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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
DreamWorks Animation's "The Bad Guys 2" to be Released with TrueCut Motion
Premium Screens Worldwide Take Advantage of Pixelworks' Award-Winning Motion Technology DreamWorks Animation's "The Bad Guys 2" arrives in theaters August 1, 2025 LOS ANGELES, July 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Pixelworks announced today DreamWorks Animation's The Bad Guys 2 will be presented with TrueCut Motion™ technology on premium screens worldwide. The Bad Guys 2 arrives in theaters August 1, 2025. In this new chapter from DreamWorks Animation's acclaimed comedy smash about a crackerjack crew of animal outlaws, the now-reformed Bad Guys are trying to be good but instead find themselves hijacked into a high-stakes, globe-trotting heist, masterminded by a new team of criminals they never saw coming: The Bad Girls. Working closely with the filmmakers, the Pixelworks motion grading team utilized advanced TrueCut Motion technology to bring stunning motion clarity to this action-packed new feature comedy. On premium large format screens, important details are lost during subtle movement of the subjects, as well as during fast action scenes. Now, with TrueCut Motion technology, the stunning artistry that has gone into The Bad Guys 2 will be visually perfect on the world's largest and brightest cinema screens in both 2D and 3D, throughout every scene, giving audiences an ultimate premium experience, unlike anything they've seen before. TrueCut Motion is an award-winning technology breakthrough that provides filmmakers with an extended palette of motion looks that has never been possible before. The powerful TrueCut Motion platform allows filmmakers to fine-tune or enhance the motion look of all the action, shot by shot, in post-production, while keeping the intended cinematic look and feel intact. The TrueCut Motion platform then ensures that these creative choices are delivered consistently across every screen and optimized on any viewing device — spanning theaters, televisions, mobile and next-generation headsets — in both 3D and standard 2D environments. Pixelworks and TrueCut Motion are trademarks of Pixelworks, Inc. About Pixelworks Pixelworks, Inc. (Nasdaq: PXLW) provides industry-leading content creation, video delivery and display processing solutions and technology that enable highly authentic viewing experiences with superior visual quality, across all screens – from cinema to smartphone and beyond. The Company has more than 20 years of history delivering image processing innovation to leading providers of consumer electronics, professional displays, and video streaming services. Pixelworks' TrueCut Motion ecosystem allows filmmakers to create visually stunning motion, scene by scene while ensuring the director's intent is precisely delivered in cinemas or home theaters. For more information on Pixelworks, visit: For more information on TrueCut Motion: View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Pixelworks, Inc. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data
Scotsman
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
The Bad Guys 2 review: 'slapstick gags aplenty'
Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter, get the latest news and reviews from our specialist arts writers Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... The Bad Guys 2 (PG) ★★★★ 2022's The Bad Guys was one of the funnier animated movies of recent years. A family friendly heist movie about a crew of lovable rogues, it smartly used all the tricks of a good con artist movie to serve up an amusing message about not judging books by their covers. The Bad Guys 2 | Contributed Set a few years on, The Bad Guys 2 recaptures that vibe, picking up the action as Mr Wolf (Sam Rockwell), Tarantula (Awkwafina), Shark (Craig Robinson) and Snake (Marc Maron) wrestle with the down-to-earth tedium of now being the Good Guys in a world that's reluctant to give them a second chance. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Struggling to find work and bored with a life devoid of car chases and danger, they soon find themselves framed for a series of robberies and decide to use their criminal expertise to prove their innocence and catch the real crooks. Where the first film took its breezy stylistic cues from Ocean's Eleven, the new one kicks the action up a ridiculous notch or two with some old school Bond-style villainy involving rockets to space and obligatory pops at the tech oligarchy. It also makes room for some husky-voiced hilarity from the ubiquitous Natasha Lyonne, cast here as the ominously named Doom, the not-quite-what-she-seems avian romantic interest for Snake who also just happens to be part of an all-female-crew of criminals trying to lure the Bad Guys out of retirement.
RTÉ News
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
Bad Guys 2: a slick and funny return for the animal crime collective
How to be good when you're so very good at being bad? That's the dilemma facing Mr Wolf, Mr Shark, Ms Tarantula and Mr. Piranha in this frenetic and entertaining sequel to DreamWorks 2022 animation Bad Guys. Watch our interviews with the cast of Bad Guys 2 Now firmly on civvy street after a spell in clink, the anthropomorphic crew of former safe crackers, tech geniuses and criminal masterminds are struggling to readjust. The thrill is gone and it won't be found in a crummy 9 to 5 and the beat-up hatchback the debonair Mr Wolf is now forced to drive. Meanwhile the rest of the world is still blaming them, like Macavity the mystery cat, for every bad deed done. With their recidivist ways and taste for danger, this can't last long so it's almost a blessing when the bad guys are kidnapped by an all-female crime gang, led by a devious snow leopard called Kitty Kat, and blackmailed into pulling off one last heist that goes beyond Auric Goldfinger's dreams of avarice. You know the drill. However, if the first Bad Guys flick was a souffle of PG Quentin Tarantino meets Ocean's Eleven (a franchise that got more and more irksome as it developed), this one dreams big with an opening sequence straight out of Bond and Mission Impossible scale and action throughout. There is a requisite but inventive fart joke, Mr Shark does a Little Richard impression disguised as a pastor at a tech bro's wedding and, best of all, super villain Mr Marmalade (voiced by Richard Ayoade) is back and now a pumped up and tattooed jailbird.
The Guardian
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
The Bad Guys 2 review – gang of cuddly animal criminals get pulled back in for one last heist
Here's one of the few animated kids' sequels you can approach without strapping into a hazmat suit for protection. DreamWorks's franchise hits its stride with this minor upgrade – a snappier, funnier and more relaxed movie than the original. It begins like a Bond or Bourne with a death-defying car chase around Cairo after the gang of criminal predators pull off yet another a splashy heist. Behind the wheel of the getaway car is ringleader Mr Wolf (voiced by Sam Rockwell, and doing such a decent Clooney impersonation that George should shake him down for royalties). Actually, the chase is a flashback to five years ago. Right now, in the present, Mr Wolf, Mr Snake, Mr Shark and the gang have gone straight. But their fresh start as good guys is scuppered by a snow leopard and a frame-up for a series of daring heists involving a precious metal called MacGuffinite (a silly gag for film-buff adults). The best character from the first movie, super-villainous guinea pig Professor Marmalade (voiced by Richard Ayoade) is also back. Locked up in a maximum security prison, he's prison fit and covered with tattoos, his newfound physical menace let down only slightly by a nasally whine. There's more wit and energy this time around, and a genuinely sweet message about friendship. Even the fart joke (every kids' movie must have at least one) was a cut above and had the adults giggling. That said, my reviewing buddy who rated the original Bad Guys 10 stars out of five in 2022 when she was five, was less enthusiastic this time around. 'It was OK,' she muttered. So what do I know? The Bad Guys 2 is out on 25 July in the UK, on 1 August in the US, and 18 September in Australia.
New Statesman
23-07-2025
- Entertainment
- New Statesman
The Bad Guys 2 is the sequel this summer needed
Photo by Universal Pictures As a grudge-bearing puritan, I'd never liked the idea of a crime caper. The very words 'heist movie' stuck in the throat. Finding criminality funny and entertaining is plain wrong, surely?I may not have gone quite so far as Simone Weil. In her essay 'Morality and Literature', she claimed that in reality nothing is so beautiful and wonderful as the good, no desert so dreary, monotonous and boring as evil. Fictional good and evil are the other way around, she lamented. 'Fictional good is boring and flat, while fictional evil is varied and intriguing, attractive, profound, and full of charm.' But I had lurking sympathy with Louis B Mayer who, on finding that he had accidentally produced the first great heist movie, John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle of 1950, reacted indignantly: 'It's trash. That Asphalt Pavement thing is full of nasty, ugly people doing nasty things. I wouldn't cross the street to see a picture like that.' All of these qualms were swept away forever by The Bad Guys in 2022. This DreamWorks animation, the debut feature by French director Pierre Perifel, based on the children's book series by Aaron Blabey, is a joy – an enduring joy, I can confirm, having watched it on repeat with an eight-year-old. Emulating Ocean's Eleven, with bits of Reservoir Dogs thrown in, Bad Guys presents a matchless criminal crew, led by the big bad wolf, Mr Wolf, a raffish pickpocket, brilliantly voiced by Sam Rockwell. As sidekicks, he has his best friend, the voracious, untrustworthy safe-cracker Mr Snake (Marc Maron); Mr Shark (Craig Robinson), an outsize master of disguise given to sudden panic; Ms Tarantula (Awkwafina), also known as Webs, a bad-tempered computer expert, who utilises all eight digits at lightning speed; and Mr Piranha (Anthony Ramos), the pint-sized, mango-faced muscle of the gang, a toxic farter at times of stress. Arrayed against them are the foxy state governor, Diane Foxington (Zazie Beetz), concealing a criminal past of her own as the legendary Scarlet Paw, and infuriating do-gooder, scientific genius and guinea pig Professor Marmalade (Richard Ayoade). Told by fawning reporter Tiffany Fluffit (Lilly Singh) that some have described his war-stopping, panda-saving goodness as second only to that of Mother Teresa, Marmalade coos: 'Oh, Tiffany, it's not a competition, and if it were, it would be more of a tie, but there's a flower of goodness inside all of us, just waiting to blossom.' Ayoade voices this sanctimonious rodent wonderfully well, his ultimate villainy never in doubt, thanks to his English accent. The Bad Guys addresses the allure of being bad, as compared to the effort of being good, directly. Anthropomorphic animation might not seem like the typical medium for these moral questions, but the film makes them its central ploy to brilliant effect. Zingily scripted by Etan Cohen (not one of those Cohen brothers), it's animated by Perifel and his collaborators in an exhilaratingly cartoonish style, sometimes more 2-D than 3-D, more akin to anime and French graphic novels than the usual bland polish of DreamWorks. So here now is The Bad Guys 2, an automatic must-see for all captured by the original. Although still a heist movie, this time the model is more James Bond and Mission: Impossible, with the action pumped up, louder and more frenetic. Mr Wolf, fresh out of prison, is finding being good difficult, his application to work at a bank he has previously robbed three times unsuccessful. Then a new gang appears, the Bad Girls, led by a nasty snow leopard, Kitty Kat (Danielle Brooks), backed up by a deceitful raven, Doom (Natasha Lyonne) and a porky boar, Pigtail (Maria Bakalova). Threatening to expose Governor Foxington's past, they force the Bad Guys into one last job, a plot to steal all the gold in the world, using a giant magnet made of the rare element 'Mcguffinite', from space. Subscribe to The New Statesman today from only £8.99 per month Subscribe Being that difficult second crime caper, The Bad Guys 2 lacks the great charm of being able to reveal its characters for the first time. And although Marmalade returns, he's underplayed and not the same, having used his time in prison to bulk himself up enormously. The scene in which Governor Foxington interviews him in his cell is yet another Hannibal Lecter pastiche, but no match for the Shaun the Sheep version. No matter. In a summer of dodgy sequels (Freakier Friday and a fourth Naked Gun, to join the dinos and superheroes), it's good to see the Bad Guys, being good and bad. A heist is never about the loot, remember. 'The Bad Guys 2' is in cinemas now [See also: Superman's new mission: to make the world 'a bit nicer'] Related
