The Bad Guys 2

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(PG, 104 minutes)

2 stars

There's a lovely gag for the movie buff in this animated sequel: a coveted item is called MacGuffinite (If you know what that refers to, skip to the next paragraph).This is, of course, a reference to the MacGuffin beloved of Alfred Hitchcock, something that gets the story going but isn't all that important in itself (the stolen money in Psycho , for example).

There are a few such subtle gags in this movie but not, perhaps, enough of them to keep older viewers consistently diverted: the movie's pleasures lie more in the visuals and some ef

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