"The Bad Guys 2" turns into a visually elegant outer-space action adventure, and that’s where the film really comes alive.

‘The Bad Guys’ Film Review: Talking Animals Meet 1970s Caper in Amusing Animated Comedy The characters could be deeper, but the throwbacks to vintage Saturday-morning cartoons make this one ...

The Bad Guys is adapted from Aaron Blabey’s best-selling book series, and follows five animal thieves as they attempt their most challenging job yet: going good to avoid being locked up.

Taking five anthropomorphised animals generally portrayed as violent terrors in the cartoon world — led by a big bad wolf, no less — and centering them as a chummy, lovable criminal collective ...