A story about how a new baby's arrival impacts a family, told from the point of view of a delightfully unreliable narrator, a wildly imaginative 7 year old named Tim.
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My 1 and 3 year olds love this movie! It's very witty and even entertaining for my husband and I! Highly recommend!
The movie has some good animation and a decent story. However, the comedy in this movie was taken too far. For example, there are multiple naked baby shots. Also, in the scene where The Boss baby tell time to suck the pacifier, they use the term 'You suck it!".
It seems like every year we get some lackluster animated movies with famous voice actors. This is another one of them. I don't care if it made $499 million, it's far from good! Why? Let me tell you. What if you take Alec Baldwin, and have him play Alec Baldwin, but in a baby's body? Sound dumb? That's because it is. The Boss Baby is just a dumb movie, and it's not enjoyably dumb like Turbo (2013). The plot doesn't make much sense and is easily predictable, (The scene where Tim and the Boss Baby get in a fight at a crucial plot point has been done so many times, I might as well have been watching "The Secret Toy Story of Shreks.") the characters are easily forgettable, (I don't even remember most of their names) the humor is almost nothing more than low brow baby jokes and dumb pop culture references, and the writing is TERRIBLE! I will give it this: The animation can have its energetic and enjoyable moments, and the films main selling point, Alec Baldwin, does deliver a solid performance. In fact, the voice acting in general is pretty good, it's just that the material that the actors and animators were given is just WEAK! And the reason I say it's not Oscar worthy is because it was given a nomination for Best Animated Feature at the 90th Academy Awards. Dreamworks, WHY DID YOU PUSH FOR ONE OF YOUR WORST FILMS EVER to be nominated for something that only your BEST best are supposed to be nominated for?! Of all their Best Animated Feature nominations, from the first two Shreks, to the How to Train Your Dragons, to the first two Kung Fu Pandas, to Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, to The Croods, to Puss In Boots, to Shark Tale, this is right up there with Shark Tale as their least deserving nominee. Sorry Dreamworks, you should've known that this will never be an Oscar winning movie. P.S. Did they forget that they had a superior movie in the same year, Captain Underpants, that's far more Oscar worthy than this? P.S.S. Given that Tom McGrath directed the Madagascar trilogy and Megamind, he could've done much better. P.S.S.S. (Last thing, don't worry) Dreamworks I didn't ask for a sequel, almost no one did, so why are we getting a Boss Baby 2 in three years? Let's just hope they pull off a "Madagascar 2" and improve on it greatly with the second film.
The movie had a lot of potential with its very different and imaginative plot line, but it failed to deliver. I know the target audience is young children, but the plot was often times confusing and contradictory as they made people question reality versus imagination without concluding it properly. It was oft times creepy and some scenes I thought inappropriate for younger children. Although there were admittedly one or two good scenes in the movie, I wouldn't recommend watching "The Boss Baby".
