Will Smith and Martin Lawrence do be tired. Making these Bad Boys movies thirty years on after the first one isn’t easy anymore. But damned if they don’t keep making money! What are two aging celebrities who don’t have any other bankable franchises to do? An animated extension of the brand!
Pixar and Sony’s animation department collaborate to bring you the toy story of two action-figure detectives trying to solve the mysterious murder and dismemberment of a Barbie doll in the playroom. Lawrence voices Scuzz, a by-the-books futuristic law enforcement agent who is close to retirement and wants to wrap up his last assignment as quickly and cleanly as possible. Smith lends his vocal talents to Hoodie, a cowboy doll who thinks he is a US Marshal and is assured that there is a wider conspiracy at play behind the murder.
Hijinks are meant to ensue as the two butt heads over protocol and begrudgingly learn to work together but the creative fatigue is evident from the first frame. There’s probably a bit about Hoodie slapping someone though, a callback that will likely be in each of Will Smith’s projects between now and the end of time.