Film Review - The Bad Guys 2 (2025)

The Bad Guys 2 is the sequel to the 2022 animated movie The Bad Guys and sees Wolf (Sam Rockwell), Piranha (Anthony Ramos), Tarantula (Awkafina), Shark (Craig Robinson) and Snake (Marc Maron) trying to go good but struggling to adapt when they hear about a heist regarding the MoonX Space Rocket but they aren’t the only group interested in the rocket.

The Bad Guys was a fun animated movie that had a loveable cast of rogues, good animation and some good twists and turns along the way and I was pleasantly surprised by it but this is a sequel and well these can easily go bust.

Happily this one isn’t as I had as much fun with this film as I did with the first film and for a lot of the same reasons, firstly the cast are as lovable and roguish as ever and though they are now trying to live life on the straight and narrow they still can’t say No when a good heist comes along and the voice cast play off each other well and Wolf is turning into one of Sam Rockwell’s best roles.

The film also has some good animation that feels less like the Pixar style and more like the Spider-Verse sketchbook style and while this style doesn’t quite work as well in computer animation as compared to traditional hand drawn animation it still is good to see and I enjoyed the animation work done here.

And lastly this movie has some good villains in a rival criminal gang (Danielle Brooks, Natasha Lyonne and Maria Bakalova) who looked up to the Bad Guys and want to heist the MoonX Rocket and they are good to watch as well.

And so that was the Bad Guys 2 and it’s a case of if you liked the first film you’ll like this one too and this has become a surprisingly solid animated film franchise and I’ll happily sit down for a third film but given the low box office for this sequel I don’t see it happening, 3 out of 5.