“The Bad Guys” well-bred in the Tarantino way

• A wolf, a tarantula, a snake, a shark and a piranha are "The Bad Guys" from the new animated production from Dreamworks studios.

  
  

  Gifted burglars must try to make amends after a failed heist.

• For his first production, Pierre Perifel mixes cinephile references in the manner of Quentin Tarantino.

They are mean but we love them!

Pierre Perifel

A wolf dubbed in French by Pierre Niney is the leader of a pack of reputedly dangerous animals (a tarantula, a piranha, a snake and a shark) who commit ingenious heists.

“

is a bit of Quentin Tarantino for children, confides Pierre Perifel to

.

I thought a lot about

and

but also

.

Like the director of

, Pierre Perifel is a cinephile and has mixed all sorts of cinematographic influences into his story, which becomes original thanks to these finely balanced references.

"Young people will probably not recognize the nods to

,

or

which can make older people smile", specifies the French filmmaker.

Cinephile and inspired

“The hardest part was making these critters cute,” explains Pierre Perifel.

Then came the challenge of animating not-so-obvious animals, like a spider that has lots of legs and a snake that doesn't.

To complicate matters further, everyone is forced to turn nice after getting nabbed in the middle of an award show.

A political vixen and a billionaire guinea pig watch over their passage to the camp of good.

On the graphic level, Pierre Perifel drew his inspiration from the books

by Aaron Bbley but also from numerous animated films featuring animals with human attitudes.

“I worked as an animator on the

saga , he explains.

So it's a style that I know well.

Here again, the filmmaker has managed to innovate on a theme that one might have thought worn out.

Its charismatic heroes don't fit the Dreamworks mould.

“I thought a lot about Franquin but also about Akira Toriyama and Uderzo for their drawings,” he insists.

And this cocktail mixing the aesthetics of

,

and

is ​​explosive on the screen.

“In this too, I am close to Tarantino, admits Pierre Perifel.

I drew on what I love to make a first film that brings together many of my fan passions.

» And it works:

is a joy of film whose abundant rhythm leads the viewer into a festival of suspense and bursts of laughter.

Looking forward to a second installment!

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