2022 · action · animation · comedy
The Bad Guys
Directed by Pierre Perifel1h 40m2022
When the Bad Guys, a crew of criminal animals, are finally caught after years of heists and being the world’s most-wanted villains, Mr. Wolf brokers a deal to save them all from prison.
Our read: The Bad Guys (2022) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive action · animation · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, measured action / animation, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- redemptive
- tender
- funny
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