The Man that stare at Goats começa dando o mote ao filme: o General Putkin corre em direcção à parede e… sim, todos vimos o trailer!
É um filme com humor, situações e diálogos que fazem rir mas não “partir a rir”. Seguem-se alguns desses momentos:
GUS LACEY: “Lately, I’ve been watching the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland. [...] It’s the ghost of a dinosaur.”
BOB: “What other powers did you practise?”
LYN CASSADY: “Invisibility.”
BOB: “Invisibility?”
LYN CASSADY: “Yup. That was Level Three.”
BOB: “Actual invisibility?”
LYN CASSADY: “Well…yeah, that was the goal. But after a while we adapted it to just finding a way of not being seen. When you understand the, the linkage between observation and reality, you learn to dance with invisibility.”
“The Jedi Warrior will follow in the footsteps of the great Imagineers of the past – Jesus Christ, Lao Tse Tung, Walt Disney…” (New Earth Army Manual)
LYN CASSADY:” Let’s say we have no choice but to fight with these men. Then we use visual aesthetics to instill psychically in the enemy a disincentive to attack.”
BOB: “What do you mean?”
LYN CASSADY: “Okay, you lock eyes with one of them, you go into a monotone and you say “No, I’m not going to attack you.” You totally relax your body and your voice. And then you rip out one of his eyeballs.”
LYN CASSADY: “The Dim Mak. The Quivering Palm. The Death Touch. It’s like this legendary, martial arts move. It was forbidden in the New Earth Army. Larry had got it from a mail-order book.”
BOB: “What does the Death Touch do?”
LYN CASSADY: “It kills you Bob. With one touch.”
BOB: “Jesus.”
LYN CASSADY: “There’s a story that Wong Wifu, great Chinese martial artist, had a fight with some guy and had him beat when the guy gave him this light tap, and Wong looked at him and the guy just nodded. That was it. He’d given him the death touch and Wong died.”
BOB: “Then and there?”
LYN CASSADY: “No. Eighteen years later. That’s the weird thing with Dim Mak – you never know when it’s going to take effect.”
E para terminar com uma referência do filme e algum humor à mistura:
LYN CASSADY: ”Different Jedi had different techniques. [...] Well, I find drinking helps. Also if I’m listening to classic rock music. [...] I like Boston. Boston usually works.”

