The Bad Guys

It serves up a few definite laugh-out-loud moments alongside the heavier emotional beats.

DreamWorks Animation might well benefit from putting a moratorium on all flatulence jokes and toning down the hyperactivity. They have something good here without needing any of those things.

The movie plays its target audience like a fiddle. That is music, no matter how familiar, that even the most cynical among us can enjoy.

The Bad Guys is an awful lot of fun.

Overall, the movie has a nicely sophisticated tone. A lot of that has to do with the breeziness of Rockwell’s line readings and the endearing sourness of Maron’s. Beetz’s have real zip, too.

If "The Bad Guys" doesn't enter the top tier of the animated echelon, it's still a fun time at the movies and a strong calling card for Perifel as an animation director to watch.

As a whole, this is medium-functioning family entertainment that’s content to amuse without exerting too much creative ambition. It’s not always memorable, but it works for the most part.

I’m in&#59; the cleverness of the script keeps the audience entertained.

It’ll get the kids thinking about why we don’t always give people who have gotten in trouble with the law the benefit of the doubt to change, which is a nice little filter to grow them up on. After that, it’s just a fun heist riff, a furry Ocean’s 11.

Pierre Perifel's feature directorial debut, "The Bad Guys," manages to take all the things you love about Steven Soderbergh, Guy Ritchie, and Quentin Tarantino's crime movies and puts them in animated form.