GOAT reminds Christian families to cheer for humility over hype

Packed with humour and heart, Sony’s latest animated film encourages kids to lift each other up, echoing biblical truths about humility, teamwork, and valuing everyone’s gifts

Film: GOAT

Age rating: PG

Runtime: 100 minutes

See this if you liked: Zootropolis 2, KPop Demon Hunters

Summary of the plot:

Will Harris is a literal goat but dreams of being the G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time) in roarball (aka animal basketball). When he is signed up as a wild card to his home team, he must overcome the giants in his way and bring the team together so that they can win the coveted Claw trophy and prove that you’re never too small to dream big.

Review

Sony Picture Animation has produced some of the millennium’s finest animated movies – Into the Spider-Verse, KPop Demon Hunters, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. It also released the Emoji Movie. GOAT is nowhere near the bottom of their list but it doesn’t quite reach the heights of the aforementioned animated giants either.

The concept is a lot of fun and one that awakens the Space Jam nostalgia in me. Animals playing basketball should be a slam dunk, but this movie never quite finds its feet, often dropping the ball on the way.

Caleb McLaughlin (Stranger Things) does a great job voicing Will Harris, a small goat, who dreams big of playing for his home team The Thorns. Struggling to pay his rent to a guineapig with an ever-growing family, it looks like Will’s dream is a fantasy. But after nearly beating the bad boy of the game, Mane Attraction (yep, you guessed it, a horse), he finds himself recruited onto his hometeam.

The animation is gorgeous

However, he faces some big obstacles, literally. The other players are a rhino (Archie), a Komodo dragon (Modo), an ostrich (Olivia), a giraffe (Lenny) and a panther (Jet). Jet is Will’s hero, a panther who has scored many times in the roarball games but has never …….