It's not hard to see where this movie draws its inspiration. Subverting fairy tales, that's 'Shrek.'
Adults will find little to surprise them about “The Bad Guys,” and even kids have probably been taken on this ride a few times before. The Beast from Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” could be legitimately terrifying at times, so his arc about having to overcome his image made sense. These are the most family-friendly versions of these animals imaginable. Seriously, the world is afraid of “these” animals? The leader is the Big Bad Wolf (Sam Rockwell), his best friend is Mr. Snake (Marc Maron), the rest of the team is Miss Tarantula (Awkwafina), Mr. Piranha (Anthony Ramos), and Mr. Shark (Craig Robinson). At the start of the movie, they lead a life of crime since no one is willing to give them a chance in life, what with the scariness and portrayals as villains and such. The film follows a group of supposedly unlikeable animals as they do bad, do bad while they pretend to want to do good, then grapple with the decision whether or not to actually do good.
"The Bad Guys" is the story of five notorious robbers who decide to commit the perfect heist and cement their legacy in the crime world.
Wolf finally accepted that he felt a tingling in his heart when he helped the old woman, and maybe he didn’t want to be bad anymore, which led to a brawl between Wolf and Snake, and suddenly the Crimson Paw infiltrated the premise and helped the gang escape from the prison. As they walked out of the prison, they discussed Snake’s birthday while trying to figure out what they were going to do with their lives. Marmalade kicked Snake out of the helicopter as soon as he found out that Wolf’s car was heading towards his cliff, while Wolf, on the other hand, decided to sacrifice his life to save Snake. Suddenly, the news reporter spotted Marmalade’s helicopter with the meteorite and concluded that Marmalade was bringing it back to safety. Wolf even encounters an old woman on the staircase and tries to steal money from her purse when suddenly the woman slips on the staircase and Wolf saves her life, but as soon as the woman hugs Wolf in gratitude, he feels a tingling in his heart and his tail starts wagging after committing the first good deed of his life, probably. Marmalade stole the meteorite and harnessed its power source to run a mind control device, a brain-wave helmet of some sort, with the help of which he hypnotized all the guinea pigs in the city and employed them to pull off the greatest heist that the world has ever seen. After a bit of hesitation, the governor agrees, and the gang is transferred to Marmalade’s safe house, where he starts instructing his new pupils. However, Wolf and his gang are just buying time to steal the Golden Dolphin trophy that will be on display during Marmalade’s charity event. Sometimes, a wolf isn’t hiding in a sheep’s skin and wants to be comfortable in its own, but the world isn’t ready to accept that kind of narrative. However, once Wolf has his eye on something, he doesn’t hold back his urges and thus convinces his gang to steal the trophy to show the governor what “The Bad Guys” gang is capable of. Wolf coins a grand plan to steal the trophy from backstage, and the gang arrives at the Museum of Fine Arts, where the trophy is going to be represented to the city’s most cherished philanthropist, Professor Rupert Marmalade IV, a guinea pig. Hence, they turn towards the world of crime and decide to achieve a legacy by being the baddest criminals of their time.