The Bad Guys

Published May 7, 2022

Film info

Title The Bad Guys
Director Pierre Perifel
Year 2022
Run time 1hr 40m
Genres Action, Crime, Animation, Comedy, Family
Tagline Good is no fun at all

Never have there been five friends as infamous as The Bad Guys - dashing pickpocket Mr. Wolf, seen-it-all safecracker Mr. Snake, chill master-of-disguise Mr. Shark, short-fused muscle Mr. Piranha, and sharptongued expert hacker Ms. Tarantula, aka Webs. But when, after years of countless heists and being the world's most-wanted villains, the gang is finally caught, Mr. Wolf brokers a deal (that he has no intention of keeping) to save them all from prison: The Bad Guys will go good.

Live blog

Time	Comment
0:29	OMG, the funky music is over the Universal logo. No boom boom!
4:01	“Imagine Houdini but with no arms.”
9:02	“Yea, we may be bad, but we’re so good at it.
12:38	Did she just say Goodest Citizen?
15:06	Richard Ayoade as a guinea pig, obvs.
23:57	“The pig is on the move.”
32:37	Rupert Marmalade III. Adorable.
38:55	Tsunami of guinea pigs!
50:56	I mean, look, I know it’s a cartoon, but I’m calling shenanigans on a snake playing the bass.
1:00:36	“It felt, you know… uh, good.” I love the way he said that.
1:03:58	Loving the ninja fox.
1:09:10	Lipstick blow torch actually made me jump.
1:16:12	One of those unnecessarily slow ways to kill someone off.
1:18:08	“Ooh, she just keeps getting cooler.”
1:24:08	HE’S GONNA SPEED IT UP.

Thoughts

I’ve heard good things about this movie and after an exhausting day it was exactly the right vibe to watch - although it didn’t quite live up to the high expectations. It really took a while to get going, even with the understanding that you have to spend some time introducing characters and whatnot. It did gradually get better though, and I love a good heist movie so those elements of it were fun. But I guess it just wasn’t quite as good as some other animations we’ve seen so I could take it or leave it.

Rating: 2 / 5