The Bad Guys
When the infamous Bad Guys are finally caught after years of countless heists and being the world’s most-wanted villains, Mr. Wolf brokers a deal to save them all from prison.
- Released: 2022-03-17
- Runtime: 100 minutes
- Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy
- Stars: Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, Craig Robinson, Anthony Ramos, Awkwafina, Richard Ayoade, Zazie Beetz, Lilly Singh, Alex Borstein, Barbara Goodson, Walt Dohrn, Dina Morrone, Michael Godere, Kelly Cooney, David P. Smith, John Venzon, Jesse Averna, Lex Lang
- Director: Pierre Perifel
Comments
- tuoia - 28 May 2024
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, let me tell you about this movie called The Bad Guy. It's like, totally mind-blowing! The story is so well-written, with all these twists and turns that keep you guessing until the very end. And the characters are just awesome.
At first, these guys are like, the ultimate bank robbers. They're like, the A-Team of heists, pulling off these crazy jobs with perfect precision. But then, something happens. They realize that there's more to life than just stealing stuff. They decide to use their skills for good, to help people instead of hurt them.
It's like this whole transformation happens, and they become these amazing heroes. They're like, saving people's lives and making the world a better place. And it's all because they decided to change their ways.
The movie is really inspiring, you know? It shows you that it's never too late to change your life and make a difference. And it's also just a lot of fun. So, if you're looking for a great movie to watch, definitely check out The Bad Guy. You won't be disappointed." - sebastianali123 - 4 January 2024
We are good or actually... bad?
My first movie review since a long time, and nothing changed. Today we have a rain outside, a rain of unpopular opinions as well as haters. Would you believe i watched this movie only because it was commented on a Crash subreddit? Thats how desesperate im these days to find a good movie, lol. Anyway, it is not that bad actually. We can see a creative animation that kind of reminds me a bit to Mitchell versus the machines mix up with Zootopia. Im not a fan of plastic looking models specially in modern animated movies, but if there is something that The Bad Guys does really well to compensate is the colours. Possibly one of the best uses of it and it makes the character models to dont look so flat and the facial animation is also very convicing, specially from Snake which i noticed that in some parts of the movie he is shown close to the camera while looking angry. As an interesting note, some few old cutting edge games tried to show most of the time the character face because thats where all of its polygonal detail was and they also tried to hide its body or make it not look so visible and here with Snake in those particular scenes looks amazing. You can feel exactly what it feels. A shame that the story was also flat, let alone generic and with mediocre execution.
I feel like the movie could had done so much more with this concept of trying to slowly build up the characters to become good, and also trying to decide wheter being good or continue to live up in the comfort zone, but instead the devs showed, alongside the rest of the industry, that they were the ones that still prefer to be in the confort zone. We saw this types of stories countless of times that making another generic review telling the whole story would be an insult for my intellect. The main cool character with a romantic interest, the big fat comic relief doing jokes that nobody cares, the modern girl with all of the accesories that does modern references in a movie that doesnt need them, etc. The only decent written character in the whole movie was Snake which had surprisingly a good arc and even him in the whole movie seem to separate from the rest of the group a couple of times because he is just too good for them to match.
I could also praise some action scenes at the beginning which i admit, they were pretty cool, but seems that there goes all of the budget of the movie (and it was the part they showed the most in the trailers for a reason). Is just not enough to compensante all of the generic parts.
And now we have to talk about the flaws, because yes... this movie actually has real flaws, not just being generic. If it was well made at least i could forgive it.
Lets start with the main topic of the movie: "Can we change?" "Could the Bad Guys turn into Good Guys?" The movie has a lot of problems with this. First of all, apart from Wolf, we never see the rest of the cast to change its mind, in fact, until the prison we see the other guys still wanted to be bad. You may think they had reasons but the truth is that nothing is show by the movie. Only Wolf, which apart from those strange tail moves (which they were honestly awful and i dont count them as a real reason) he seemed to be tired of being always evil, kind of like Megamind, and he got in love. He had at least a reason, the others dont. They just forgive Wolf and follow him whenever it goes i guess.
Its funny how despite all of the things they stolen, that may go up to millions of dollars, they get out of jail in just a year. Im not a lawyer or a judge but you dont have to be clever to know that returning all of what you stolen doesnt excuse what you did. I know this movie doesnt want to take itself too seriously, like most nowadays trash, but an story is an story, it has to make sense.
I also feel like the movie ends too abruptly. They would continue to steal or just live normal lives? Foxy was always a thief and she never seem to be regretful of their actions (that scene were she wanted to confess doesnt count, she technically never paid for their crimes).
Ughh... basically this movie is a mess in what it tries to do. It tries to give bad characters a second chance without deciding for themselves and still hiding its crimes despite accepting their fate. It is not a terrible movie, it is kind of saved for the action scenes (especially at the beginning) and the animation and excellent use of facial expression (Snake in particular) alongside the colours to not just adapting perfectly to the enviroments artistically but also disguise the low quality models, but that doesnt change the fact that like most modern animated movies, this wouldnt be remembered in the future. Dreamworks, Disney and Pixar stopped from making true timeless art a long time ago. The Good Guys as a whole doesnt feel like true art, but just something to fill up their wallets. Maybe the Bad Guys were actually the directors and we didnt know about it.
