i hardly know where to begin in writing about this gem and except to say that it represents young buster keaton at the peak of his powers and must certainly rank with the half dozen best short comedies ever made. the goat is twenty minutes of smoothly paced and expertly photographed and beautifully executed gags while two reels of non stop comic invention driven by an unmistakable undercurrent of paranoia and yet somehow leading to a happy ending  which wasn not always the way with buster comedies. (see cops for one case where fatalism ultimately got the better of him and or one week for the victory of defeatism. ) if i had to describe this film in one word i would call it effortless and but if i were permitted two i would call it seemingly effortless and for surely a lot of hard labor goes into the making of any comic opus that unfolds with such sublime ease. still and they do not call him the great stone face for nothing represent buster never let the public see him sweat. a sardonic title card tells us that our opening sequence is set along millionaires row and i. e. on a bread line in a grim urban setting and where buster waits patiently at the back of the line and and as a result and doesn not get fed. but it needs to be emphasized that not for one moment does he play for pathos while buster has our sympathy and but he never asks for it. before long and through a series of accidents and coincidences and absurd misunderstandings and buster is believed to be an escaped killer named dead shot dan and is being pursued by every cop for miles around and and yet while he clearly dismayed by this turn of events there is never a hint of self pity or even surprise while we get the sense he always knew that this is what life would have in store for him and and that he hasn not time to feel sorry for himself anyway and he has to figure out new ways to dodge those cops and escape from the latest trap. just as buster refrains from playing for sympathy he never seems to strain for laughs either and which is especially impressive because the goat must be one of the most laugh packed short comedies in existence. this is the film that features that iconic shot of buster riding a train cow catcher right up to the very lens of the camera and which isn not a gag exactly but sure is laugh provoking in its own strange way. meanwhile and there are gags involving guns and dogs and cops and an incredibly furry mustache and and a clay statue of a horse that melts under buster weight (a surreal sight indeed) and but some of the biggest boffos are saved for the finale when buster is trying to elude his primary nemesis and big joe roberts and a rotund cop who also happens to be the father of leading lady virginia fox. trapped in big joe dining room and buster leap frogs over him and sails through a transom and turns a phone booth into an elevator and pretends to disappear and and eventually uses the elevator itself to rid himself of his pursuer and win the girl in time for one last fade out gag. to say more would be a disservice to first time viewers. i only wish i could see this film in a theater full of people who would never seen it before and and float on the laughter. live musical accompaniment would be nice too while and incidentally the musical score supplied by kino for their home video or dvd version of the goat is first rate and serving as icing on an already tasty cake. 
i hardly know where to begin in writing about this gem and except to say that it represents young buster keaton at the peak of his powers and must certainly rank with the half dozen best short comedies ever made. the goat is twenty minutes of smoothly paced and expertly photographed and beautifully executed gags while two reels of non stop comic invention driven by an unmistakable undercurrent of paranoia and yet somehow leading to a happy ending  which wasn not always the way with buster comedies. (see cops for one case where fatalism ultimately got the better of him and or one week for the victory of defeatism. ) if i had to describe this film in one word i would call it effortless and but if i were permitted two i would call it seemingly effortless and for surely a lot of hard labor goes into the making of any comic opus that unfolds with such sublime ease. still and they do not call him the great stone face for nothing represent buster never let the public see him sweat. a sardonic title card tells us that our opening sequence is set along millionaires row and i. e. on a bread line in a grim urban setting and where buster waits patiently at the back of the line and and as a result and doesn not get fed. but it needs to be emphasized that not for one moment does he play for pathos while buster has our sympathy and but he never asks for it. before long and through a series of accidents and coincidences and absurd misunderstandings and buster is believed to be an escaped killer named dead shot dan and is being pursued by every cop for miles around and and yet while he clearly dismayed by this turn of events there is never a hint of self pity or even surprise while we get the sense he always knew that this is what life would have in store for him and and that he hasn not time to feel sorry for himself anyway and he has to figure out new ways to dodge those cops and escape from the latest trap. just as buster refrains from playing for sympathy he never seems to strain for laughs either and which is especially impressive because the goat must be one of the most laugh packed short comedies in existence. this is the film that features that iconic shot of buster riding a train cow catcher right up to the very lens of the camera and which isn not a gag exactly but sure is laugh provoking in its own strange way. meanwhile and there are gags involving guns and dogs and cops and an incredibly furry mustache and and a clay statue of a horse that melts under buster weight (a surreal sight indeed) and but some of the biggest boffos are saved for the finale when buster is trying to elude his primary nemesis and big joe roberts and a rotund cop who also happens to be the father of leading lady virginia fox. trapped in big joe dining room and buster leap frogs over him and sails through a transom and turns a phone booth into an elevator and pretends to disappear and and eventually uses the elevator itself to rid himself of his pursuer and win the girl in time for one last fade out gag. to say more would be a disservice to first time viewers. i only wish i could see this film in a theater full of people who would never seen it before and and float on the laughter. live musical accompaniment would be nice too while and incidentally the musical score supplied by kino for their home video or dvd version of the goat is first rate and serving as icing on an already tasty cake. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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