Due to popular demand—view count on my last movie review doubled from the previous one, jumping from two to four—I am proceeding with more movie reviews! No need to thank me.
This week's $5 movie was The Bad Guys. It's a kids' movie, and apparently it's based on a book I've not read, so I'm just going with the plot and the film here.
The Bad Guys are anthropomorphic people in a world consisting mostly of humans (with a few other exceptions). They may be Bad Guys, indeed; they rob banks and make heists and then speed away from police in one car chase after another. But these Bad Guys also super cool—like George Clooney and friends in Ocean's Eleven cool. There's Wolf, Snake, Tarantula, Shark, and Piranha, which is a pretty good sampling of animals I'd want to avoid in real life.
What follows is a series of comic adventures, with a lot of action and more than one character turning out to be someone very different from his/her façade.
Paco's rating: 6 out of 10
Is it worth seeing in the theater? If you've got kids who've read the books, it probably would be more appealing for them than it was for me. It's a good movie, not a great one.
The Good: Kids, I think, will like it more than I did, as I said. The voice cast is certainly appealing, featuring such talents as Sam Rockwell, Awkwafina, Craig Robinson (from "The Office"), Richard Ayoade (from "The I.T. Crowd"), and Anthony Ramos. In spite of the thievery and heisting throughout, a couple of morals of this story include (1) being good is better than being bad, and (2) part of being good is owning up to your mistakes and making amends for them.
The Bad: One of my pet peeve movie stereotypes—in which the local police are incompetent morons—comes up more than once. Sometimes, it's also a little "too" cute for its own good.
The Ugly: Rated PG for mild thematic elements, nothing really that offensive for a family film that I can recall.
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