Film review
Who else, who least has among the favorite characters of his childhood one of those villains under whose unfriendly facade the shine of a good heart could be sensed, because deep down they were still a variation of the hero projected on the distorting surface of a mirror fair. An amusing interpretation of this idea is the center of gravity of ‘The Bad Guys’, an animated adaptation of the comic ‘Animallotes’, by Australian Aaron Blabey, where the discoveries of the Disney golden age, the spark of anime and the clear line of the Franco-Belgian school.
From this happy encounter is born a thriller inhabited by anthropomorphic animals (with ‘Zootropolis’ in memory) in which an emulator of Danny Ocean, known as Mr. Wolf, leads a dangerous gang of bank robbers who will have to pretend to be good guys to get rid of from jail.
Crazy car chases, mistaken identities and masterstrokes fuel a plot that thoroughly exploits a thousand and one situations derived from the image of the bad boy trying to fit into a costume made of sheepskin, and it works because both the protagonist and his henchmen they are loaded to the brim with the charisma that Pierre Perifel has ingeniously stolen from Monkey Punch’s Arsène Lupine III.