The Boss Baby October 25, 2018April 11, 2022 Admin What’s the Tomatometer®? Critics SIGN UP | LOG IN MOVIES TV SHOWS NewRT PODCAST NEWS SHOWTIMES TRENDING ON RT Tokyo Vice The Northman Everything Everywhere All At Once Most Popular Movies WATCH TRAILER THE BOSS BABY PG 2017, Kids & family/Adventure, 1h 37m 53% TOMATOMETER180 Reviews 51% AUDIENCE SCORE25,000+ Ratings WHAT TO KNOW CRITICS CONSENSUS The Boss Baby‘s talented cast, glimmers of wit, and flashes of visual inventiveness can’t make up for a thin premise and a disappointing willingness to settle for doody jokes. Read critic reviews YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE 69% 69% Cars 3 59% 51% Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch 91% 71% Teen Titans GO! to the Movies 63% 56% Peter Rabbit 88% 72% Pete’s Dragon WHERE TO WATCH Rent/buy Rent/buy Rent/buy RATE AND REVIEW WANT TO SEE THE BOSS BABY VIDEOS 2:09 Pro Phone Tips With Alec Baldwin: Exclusive Interview 1:53 The Boss Baby: Trailer 2 2:22 The Boss Baby: Trailer 1 1:58 The Boss Baby: Teaser Trailer 1 3:38 The Boss Baby: Official Clip – Tim vs. Baby Gang 2:48 The Boss Baby: Official Clip – Brotherly Love 3:23 The Boss Baby: Official Clip – New Baby Brother 2:49 The Boss Baby: Official Clip – Baby Vomit Fountain 3:39 The Boss Baby: Official Clip – Saving Puppies and Parents 4:40 The Boss Baby: Official Clip – BabyCo Headquarters 2:36 The Boss Baby: Official Clip – Where Babies Come From 3:31 The Boss Baby: Official Clip – Catch that Baby! 3:01 The Boss Baby: Official Clip – Puppy Pants 4:48 The Boss Baby: Official Clip – A Family of My Own 2:09 Pro Phone Tips With Alec Baldwin: Exclusive Interview 1:53 The Boss Baby: Trailer 2 2:22 The Boss Baby: Trailer 1 1:58 The Boss Baby: Teaser Trailer 1 3:38 The Boss Baby: Official Clip – Tim vs. Baby Gang 2:48 The Boss Baby: Official Clip – Brotherly Love 3:23 The Boss Baby: Official Clip – New Baby Brother 2:49 The Boss Baby: Official Clip – Baby Vomit Fountain 1 2 3 4 View All Videos (14) THE BOSS BABY PHOTOS 1 2 3 4 5 View All Photos (24) MOVIE INFO 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. The most unusual Boss Baby (Alec Baldwin) arrives at Tim’s home in a taxi, wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase. The instant sibling rivalry must soon be put aside when Tim discovers that Boss Baby is actually a spy on a secret mission, and only he can help thwart a dastardly plot that involves an epic battle between puppies and babies. Rating: PG (Some Mild Rude Humor) Genre: Kids & Family, Adventure, Animation, Comedy Original Language: English Director: Tom McGrath Producer: Ramsey Ann Naito Writer: Michael McCullers Release Date (Theaters): Mar 31, 2017 Wide Release Date (Streaming): Jul 25, 2017 Box Office (Gross USA): $174.9M Runtime: 1h 37m Distributor: 20th Century Fox Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital, SDDS, Datasat Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1) CAST & CREW Alec Baldwin Boss Baby Voice Miles Christopher Bakshi Tim Voice Tobey Maguire Narrator Voice Jimmy Kimmel Dad Voice Lisa Kudrow Mom Voice Steve Buscemi Francis Francis Voice Show all Cast & Crew CRITIC REVIEWS FOR THE BOSS BABY All Critics (180) | Top Critics (49) | Fresh (95) | Rotten (85) A funny premise and Alec Baldwin aren’t enough to save this wet blanket of a kids’ movie. August 10, 2017 | Full Review… K. Austin CollinsThe Ringer TOP CRITIC The smartly written The Boss Baby lightly takes on commercialism while delivering a variety of witty gags that sound charmingly smug coming from Alec Baldwin’s mouth. April 14, 2017 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review… Roxana HadadiChesapeake Family Magazine TOP CRITIC The jokes are decidedly one-note, but still, I admit: I laughed. April 9, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… Simran HansObserver (UK) TOP CRITIC An absolutely standard-issue doody-joke-and-pop-culture-reference effort from the folks at Dreamworks, of roughly the same trenchant wit and political insight of their many, many ‘Shrek’ and ‘Madagascar’ movies. April 8, 2017 | Full Review… Jason BaileyFlavorwire TOP CRITIC The joke starts well, but the formula gets repetitive. April 6, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… Kate MuirTimes (UK) TOP CRITIC It’s disposable fun. April 6, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… Peter BradshawGuardian TOP CRITIC It becomes less interesting as it grows more convoluted. November 1, 2021 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review… Matt BrunsonFilm Frenzy A pleasant diversion for big and small but the story and its lessons feel like things we’ve seen done before and done better. February 28, 2021 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review… Richard CrouseRichard Crouse It got me to chuckle a few times, director McGrath keeps things moving at a lively pace, and as far as family-friendly entertainment, it does the trick. May 5, 2020 | Full Review… Steven ProkopyThird Coast Review The film’s strength is Baldwin, who kills it in this movie and his comedic timing clearly shines through. January 7, 2020 | Full Review… Phumlani S LangaChannel24 (South Africa) It’s a fun one for the family, with jokes for adults, too. September 6, 2019 | Full Review… Linda and Al LernerMovies and Shakers It will keep younger viewers occupied with its colourful animation and silly fun for 90 odd minutes while giving their parents the occasional chuckle on its way to its predictable conclusion. March 22, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review… Sameen AmerThe Express Tribune (Pakistan) View All Critic Reviews (180) AUDIENCE REVIEWS FOR THE BOSS BABY Mar 15, 2018 There is absolutely no excuse for this crappy animation to have been nominated for the Academy Awards (or anything other than the Razzies, which is what it deserved), since everything we see here is poorly thought out, the gags are pedestrian and terribly unfunny, and the plot just lame. SHOW MORE Carlos MSUPER REVIEWER Feb 17, 2018 I remember having a conversation with my friend, during my exodus, where I lamented the fact that, at that time, I hadn’t been able to watch any movies for months. I mentioned to her that one of the last movies I watched was Big Momma’s House 2. I didn’t really actually watch it, I was just using the laptop and it was playing on tv, so I left it on as background noise. I said that I was saddened that this was one of the last movies I watched, but also mentioned that I would watch it for a week straight if it meant I’d have electricity back. I also mentioned to her that when I had Netflix back, I’d watch the stupidest thing I could think of. This movie and the last Smurfs CG movie came up. This is what brings us together this evening. Which is not to say that I think this is a stupid movie, but it’s something silly and for kids. I think that’s what I meant by stupid more than anything else. Having said all of that, I don’t know what you want me to say about this movie. I mean I know what I want to say. What I mean is that this just isn’t what I would call a good movie. I suppose my run of good-to-great movies ever since I came back had to end eventually. It’s not bad, but it’s a painfully average little movie. DreamWorks Animation will never be Pixar, at least A-team Pixar, that much is obvious. But they’ve been struggling to produce high quality movies ever since the release of How To Train Your Dragon 2 in 2014. I haven’t seen Captain Underpants, but I hear it’s pretty good. But, from my perspective, the only good movie since then for DreamWorks has been King Fu Panda 3. And it’s not like that was an incredible movie to begin with. This doesn’t change that run of substandard movies. You know things are bad for you, creatively speaking, when ILLUMINATION ENTERTAINMENT (the assholes responsible for Despicable Me and the awful minions) have made a better movie than you have in almost four years with Sing. That’s scraping the bottom of the barrel. Perhaps it sounds as if I’m being too harsh on this movie. I don’t actually mean to be, because this was just a middle of the road movie. I think there’s a decent enough story here with Tim feeling that he’s been replaced in his parents’ hearts by the new baby, who works for this Baby Corp, a company that is hell-bent on making sure that puppies don’t replace babies as the most loved thing in the world. Yes, really. That’s the plot. The brothers, at first, have difficulties in getting along. After one incident where Tim is careless with his baby brother, he is grounded. Before we move on, I feel that I need to point out that when I say there’s a decent idea here that I mean exploring the dynamic between the brothers and how, in some cases, siblings, in some cases, due tend to feel like they’re being ignored and/or replaced by the new baby. The whole thing about Baby Corp trying to ward off irrelevance from Puppy Co is as silly as these movies get, to put it nicely. Anyway, after Tim is grounded, he and Boss Baby come up with a plan to find out what find out what Puppy Co is planning so Boss Baby can go back to Baby Corp and Tim can have his parents all to himself again. Of course things don’t go as planned as the brothers start to bond and enjoy each other’s presence. You’ve seen this before, you’ll see it again. The idea that this baby isn’t really a baby, but someone who displays intelligence and speaks fluently has already been done countless times. More famously by Family Guy. Given that this a kids’ movie, you obviously have to expect things to be more toned down. But they don’t really do much here, they just expect the idea that it’s a talking, walking baby will provide laughs in and of itself. There’s a few chuckles here and there, the most memorable concerning the Elvis impersonators. Well it’s not the whole scene, more like the interaction between one of the impersonators and the boys, who are dressed up like one to board a plane headed to Vegas. The most entertaining character in the entire movie, in my opinion, has to be Tim’s aggressive Wizard alarm clock. I was gonna say Wizzie (as Tim calls him) was passive-aggressive, but Wizzie didn’t bother with that. He’s a character that I need more of, because he was the only consistently entertaining thing in the entire movie. Anyway, the movie hits all of the story beats you would expect. Tim and Boss get closer and they start to rethink their arrangement. Tim learns that it is possible to share their parents’ love equally and Boss learns what it’s like to have a family that cares for him. Simple and basic. There’s nothing special about it, but it is what it is. I think the main problem that I have with this is the fact that it’s just not that funny. This was never meant to be a deep and complex character study on the nature of brotherhood. This was just meant to give you a couple of laughs and a couple of laughs they do NOT provide. Again, they rely way too much on the concept of the baby being voiced by Alec Baldwin. That’s it. No real effort was put into the comedy, even though there’s flashes of a better movie that was shifted and changed into something else by the time it was finally produced. I will say that the ending, while a little sentimental, was sweet. The animation is nothing home to write about, it’s colorful enough, but it lacks an identity all its own. This looks like every DreamWorks B-movie available. There’s nothing about the animation that stands out at you, like all the little details you’d pick up on an A-team Pixar movie. Hell, even A-team DreamWorks Animation has these small details that they don’t bother to put into films that they’re not fully behind. Voice acting is fine, another part of this that offers nothing home to write about. Alec Baldwin is, essentially, playing himself and, no shit, he’s good at that. No one else really stands out enough to single out. Other than James McGrath, who voiced Wizzie. There’s really not much else I can say about this movie. If you’re in the mood for something harmless and inoffensive, then this is the movie for you. But it doesn’t provide the consistent laughs to be a truly good or memorable movie. SHOW MORE Jesse OSUPER REVIEWER Nov 27, 2017 the juxtaposition between imagination and reality is brilliant, and the story strikes a great balance between HILARITY AND HEARTWARMING. On the flip side, some elements are overly repeated (I’ll puke if they Play blackbird one more time!), the chase & fight scenes are annoying, the storY gets a bit complicated for a PG film (not to mention the plot-holes this creates), and there’s so much room to edit this down by a good 15 minutes. SHOW MORE Ed KSUPER REVIEWER Jul 31, 2017 A truly original take on sibling rivalry and it is funny and oh so touching. Alec Baldwin is perfect as the voice of the Boss Baby and the rest of the cast delivers. Drawn imaginatively and a great script makes this one entertaining animated feature! SHOW MORE Christopher OSUPER REVIEWER See all Audience reviews QUOTES There are no approved quotes yet for this movie. MOVIE & TV GUIDES Best Horror Movies Top 200 of all time “Rotten Tomatoes Is Wrong” Our new podcast Worst Superhero Movies Thanks, Squad Best Netflix Series and Shows What to binge right now View All TOP HEADLINES 2021’s Most Anticipated Movies Best Netflix Shows and Series To Binge The 100 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now The Best TV Shows of 2020 Best Movies Off the Radar From 2020 150 Essential Comedy Movies To Watch Now 100 Best Movies on Amazon Prime To Watch Best Horror Movies of 2020 Ranked View All Verified Purchase
