REVIEW:
The Bad Guys 2 is unfortunately not on the same level as the first movie. Now the first Bad Guys film, wasn’t exactly knock-your-socks-off great to begin with. It was good, to be sure, with its Zootopia-like menacing anti-hero characters (this one featured a cool wolf, whereas in that one it was a cool Fox.) But the story about characters learning to become good felt a little obvious. What really made the movie were all of the twists that came in the second half.
The sequel just cannot copy that formula. And it doesn’t even try. Instead, it tries to up the ante by taking our characters into space. There’s a running joke from movies like Machete Kills and one of the Fast and Furious movies, and I suppose even Moonraker, the James Bond movie… when your franchise has run out of steam and has nowhere left to go, take it into space. This movie res he’s that level of stupidity.
To be fair, the movie starts out pretty strong. First it shies our characters trying to be good and get real jobs only to find that nobody is up for hiring them. Then it shows them working with the police to help catch other villains by explaining to the police what they would do in the situation if the my were the culprits. This is all fun. But then the villains are introduced, and blackmail our protagonists into helping them, and it’s all downhill from there. The next thing you know we’re watching villainous character. Who become redeemable way too easily, and lots of fart jokes involving the gas filling up a space suit. It’s not smart and it’s certainly not funny. This movie started out strong, but boy does it fall apart after that.