Common Sense Media Review
By Barbara Shulgasser-Parker
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
Clueless cop comedy; language, comic violence, drugs.
Parents Need to Know
Why Age 13+?
Any Positive Content?
Where to Watch
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Get the Goat
What's the Story?
Bruce (Edmilson Filho) is a good-natured, over-zealous local cop in a small rural Brazilian town where crime is nearly nonexistent and the other officers take a siesta in the office every day. When Bruce's diligence gets him in trouble, he's removed from security duty on a local festival and assigned to babysit the town's mascot, a friendly goat. The goat meanders into the truck of a drug dealer's henchman who's on his way to evil, big city Sao Paolo. Bruce has never been, but pursues the truck and stumbles into a major drug deal. The Sao Paolo police are setting up a sting to nab those dealers, but that's ruined by the incompetence and cowardice of a meek officer named Trindade (Matheus Nachtergaele), whose instincts for self preservation lead to the death of a fellow officer. Relegated to a remote desk job, he encounters Bruce and is infected with a fervor to find the goat and arrest the drug dealers. Mayhem ensues.
Is It Any Good?
For anyone but the youngest audience members, who are most likely to laugh at obvious gags and jokes based on incompetence, this movie will require a great deal of patience. Get the Goat mimics many comic cop buddy movies of yesteryear but doesn't develop or build on that basic genre in any significant way. If not for the language and references to drug dealing, the movie's sensibility matches the elementary school set's overall penchant for goofy humor perfectly.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about how seriously we're supposed to take the perilous situations in the movie. What are some clues that show the good guys are going to be safe in the face of supposed danger?
How does this movie use the template for suspenseful, true-crime movies to make comedy?
The movie doesn't talk about why selling drugs is a criminal activity. Do you think this makes it easier for the audience to laugh at the crime and the violence? Why or why not?
Movie Details
- On DVD or streaming : March 18, 2021
- Cast : Matheus Nachtergaele , Edmilson Filho , Marcondes Falcao , Evelyn Catro , Leticia Lima
- Director : Vitor Brandt
- Inclusion Information : Latino Movie Actor(s)
- Studio : Netflix
- Genre : Comedy
- Run time : 97 minutes
- MPAA rating :
- Last updated : July 27, 2022
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