The Bad Guys

The Bad Guys are a group of thieves comprised on the animals that get stuck as villains in most stories: Wolf (Sam Rockwell, playing his sort of typical smart ass who isn't as smart as he thinks), Snake, Shark, Piranha, and Webs (who looks like a tarantula, but is probably a spider). 

They get busted in their attempt to still some award trophy being presented to a guinea pig that's been named the most good person of the year, because Wolf gets confused after he helps an old lady and she calls him a good boy. The guinea pig, Professor Marmalade, proposes that he can rehabilitate them.

I think the part I laughed the hardest at was when Shark (voiced by Craig Robinson) has to distract a scientist so the group can infiltrate a lab and rescue a bunch of guinea pigs. He puts on a lab coat and fake mustache and convinces the scientist he's his father, here to play a game of catch. There was something else near the end, but I can't remember what it was. Maybe the part where Snake actually shares the Push-Pop.

I was honestly a little confused by the fictional setting. There are talking, clothes-wearing animals, but there are also humans. Mostly humans, other than the Bad Guys, Professor Marmalade, and the governor, who is a talking fox (voiced by Zazie Beets). There are still regular cats and guinea pigs around. Given the disparity, I'm very curious how a talking fox got elected governor of a state. Feels like there'd be a lot of prejudice by humans against having a talking animal as an elected official.

I'm also not sure about the movie's premise. The Bad Guys are bad because everyone has always taken it as a given they were, so they decided to lean into it? OK, I can see that. But all it takes is a little encouragement for them to decide to change? Not sure how Marmalade fits in at that point. It doesn't seem he would have lacked for positive reinforcement. Plus, the Bad Guys seemed like they were having so much fun being bad, would they really want to change?

As it's loosely a heist movie, there are various fakeouts, double-crosses and cons. The whole reason Wolf accepts the rehabilitation offer originally is to get them a pardon and then steal the trophy after all. One character is very obviously not what they seem from the start, another is a bit less obvious.