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Delightful ‘Bad Guys’ great fun to watch
By James Verniere
Boston Herald
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DreamWorks Animation
The friendship of Mr. Snake (voiced by Marc Maron) and Wolf (Sam Rockwell)
is at the heart of the story told in “The Bad Guys.”
ased on the bestselling
books by Australian author
Aaron Blabey of “Pig the Pug”
and “Thelma the Unicorn” fame,
computer-generated animated
action fi lm “The Bad Guys” tells
the tail, uh, I mean, tale of a
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group of scary-looking animals,
who are also talented profes-
sional thieves.
Mr. Wolf (voice of Academy
Award-winner Sam Rockwell) is
the tall, gray leader of the gang.
His right hand man, uh, snake is
Snake (Marc Maron), who rhapso-
dizes about the mouth-watering
deliciousness of guinea pigs and
is likely to regurgitate something
disgusting. Tarantula (Awkwa-
fi na) is the team’s fun-loving tech
expert and hacker. Cross-dresser
Shark (Craig Robinson), a fi rst
cousin to King Shark of “The Sui-
cide Squad,” has a unique way of
distracting a crowd. Finally, Piranha
(Anthony Ramos, “In the Heights”)
is a little guy with very big teeth
and a fl atulence problem.
Directed by animation de-
partment veteran Pierre Perifel
(“Kung Fu Panda”) and scripted
by Etan Cohen (“Men in Black
3”), “The Bad Guys” begins like a
cross between “Kung Fu Panda”
and Quentin Tarantino’s “Reser-
voir Dogs.”
“The Bad Guys” is set in a
fi ctionalized Los Angeles, where
anthropomorphic animals co-
exist along with cartoon-like
humans. The bad guys of the
title share a warehouse-like lair
off the Los Angeles River. A TV
news reporter named Tiff any
Fluffi t (Lilly Singh) makes regular
appearances to let us know what
the bad guys have been up to,
namely no good.
After robbing a bank, the bad
guys set their eyes upon the
golden statuette of a dolphin
that is the prize at the Good
Samaritan Awards. Gov. Diane
Foxington (Zazie Beetz), a fox, will
be on hand to present the award.
She and Mr. Wolf, who has been
stealing wallets and cash in the
crowd, exchange a few words and
become friendly. The recipient of
the award, Professor Marmalade
(Richard Ayoade), believes that
he can make the bad guys good if
given a chance.
But can these “remorseless
sociopaths” really be changed
for the better? The plot revolves
around a meteorite that struck
the city, leaving a huge crater
and a lot of infrastructure dam-
age. Wolf likes to be chased
along with his cohort passen-
gers in his vintage Camaro-like
hot car. Using the meteorite’s
mysterious power, Professor
Marmalade hatches a James
Bond villain-like plot that in-
volves — wait for it — robotic
guinea pigs that can link up and
turn into a giant Guinea Pig-Zilla.
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