Ready to meet “The Bad Guys?”
DreamWorks Animation’s latest feature “The Bad Guys” is based on a children’s book by Australian author Aaron Blabey. The film stars Sam Rockwell, Awkwafina, Anthony Ramos, Craig Robinson and Marc Maron as a bunch of villains who decide to give being good a shot. And while that might sound like a typical animated fable (not unlike the “Despicable Me” movies, for instance), the new movie’s bold aesthetic sets it apart (watch the trailer below).
There have been a number of recent big screen animated projects, including “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” “The Mitchells vs. the Machines,” and Disney’s charming short “Far from the Tree,” that have married the fluidity and dimensionality of computer animation with the exaggerated expressiveness and warmth of traditional 2D hand-drawn animation.