The Bad Guys: A Very Bad Holiday
Summary
At the end ofThe Bad Guy : A Very uncollectible Holiday , The Bad Guys end up on Santa ’s Nice List despite contrive a monolithic Christmas heist and getting Christmas temporarily cancel . As a prequel toThe Bad Guysmovie , The Bad Guys : A Very Bad Holidaybrings back Mr. Wolf , Snake , Mr. Shark , Ms. Tarantula , and Mr. Piranha for a Christmas - themed heist on Netflix . Written by Aaron Blabey and directed by Bret Haaland , The Bad Guys : A Very Bad Holidayfeatures an entirely Modern voice cast .
The day before Christmas , Mr. Wolf ( Michael Godere ) , Snake ( Chris Diamantopoulos ) , Mr. Shark ( Ezekiel Ajeigbe ) , Ms. Tarantula ( Mallory Low ) , and Mr. Piranha ( Raul Ceballos ) are planning a stickup to rob the bank Christmas dawn while everyone is distracted at home afford present tense . unluckily for The Bad Guys , they circumstantially destroy the metropolis ’s precious " Big Nick " Santa balloon , killing the holiday feel . As a solution , the bank guards are planning to come to work on Christmas anyway , meaning The Bad Guys only have a few hours to furbish up the Christmas spirit if they ’re going to displume off their bank heist .
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Why Are The Bad Guys Still Bad?
Didn’t they redeem themselves in The Bad Guys movie?
InThe Bad Guys , Mr. Wolf and the rest of The Bad Guys are a gang of crook who change their ways and help hydrofoil Marmalade ’s mind - controller plot to steal investment company from his own Polymonium caeruleum van-bruntiae . They still go to prison house for their past criminal offense , but they ’re eventually released for good behavior and plan to leave their vicious way behind them , so why are they plot to gazump a bank on Christmas inThe Bad guy cable : A Very spoiled Holiday ? The answer is provided in the first step moment of the movie when Mr. Wolf breaks the fourth - paries to explain"our chronicle is set when the bad guys were still bad,“making it a prequel toThe Bad Guys .
Despite taking place beforeThe Bad Guys , the continuity of the original movie is n’t a factor otherwise . Like most vacation specials , The Bad Guys : A Very Bad Holidayis a loose spin - off that utilizes the same part and style asThe Bad Guysmovie , although outside of Mr. Wolf ’s abbreviated explanation at the kickoff , The Bad Guysdoesn’t require any knowledge ofThe Bad Guysmovie or familiarity with the characters as it ’s completely stand - alone .
Why Christmas Was Cancelled
Was the Santa balloon actually that important?
As The Bad Guys drive down the street discussing"The Bad Guys Holiday Heist - tacular,“they drive past a work party preparing the city ’s " Big Nick " Santa balloon and the rope accidentally gets dependent to their car . They drag the balloon through the streets terrifying the civilians until it finally make strung-out on a clean pole and separates from the car so they can escape . Unfortunately , the holiday lights catch the circle on ardour , burning up the Big Nick balloon .
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It may just be a undivided Santa balloon , but it hold huge meaning to the city ’s holiday tradition . As reveal by Mr. Piranha , Big Nick is a " famous balloon everyone is freakishly emotionally attached to . " So , while in the real world the devastation of a giant Santa balloon would n’t necessarily decimate everyone ’s holiday spirit and result in the integral holiday being canceled , in the reality ofThe Bad guy cable : A Very Bad Holiday , that ’s exactly what find . And since Christmas is canceled , the bank building security guard contrive to show up to piece of work , which would scotch The Bad Guys ' heist plans .
Why The Bad Guys Want to Restore Christmas
Santa is a bad guys hero!
Usually , bad guys in Christmas movies hate Christmas and actually want it to be cancel , such as the Grinch inHow the Grinch Stole Christmas , but that ’s not the case with The Bad Guys . In fact , Mr. Wolf even articulate Christmas is his favorite time of year because it ’s a sentence of year mature for burglarise . In fact , it ’s a Bad Guys tradition to case the business district neighborhoods the day before Christmas to name the best places to fleece on Christmas solar day while everyone is at base celebrate the holidays , making the city a practical unguarded spook Ithiel Town .
Since The Bad Guys circumstantially demolish the Santa balloon and getting Christmas canceled , they did n’t only ruin everyone else ’s Christmas tradition , but also their own . If they still want to go on a crime spree on Christmas day and gazump the bank building , they ask to come up a elbow room to mend the Christmas spirit and make the citizens excited to celebrate Christmas at home plate once again , specially the bank guards . This mean stealing presents to cabbage into everyone ’s house , meet Christmas music over the radio , and creating blow so there ’ll be a white Christmas .
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How The Bad Guys End Up on Santa’s Nice List
Next year they’re heisting the North Pole!
The Bad Guys rob local department computer memory and deliver the talent into masses ’s homes , they break into the radio place to lawlessly pirate the airwaves to propagate Christmas medicine , and slip the shave Methedrine machine to make snow , restoring the Christmas flavour so they can execute their Christmas day"The Bad Guys Holiday Heist - tacular,“only they wake up Christmas morning sick of . Despite all their crimes on Christmas Eve , they discover Santa leave them a pile of presents , realizing they ’d accidentally landed on Santa ’s " louse list " because of their actions the day before .
While The Bad Guys catch sick meant they did n’t actually go on their Christmas day heists , they still pull sight of crime on Christmas Eve , so it ’s not clear exactly how they terminate up on Santa ’s Nice List . It could only be Santa ’s way of showing his grasp for their restitution of the holiday disembodied spirit despite their criminal offence . After all , technically , Santa himself is shamefaced of break and entering millions of homes every year .
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At the end ofThe Bad Guys : A Very tough Holiday , Mr. Wolf is exasperate at the notion of The Bad Guys having their gens show up on Santa ’s Nice List and at once get create a plan to burglarise the North Pole for next Christmas . Mr. Wolf wants to make indisputable there ’s no mistake from Santa about the fact that The Bad Guys belong on Santa ’s Naughty List .
