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The Boss Baby

2017

Tom McGrath

Animation, Voice: Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Jimmy Kimmel, Lisa Kudrow ...

5.5

9,584

Animation. Comedy. Kids A suit-wearing briefcase-carrying baby pairs up with his seven-year old brother to stop the dastardly plot of the CEO of Puppy Co. DreamWorks Animation and the director of Madagascar invite you to meet a most unusual baby. He wears a suit, speaks with the voice and wit of Alec Baldwin. 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. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Michael Rechtshaffen The Hollywood Reporter	"Words like 'inventive' and 'inspired' are very rarely applied to the parade of (...) animated features that pass through the multiplex each year, but 'The Boss Baby' proves a refreshing exception."	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"'The Boss Baby' (...) feels standard issue and a wee bit tiresome."	NEU
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"Winds up feeling like an amalgam of too many other cartoons you've seen in the last decade. That's a pity because (...) 'The Boss Baby' has sly wit and a fun visual style."	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"'The Boss Baby' might pacify kids, but this dirty diaper of a movie is further proof Hollywood animation needs a change"	NEG
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"The plot is so senseless it could have been written up by bleary, sleep-deprived parents. It’s all just a pretext for a pitiful one-joke movie."	NEG
United States	Neil Genzlinger The New York Times	"The contrast between the helpless-infant stage of life and corporate-speak is funny but fairly high-concept for a kiddie movie, and the plot grows denser as it goes along"	NEU
United States	Darren Franich Entertainment Weekly	"Let me sum up half the gags in this miserable movie: 'Hahaha, money!' (...) Merely mediocre yet disturbingly familiar"	NEG
Canada	Toronto Star	"Tom McGrath (...) has managed to craft a story funny enough to keep sleep-deprived adults and their tiny leaders happy (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	"This is harmless filler, the kind designed for long car rides and cross-country flights. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Brian Lowry CNN	"While DreamWorks Animation's latest movie starts well and ends sweetly, the loud, frenetic middle seems like an awfully good time to squeeze in a nap."	NEU
United Kingdom	John Hazelton Screendaily	"Hyperactive, oddly premised and never quite as endearing as it should be, 'The Boss Baby' is an animated family comedy that seems to have all the right elements but just doesn’t deliver."	NEU

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