Bad Guys

2022 - 5 - 13

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Lilly Singh says Tiffany in 'The Bad Guys' is similar to her YouTube ... (APN News)

YouTube sensation and host Lilly Singh has become a worldwide phenomenon and a force to reckon with on the digital space. She has donned many hats, ...

With the movie releasing in a week’s time, Lilly Singh talks about her character, Tiffany, and what appealed to her about the story. ‘The Bad Guys’, an animated action-comedy, is an upcoming project by DreamWorks and Universal Pictures’ where the villains go off course from their conventional villainous image and choose to walk the path of good. The actor-comedian is now all set for the release of her upcoming movie ‘The Bad Guys’, an adaptation of the book with the same name.

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Thomas Tuchel says Chelsea ready to be the 'bad guys' and KO ... (The Sun)

THOMAS TUCHEL is ready for Chelsea to be the "bad guys" in Saturday's FA Cup final.The Blues boss agrees with claims Kop chief Jurgen Klopp has charme.

“Klopp is the master of being the underdog. “My players have to step up against it and I have to step up against it. We are hoping maybe time is enough and he makes it.” “He does it all the time. “There is a huge sympathy for Liverpool in this country. I would say it is hard to really argue with it.

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Thomas Tuchel happy for Chelsea to be 'the bad guys' against ... (Irish Examiner)

Thomas Tuchel has branded Jurgen Klopp 'the master of being the underdog' as he praised his compatriot for fostering a countrywide 'sympathy' for Liverpool.

But he is very charismatic. “He is like one with the supporters and the club and he is the face, the charismatic leader of this development, of this huge club. That’s part of it, that’s also like from where the sympathy comes. “There’s nothing to be jealous of from my side. “If we take that role, no problem. “But at the same time, I don’t think it’s only here.

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Thomas Tuchel doesn't mind if Chelsea are 'the bad guys' in FA Cup ... (The Guardian)

Chelsea's manager has said he understands why Pep Guardiola believes the public want Liverpool to win the Premier League, but says he doesn't mind his team ...

“Never ever will I let someone speak for me,” he said on Instagram. “I kept my mouth shut and focused on helping the team the best way as possible. He is like one with the supporters and the club. Pastorello admitted “there was a problem” earlier this season but he dismissed suggestions of the Belgian joining Internazionale or Milan this summer. “There’s nothing to be jealous of; Kloppo is a fantastic guy, funny guy, one of the best coaches in the world and that’s what he does. “It’s a big credit to him and this is what you deal with if you play a team against him. “He can talk you into being the underdog against Villarreal and against Benfica, and it’s a miracle how they even draw against them.

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Thomas Tuchel says Chelsea happy to be the 'bad guys' against ... (Telegraph.co.uk)

Chelsea manager backs Pep Guardiola, believing compatriot Jurgen Klopp is a master of portraying his team as the underdog.

“There are huge sympathies for Liverpool, I feel that as well, in the whole country and I can understand it. “If you fight against it , like Pep for many, many years, I can understand the comment that sometimes it feels like this. “It’s big, big, big credit to him and this is what you deal with when you play a team against him, it’s always like this, but it’s always the fun part and so if we are the bad guys on Saturday, then no problem. He can talk you into it and he does it all the time, he does it a lot of times. “There’s nothing to be jealous of from my side, Kloppo is a fantastic guy, a funny guy, one of very, very best coaches in the world and that’s what he does. He can talk you into being the underdog against Villareal and against Benfica, and it’s a miracle, miracle how they even draw against them.

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'The Bad Guys' Makes Good (Animation World Network)

Director Pierre Perifel and producers Damon Ross and Rebecca Huntley talk about how they created DreamWorks Animation new CG action comedy, about a crew of ...

And the idea was to try to allow for a greater flow in the sequences and in the way they act out their characters. PP: It was something that I'd been wanting to explore for a long time and never had the chance to do because I was never in this position. And it's in those moments that you find some real gold, and the believability of the scene just skyrockets. We even had a position on our film, which was “head of look.” Jeff Budsberg actually focused on many of our challenges in the look of the movie and helped us with the how of it all. So the teams had to deconstruct and relearn the way they did things. And we always approached everything with the “how”: Okay, here's what we need to do. It’s something that's different and might be a little confusing at first, but we commit to the concept pretty early and I think most audiences just go along with it. The idea that we could make a heist movie for a family audience was super appealing, and then talking with them about how we could create a stylistically different-looking movie was also super appealing. We also made a conscious choice – it wasn't in the original script, but evolved in later drafts – to depart from the book slightly by making it a kind of human/animal hybrid universe. But the big thing was really to make sure that these characters represented human fears that we project onto these animals. It's so cool.” And I immediately knew what I wanted to do with it. What it mostly did was allow me to get to know the teams – producers, production teams, creative teams – really well.

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Stream It Or Skip It: 'The Bad Guys' on VOD, a Modestly Clever ... (Decider)

The Gist: Los Angeles. A diner. Mr. Wolf (voice of Sam Rockwell) and Mr. Snake (Marc Maron) chat about the deliciousness of guinea pigs and other such ...

And then the Bad Guys get busted, and scooped up by Marmalade so he can rehab them into the Good Guys, which Wolf sees as an opportunity to pretend to be good but actually be bad, although that tail-wagging bit tells us this conceit is a slippery slope. And then there’s the stuff kids aren’t supposed to watch: Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Heat and a couple of those Fast and Furious movies. Our Take: Three things keep The Bad Guys from being a winking reference-fest lashed to a familiar makeshift-family-sticks-together (quoth Vin Diesel: “Fambly”) morality fable: One, the amiable dynamic between Rockwell’s conflicted Wolf and Maron’s irascible Snake. Two, some fun, skillfully conceived action sequences. And three, a Looney Tuned chaotic sensibility that finds comedy in exaggeration and wholesale silliness. They gather the other members of their criminal fivesome: crazy berzerker Mr. Piranha (Anthony Ramos of In the Heights), hacker extraordinaire Ms. Tarantula (Awkwafina) and master of disguise Mr. Shark (Craig Robinson). They are the Bad Guys, notorious and feared everywhere and by all. Our lead duo leaps into Wolf’s convertible sports car and they zoom through a Michael Mannish stretch of L.A., the cops, led by the easily flustered Chief Misty Luggins (Alex Borstein), on their tail. They get up to pay the bill and everyone cowers in the corners, and this is when we realize that this particular narrative world blends anthropomorphic bipedal versions of quadruped animals with humans, which is interesting, just interesting. Pedal-to-the-metal action sequences cop a thing or two from The Incredibles 2. Now on VOD after a good, solid theatrical run, The Bad Guys is an animated comedy taking author Aaron Blabey’s series of kid books (in the vein of Captain Underpants and the like) and transforming them into a spoofy riff on action-heist movies. The new governor, red fox Diane Foxington (Zazie Beetz), drags the Bad Guys on TV, inspiring Wolf to Clooney-voiceover a heist scheme to embarrass her – something about snatching a gold statue intended for a goody-goody gazillionaire guinea pig named Professor Rupert Marmalade IV (Richard Ayoade). Before we can parse whether the statue is a MacGuffin or not, two major developments occur: First, Wolf accidentally saves an old woman from falling down the stairs, and might actually almost possibly maybe feel good about doing something good, and his tail wags involuntarily. Traffic slams to a halt as Wolf and Snake cross the street, walk into a bank and rob it. Mr. Wolf (voice of Sam Rockwell) and Mr. Snake (Marc Maron) chat about the deliciousness of guinea pigs and other such frivolities.

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The Northman, Uncharted, and more new movies you can watch at ... (Polygon)

The Sandra Bullock-Channing Tatum adventure rom-com The Lost City is on Paramount Plus, while the Uncharted adaptation with Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg is now ...

But where that film told a simple yarn with an audacious, lived-in, widescreen style, Monstrous, directed by Chris Sivertson and written by Carol Chrest, brings a straightforward approach to material that has more going on under the surface. Christina Ricci stars in this horror movie about a woman and her young son who move to a faraway house to escape her abusive ex-husband. When her attempt to pilfer a priceless jewel lands her in the crosshairs of a clandestine group of villains led by Black Mask and Interpol, she’ll have to turn to the aid of Batwoman in order to save her own skin and once again come out on top. Rebel Wilson stars as a former cheerleader in this different take on a high school comedy. Set in the last days of communism in Poland, the action-comedy crime drama The Getaway King is based on the real-life story of Zdzisław “Najmro” Najmrodzki (Dawid Ogrodnik), a wily, streetwise thief infamous for escaping imprisonment over 29 times. Set in the year 2045, the film follows Motoko Kusanagi and her mercenary group of former Public Security Section 9 members who are re-recruited by Daisuke Aramaki to investigate and fend off an new existential threat to humanity in the form of a mysterious organization of superhuman individuals known as “post-humans.” Following a family vacationing at a tropical resort, the movie takes a dark turn when they and fellow guests at the resort find themselves trapped on a mysterious beach with no way to escape. One of the people trapped on the beach, played by The Underground Railroad’s Aaron Pierre, is a rapper named Mid-Sized Sedan. Really. On a thematic one, it’s an agitprop romance, one of the most effective mass media diagnoses of the current moment that finds countless things to be angry about, and proposes fighting them all with radical, reckless love. When their daughter, Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong), manifests powerful pyrokinetic abilities after her 11th birthday, the family go on the run to protect from government agents tasked with hunting them down and experimenting on her. Two of our picks for the best movies of the year so far are now available to rent in The Northman and Ambulance, as is the animated heist comedy The Bad Guys. The Sandra Bullock-Channing Tatum adventure rom-com The Lost City is on Paramount Plus, while the Uncharted adaptation with Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg is now a $5.99 rental. The dialogue similarly blends savagery with bombast: One character chokes out a death curse, promising to plague his killer until “a flaming vengeance gorges on your flesh.” Another optimistically tells a friend, “together we will rage on the battlefield of corpses.” Place all this against the majestic Icelandic landscape and an aural backdrop of booming drums and deep bass chants that roll in like a thunderstorm, and the effect is appropriately awe-inspiring.

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