height, but by the indomitable courage of those who refuse to accept the limits others have placed upon them."
I am very split on this movie. It's not bad, but also nothing special.
First off:
The visuals and character designs are lovely! Like several recent Sony Animations movies, this one was visually really nice and the animations were nice once you get used to the "stuttering" animations style. (similar to "Supa Team 4" or the combat scenes from "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish."
The general story is the really basic "underdog", or, undergoat story including all of it's tropes and stereotypes: "person with the wrong size/race/species/upbringing wants to do skill x, everyone laughs about them, until they show them they're awesome at it". Done for every sport, every craft, etc.
That's not bad, per se. The problem for me is mainly the movie's first half: You know how these movies always have that one angry, asshole person that tells the protagonist they're never gonna make it, that never takes them for serious? Like Tigress in Kung Fu panda, and every "rival" in underdog movies?
Officially that's "Jett" in this movie. But factually it's EVERYONE in the first half, except the main character's "best friends".
And while having ONE doubting ass can be a cool thing to overcome, having basically a whole team's personalities reduced to "you don't care about this guy" made me really wonder if the movie will feature any non-assholes at all.
AS SOON as the second half starts, the moment where the protagonist finally shows off his skills and the characters suddenly get actual personality, the whole movie becomes MUCH better.
Sadly this happens far too late, and instead of showing so long-winded how nobody thinks he can do it, they should've cut that short and instead used the free time to draw out the actual emotional scenes longer. Because THOSE have potential and show much more personality, but one very important emotional part is even cut short into a montage, and that's just...really a pity.
In addition, based on the German dub, the movie heavily relies on modern "youth slang". To me this felt very, well, "cringe". But I accept that I'm most likely not the target audience and I'm willing to take a seat and accept that it's a thing of the current time which I'm not a part of anymore, so, I won't judge that harshly. 😅
Oh, also, gods, SO many product placements! I'm used to Xperia phones in Sony movies, but damn, phones, cars, clothes, I hate product placement in movies, and here several camera shots were very obviously done just to show off brand logos.
So, yeah. The movie is fine. It gets much better once the characters finally show personality and get emotional. This should happen much earlier and deeper, because it was when the movie was its strongest.
The story combines every single underdog-movie trope and features every underdog character stereotype. If you're fine with that, I'd say, watch the movie for its cool visuals. Not necessarily in an expensive cinema, though.
All that said: The diner sheep is a lovely motherly figure, I like her. Modo is fucked up in all the best ways possible.
And the aardwolf girl Hannah is the cutest, coolest, most awesome character, and I want more of her! ❤️
Sony Pictures Animation is still the "goat" of making stylized animated movies, because this one was extremely entertaining! On the surface, it feels like a typical underdog movie-small protagonist tries to prove himself, a major team gives him a position, they all win-it's pretty much laid out there from the start. But that's where things change. You see, once the main character of Goat, Will Harris, joins the Thorns, his favorite roarball team (yes, that's what they call basketball in this movie), it stops being about Will trying to prove to his team he is a great addition and starts being more about teamwork. That is what separates Goat from other underdog sports movies, and what makes it so entertaining from start to finish. The animation, of course, is really awesome, it's very funny, has lots of emotion, and a stellar voice cast. Oh, and the soundtrack is lit. Goat is definitely gonna be one of my favorite movies of this year and maybe in general. Who knows?
Cast & Crew of
GOAT
Cast
... Will Harris (voice)
... Jett Fillmore (voice)
... Lenny Williamson (voice)
... Mane Attraction (voice)
... Olivia Burke (voice)
... Archie Everhardt (voice)
... Modo Olachenko (voice)
... Flo Everson (voice)
... Dennis Cooper (voice)
... Grizz (voice)
... Louise Harris (voice)
... Hannah (voice)
... Daryl (voice)
... Chuck (voice)
... Rusty (voice)
... Frank (voice)
... Carol the Whiskers Diner Manager (voice)
... Adi & Ari Everhardt (voice)
... Theo (voice)
... Gerald (voice)
... Propp and Dawson - Shivers Polar Bears (voice)
... Sneaky (voice)
... Game Announcer (voice)
... Magma Referee Zebra (voice)
... Kouyate - Shadows Crocodile (voice)
... Vineland Reporter Cheetah (voice)
... Daskas - Shadows Gorilla (voice)
... Rosette - Shadows Bull (voice)
... Vineland Zebra / Vineland Parrot (voice)
... Director Parrot (voice)
... Badger Doctor / Press Zebra (voice)
... Little Will Harris (voice)
... Vineland Bunny / Press Badger 1 (voice)
... Pete the Diner Patron (voice)
... Sunken City Referee Parrot (voice)
... Press Badger 2 / Press Bull (voice)
... Komodo Dragon Kid / Bunny Kid / Gerbil Kid (voice)
... Frank's Wife / Modo Fan Gazelle / Bunny Mom (voice)
... Moe the Diner Pig / Press Bear / Diner Parrot (voice)
... P-Dogg / Vineland Deer (voice)
... Elephant Kid / Gerbil Kid (voice)
... Penguin Kid / Gerbil Kid (voice)
... Boogie (voice)
... Vineland Elephant (voice)
... Maximus the VO Bunny (voice)
... Modo Fan Bison / Press Deer (voice)
... Cockroach / Press Cheetah (voice)
... Press Gazelle / Penguin Mom (voice)
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Crew
... Director
... Executive Producer
... Executive Producer
... Producer
... Producer
... Producer
... Producer
... Producer
... Co-Producer
... Co-Director
... Editor
... Matte Painter
... Director of Photography
... Original Music Composer
... Songs
... Songs
... Songs
... Songs
... Songs
... Songs
... Songs
... Songs
... Songs
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... Songs
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... Songs
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... Songs
... Songs
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... Production Manager
... Lighting Manager
... Production Manager
... Post-Production Manager
... Production Supervisor
... Character Designer
... Storyboard Artist
... Story Artist
... Storyboard Artist
... Visual Development
... Storyboard Artist
... Head of Story
... VFX Artist
... Character Designer
... Character Designer
... Story Artist
... Visual Development
... Sound Designer
... Recording Supervision
... Sound Designer
... Sound Designer
... Sound Designer
... Sound Engineer
... Sound Designer
... Supervising Sound Editor
... ADR Mixer
... Dialogue Editor
... Foley Supervisor
... Sound Designer
... Recording Supervision
... Recording Supervision
... Foley Editor
... Lead Animator
... Animation
... Animation
... Animation
... Animation
... Lead Animator
... Lighting Artist
... Compositing Artist
... Animation
... Animation
... Lead Animator
... Animation
... Lead Animator
... Animation
... Animation
... Animation
... Animation
... Animation
... Lead Animator
... Animation
... Animation
... Animation
... Animation
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... Animation
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... Animation
... Associate Editor
... Finishing Producer
... Assistant Editor
... First Assistant Editor
... Assistant Editor
... Colorist
... Production Coordinator
... Production Coordinator
... Production Coordinator
... Production Manager
... Production Manager
... Finance
... Finance
... Publicist
... Production Coordinator
... Software Engineer
... Development Producer
... Orchestrator
... Music Editor
... Music Editor
... Scoring Mixer
... Vocals
... Executive Music Producer
... Vocals
... Orchestrator
... Additional Music
... Orchestrator
... Music Supervisor
... Scoring Mixer
... Compositor
... Rigging Supervisor
... Lighting Artist
... Compositing Artist
... Lighting Artist
... Compositing Artist
... Lighting Director
... Compositing Artist
... Digital Compositor
... Lighting Artist
... Compositing Artist
... Compositor
... Visual Effects Coordinator
... Lighting Artist
... Compositing Artist
... Modeling
... Modeling
... Lighting Artist
... Compositing Artist
... Software Engineer
... Lighting Artist
... Lighting Director
... Compositor
... Lighting Artist
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... Lighting Director
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... Digital Compositor
... Software Engineer
... Lighting Artist
... Compositing Artist
... Visual Effects
... Screenstory
... Screenstory
... Screenplay
... Screenplay
... Book
... Story Artist
... Foley Artist
... Foley Artist
... Songs
... Art Direction
... Casting
... Production Design
... Costume Design
... Co-Producer
... Visual Effects Supervisor
... Head of Animation
... Production Manager
... Digital Producer
... Digital Producer
... Supervising Animator
... Supervising Animator
... Supervising Animator
... Supervising Animator
... Supervising Animator
... CG Supervisor
... CG Supervisor
... CG Supervisor
... CG Supervisor
... CG Supervisor
... CG Supervisor
... CG Supervisor
... Thanks
... Thanks
... Thanks
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... Thanks
... Thanks
... Thanks
... Sound Re-Recording Mixer
... Sound Re-Recording Mixer
... Sound Designer
... Sound Effects Editor
... ADR Supervisor
... Foley Mixer
... ADR Voice Casting
... Effects Supervisor
... Modelling Supervisor
... Associate Editor
... Assistant Editor
... Assistant Editor
... Associate Editor
... Visual Development
... Visual Development
... Visual Development
... Visual Development
... Visual Development
... Visual Development
... Visual Development
... Graphic Designer
... Character Designer
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... Story Artist
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... Story Artist
... Story Artist
... Animation
... Orchestrator
... Orchestrator
... Orchestrator
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... Orchestrator
... Orchestrator
... Conductor
... Post Production Supervisor
... Production Accountant
... Production Accountant
... Animation
... Layout Supervisor
... Story Coordinator
... Songs
... Songs
... Songs
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