On the other side of the coin, MovieWeb 's Julian Roman actually thinks The Bad Guys 2 "surpasses" the original movie. He praised the movie's plot and the way it utilizes the Bad Guys cast, and how each of the characters was served. He also wrote about the visuals of the follow-up, saying:

One supposes the Australian book series “The Bad Guys,” written by Aaron Blabey, was conceived in response to such a question. “The Bad Guys 2,” as its title indicates, is the second film about the anthropomorphic animal bank robbers turned do-gooders,