2017 · animation · comedy · family
The Boss Baby
Directed by Tom McGrath1h 37m2017
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.
Our read: The Boss Baby (2017) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · comedy · family entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- funny
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How The Boss Baby feels to watch.
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“You want loud, gag-heavy family animation where a suit-wearing baby runs the show.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if baby-business jokes and DreamWorks chaos grate on adult ears.
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