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GOAT

Name: GOAT
Director: Tyree Dillihay
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Released: 2026-02-11
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 7.3

“You're never too small to dream big.”

7.3/ 1020261h 40mEnglish

AnimationComedyFamily

Directed by Tyree Dillihay

Movie Info

Director: Tyree Dillihay
Release Date: Feb 11, 2026
Runtime: 1h 40m
Language: English
Status: Released
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family

Budget

$90M

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Synopsis

In the gritty streets of Vineland, Will Harris is a small goat struggling to pay rent while working as a delivery driver for a local diner. His lifelong dream is to play for the Thorns—the team of his idol, Jett Fillmore—in a league called "roarball," a sport derived from basketball but mutated into something far more brutal: full-contact, co-ed, and played in arenas that double as death traps. The problem is, Will is a "small." And in this league, dominated by rhinos, bears, and apex predators, "smalls can't ball." But when a grainy video of Will draining a half-court three-pointer goes viral, the Thorns' cynical owner, Florence Everson, signs him as a publicity stunt. His new teammates—a rusty rhino, a despondent giraffe, a self-destructive Komodo dragon who breathes fire, and a fragile ostrich—want nothing to do with him. The league's MVP, a horse who calls himself "Mane Attraction," refuses to acknowledge Will as competition. To make matters worse, Will isn't just fighting for a spot on the roster; he's fighting for the soul of a team that has forgotten how to believe. This isn't just a sports movie. It's the story of someone with nothing to lose—trying to win everything.

Editor's Review

Watching this film, I finally understood why Stephen Curry has spent his entire career screaming, 'Smalls can ball.' Will Harris is a goat, sure, but that hunger in his eyes—that stubborn refusal to stop believing even when no one else does—it hit me right in the chest. Caleb McLaughlin's voice performance is so raw and sincere that every hesitation, every leap Will takes, burrows into your soul. And then there's Modo, voiced by Nick Kroll—a Komodo dragon who breathes fire and casually threatens to eat himself. (Spoiler: he actually tries.) The Boston Herald gave this movie 1.5 stars. Critics called it 'predictable' and 'saccharine.' They're not wrong. But sometimes predictability is a virtue. Because in real life, good things happen the same way every time: stubbornly, repeatedly, relentlessly. When Florence—voiced by the incomparable Jenifer Lewis—looks at Will in the final act and says, 'You're not just a small goat. You're the biggest man in this league,' three theaters full of people erupted in applause. Yes, this movie is an 'Air Bud' clone. Yes, you see every beat coming from a mile away. But sometimes what you need most is a story about a goat who refuses to stop believing. Even when everyone else has.