Overview

• The Bad Guys 2 opens August 1 with the reformatted criminal crew mounting a globe-spanning heist against tech tycoon Mr. Moon.
• Colin Jost lends dry humor to Mr. Moon, whose Moon X venture serves as a wink to Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
• New antagonists Kitty Kat, Pigtail and Doom—the Bad Girls—escalate the sequel’s stakes with their own gold-stealing plan.
• Critics praise the sequel’s kinetic action, from a high-speed Cairo chase to a gravity-defying sequence in outer space.
• DreamWorks has begun early development on The Bad Guys 3, and Perifel hasn’t ruled out bringing back the billionaire parody.