Why is “The Bad Guys 2” rated PG? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “action/mild violence, rude humor and language.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes several kissing scenes, several flirting scenes and discussions of relationships, several scenes of characters speeding in vehicles while being chased, a few fight scenes that leave characters with bruises, characters clinging to a rocket as it leaves Earth’s atmosphere, discussions of stealing and lives of crime, a character in a prison cell, and some strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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Several years after the Bad Guys turned good, they find themselves being framed for heists that they did not commit. They are now faced with the prospect of going back to jail, or trying to uncover the real culprit. With the voices of Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, Craig Robinson, Anthony Ramos, Awkwafina, Zazie Beetz, Richard Ayoade, Lilly Singh, Alex Borstein, Maria Bakalova, Anthony Batarse, Danielle Brooks, Omid Djalili, Natasha Lyonne and Katherine Ryan. Directed by Pierre Perifel & JP Sans. [Running Time: 1:44]

The Bad Guys 2 SEX/NUDITY 2

 – A snake and a bird kiss and we see saliva and the bird’s head inside the snake’s gaping mouth. A snake and a bird talk about kissing, and they flirt and coo. A man and a woman kiss during a wedding ceremony. A wolf and a fox kiss while embracing and floating in the air. A wolf and a fox move closer together and appear to be flirting; they touch each other’s paws and then abruptly pull away.
► A snake tells a bird, “You are so hot right now.” A snake picks a lock and uses terms that could be construed as sexual referring to “working your way into its cold heart,” and “melting its defenses.” A bird and a snake talk about being in a pretend relationship and whether they were “into” each other.
► A snake lifts his T-shirt to reveal a series of abdominal muscles. A wolf is pulled out of a costume and we see him wearing only boxer shorts.

The Bad Guys 2 VIOLENCE/GORE 3

 – A man yells at a server bringing him food on a tray and knocks the food to the floor. A shark tackles a security guard and steals his uniform during a robbery. A wolf sails through the air with a wingsuit and falls through a hole, cut in glass by a snake, landing on the floor of a suite where he threatens a man (growling, baring his teeth and claws) and steals his car; an explosive is left behind, which blows up spraying confetti through the suite and out the windows. The Bad Guys speed through a suite window and fall several stories landing on an inflatable figure below before speeding away chased by police on motorcycles; they speed through streets, ramp over a truck piled high with chickens in cages, they speed across rooftops, the car ramps into the air at a police roadblock where it is caught by a giant magnet attached to a crane and dropped back to the ground. A character in a large limousine floats in space and transforms into a space vessel that shoots through a portal and into space.
► A fox fights several characters as they walk across an elevated walkway to enter a rocket; the fox is shot with a tranquilizer dart and pulls herself along the walkway to the rocket. A cat punches a wolf repeatedly. A cat slams a wolf against a wall and chokes him. A cat angrily punches a bird and a pig and they seem startled. A cat holds a wolf by the throat, a fox intervenes, and they fight briefly. A knife is thrown toward a snake and it hits the chair he is sitting in. A wolf is shot with a tranquilizer dart and falls unconscious. A woman is struck with a tranquilizer dart and falls unconscious after seeming woozy. A shark hits a police commissioner knocking her unconscious; we see her being put inside a portable toilet and her head is wrested against a roll of toilet paper. A piranha pushes a security guard into the trunk of a car and closes the lid. Several characters are locked into handcuffs. A video is released exposing a character as a thief.
► A machine is engaged on a space station causing all the gold on Earth to be drawn into space toward it. A rocket blasts off from a launchpad blowing flames and smoke all around the area; a helicopter with several characters onboard flies through the smoke and the characters jump out and cling to the side of the rocket as it lifts off; they scramble up the side of the rocket and get inside an airlock where we see them shivering and covered with frost. A giant crowd of people chases the Bad Guys out of a wrestling match and through streets thinking that they have stolen a prized champion’s belt; they run through a parking lot, are cut off by police and speed away in a food truck; the police commissioner jumps on the windshield and is thrown off (we see the commissioner with cactus tines stuck in her face and some bruises). A space station falls out of orbit and we hear alarms blaring; the scene cuts to a funeral for five characters that we are told died in the crash (we see them later with bandages on their faces, but alive).
► Wrestlers wrestle in a ring and one crashes down on the other, and throws him out of the ring; another wrestler wearing a boar’s head mask enters the ring and wraps the other wrestler in the ropes, a wolf throws a chair at the wrestler’s back and a shark and a piranha enter the ring wearing chicken costumes, and one asks, “Have you ever been deboned by a chicken?” Several characters wrestle with another character and they are thrown around a ring, kicking and trying to unmask them. Several characters jump on a snake and stretch and twist him. A large cat punches a table in frustration and dents it. A fox sails through the air wearing a jetpack.
► A cat threatens to expose someone else as a thief and we see a video of the character stealing a precious item. A police commissioner yells and marches through members of the press, through the station and slams the door to her office. Several characters plan to steal a watch that controls a rocket. A shark pretends to be the officiant at a wedding ceremony and yells startling the bride and groom and the audience.
► A wolf and a fox spar in a gym and punch each other; the fox kicks the wolf and he falls back into a pile of pads and punches him in the eye (we see a bruised eye). A piranha becomes enraged and says that he wants to tear someone “limb from limb.” A snake and a bird stand around a boy holding a hamster in a cage and ask him, “You gonna eat that?” A cat talks about stealing lollipops when she was young.
► A shark pushes a car in a street and is thrown over the top when the driver slams on the brakes. A wolf drives a car that appears to be breaking down, spewing exhaust and running rough; he bumps into another car when parallel parking and causes damage to the bumper. A shark throws a cellphone far in the distance and others complain that it was their only phone. A car falls apart and its doors fall off the frame. A wolf throws a computer toward a flaming forge to destroy it, but it bounces off the door and falls to the floor.
► A wolf applies for work at a bank and is declined when we hear that this was a bank he had robbed. A wolf receives collection and eviction notices in the mail. A character says, “I almost make pee pee accident” when she was startled.
► A piranha and a snake are seen inside a space suit and floating through space; the piranha flatulates and we see green gas fill the helmet and he flatulates several more times causing the suit to inflate and the snake complains. A piranha flatulates and we hear the sound and see a cloud of green gas. A snake spits out a box wrapped like a present and it is covered with goo.

The Bad Guys 2 LANGUAGE 2

 – 1 mild scatological term, 3 anatomical terms, name-calling (monsters, little snake, mango with teeth, sugar beak, spicy, popito, shady, mangy, feisty, little miss lollipop, extra, hurtful, snitches, scaly butt, gross, old [scatological term deleted]), exclamations (butter my crumpets, what the hairbrush, oh boy, are you kidding me, snitches get stitches and swim with the fishes, uh-oh, oh my goodness, oh my, Namaste, what the…, what the thorax), 1 religious exclamation (e.g. Holy shrimp). | profanity glossary |

The Bad Guys 2 SUBSTANCE USE

 – Characters at a wedding hold glasses of champagne.

The Bad Guys 2 DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Being bad guys, stealing, power, second chances, clean slates, crime sprees, secrets, hope, MacGuffins, respect, fear, rejection, suspicion, spies, hopelessness, heroes.

The Bad Guys 2 MESSAGE

 – You have to give people a reason to trust you.