The Bad Guys | April 22, 2022 | Universal/Dreamworks | Based on the children's book series of the same name

[DAJK]

This needs to move to March now. It’ll get clobbered where it’s at now. Plus, Batman is a better CBM to go up against for a kids movie than something more kid-friendly like Dr Strange/MCU.

[Grebacio]

Just found out this will be releasing on March 17th/24th on Latin America, TBH that should have been its release date everywhere.

[Grebacio]

Also March 18th on Spain and March 24th on Russia

[Eric Quinn]

 

[Grebacio]

I know this might sound like a dumb question, but, do you think furries can make this a hit? I've seen A LOT of fan arts the weeks after the first trailer was released.

[SLAM!]

6 hours ago, Grebacio said:

I know this might sound like a dumb question, but, do you think furries can make this a hit? I've seen A LOT of fan arts the weeks after the first trailer was released.

Any publicity is better than no publicity!

[porginchina]

Not sure how well this will do in China, but The Bad Guys (local title: 坏蛋联盟, or roughly Bad Eggs Alliance when re-translated super literally) has cleared censorship and is now awaiting a release date. Personally, I'm looking forward to this one… animation looks fun and colorful, should be an entertaining 90 minutes in a theater.

[SLAM!]

1 hour ago, porginchina said:

Not sure how well this will do in China, but The Bad Guys (local title: 坏蛋联盟, or roughly Bad Eggs Alliance when re-translated super literally) has cleared censorship and is now awaiting a release date. Personally, I'm looking forward to this one… animation looks fun and colorful, should be an entertaining 90 minutes in a theater.

Bad Eggs Alliance would be a much better title 

[DAJK]

I honestly don't see this doing much better than Boss Baby 2. Would be really nice if we could have another Home-sized hit, but I would be utterly shocked if that happened. 

[Morieris]

I'm disappointed Dreamworks became a bit of a non-entity in recent years, even with global events. A lot of it isn't their fault, and other studios still handled their animated releases better.

Edited March 4, 2022 by Morieris

[Grebacio]

11 minutes ago, Morieris said:

I'm disappointed Dreamworks became a bit of a non-entity in recent years, even with global events. A lot of it isn't their fault, and other studios still handled their animated releases better.

Dreamworks used to be my favorite animated studio back in 2010-2014 and now  I barely have an idea of what they projects are.

They had some good movies that either flopped or disappointed box office wise.

While I don't really look forward for Bad Guys, it does seems like a funny movie and I hope it makes a good profit

Edited March 4, 2022 by Grebacio

[AniNate]

I dunno, I like them better with their more innocuous business model they have now. They've sorta dropped the pretense of trying to appeal to adults with all their content and aren't an obnoxious marketing machine anymore (like, I don't think the "Dreamworks face" cliche applies now). Would like to see another elevated property like HTTYD come out of there at some point though.

Edited March 4, 2022 by AniNate

[filmlover]

This feels like a nonstarter to me.

[porginchina]

I can't say I'm super inordinately excited for The Bad Guys, but I am looking forward to it more than something like Boss Baby 2. It's nice to see another bigger Hollywood production breaking from the same cookie-cutter Pixar/WDAS animation design. While Bad Guys doesn't look quite as stylistically extreme as Into the Spider-Verse or Mitchells vs. The Machines, it still seems like a fun change of pace, at least visually.

 

If worse comes to worse, should still provide a solid 90 minutes of air conditioning, so…

[Grebacio]

Quote

DreamWorks’ The Bad Guys opened with $8.5 million in 25 overseas territories

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2022/03/20/box-office-sing-2-scores-in-japan-as-uncharted-passes-200-million-overseas/?sh=7042377846ca

[Jonwo]

It's a pretty solid film, the plot is a little predictable but I think kids will really like it. The animation is great and a departure from the usual DWA style.

[Grebacio]

15 hours ago, Jonwo said:

It's a pretty solid film, the plot is a little predictable but I think kids will really like it. The animation is great and a departure from the usual DWA style.

 

I also watched it yesterday and while It's not a masterpiece, it is really funny. I had such a good time with it, and was entertained from minute 1 till the credits. It had the right amount of ridiculousness without going over the top.

7.5/10, Mr Wolf is now one of my favorite DW characters.

Edited March 27, 2022 by Grebacio

[Grebacio]

The Bad Guys grossed an estimated $6.5M internationally this weekend. Estimated international total stands at $16.8M.#TheBadGuys #BoxOffice @UniversalPics @Dreamworks

— BoxOfficeReport.com (@BORReport) March 27, 2022

[Grebacio]

Solid start at Rotten Tomatoes with 94% All Critics, 7.2 average score from 17 reviews / 88% Top Critics, 6.5 average score from 8 reviews

 

[cannastop]

LMAO they made a commercial bragging about The Bad Guys having 96% on rottentomatoes. I go and check and it's 91% with 34 reviews.

Which is GOOD I guess but how many reviews were they counting with that 96% lol