Boss Baby Review: Deserves it's Success

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  I have to wrap my head around this one because I feel like I should be ashamed of myself. When I first saw the trailer I had nothing but contempt for it. I thought to myself, what a shit idea for a lame cash grab animated family film.

You know I originally didn't think 'Sing' was going to be anything decent either and now I'm sitting here actually pondering if the Emoji movie doesn't deserve my preemptive malice.



Boss baby was hilarious. I said it, Jesus Christ I actually said it. Not only does most of it's jokes land, but the story itself is actually pretty damn creative and original.
It's simple but has a cute message. In the realm of babies before birth or being delivered out to families, the baby is sorted to be given to a family or be separated so it may be trained for management. The separation occurs based on a test to see how joyous the baby is.

Now the babies in management are actually adults in mind, they grew up but didn't age due to a special milk drink. They run this Baby Co Realm and make certain the world loves, desires to have and are delivered babies.











So this ambitious blonde haired baby played by Alec sends his adult minded self down to a family so he may fulfill a mission for Baby Co. Apparently puppies are getting more love than babies, and the main character's (cue the older brother) parent's are marketing managers at Puppy Co.

 Apparently a new puppy type is being... manufactured which endangers the level of love babies will be offered due to scarcity. As there is only so much love in the world.

So Boss Baby needs to find out what the Puppy Co is doing and what they are cooking up. Meanwhile the older brother is having issues, he doesn't want to share his parents.
After the two duke it out, it really amazed me how well written and fleshed out the two characters became. They learned so much about/from each other that they grew to be able to deal with each other's mannerisms and quirks really well.

Not going to spoil the villain, nor the end of the film, nor how Alec's mission could possibly be a temporary one.
Yet I just MUST include some of the comical elements in this review.
The older brother has a Gandalf  alarm clock and considering this kid's imagination is nuts, the thing talks to him every now and then. Let me give you some of it's dialogue.

“If only I could reach my magical shank, I’d bust us out of this prison.” 

"We have no daylight savings time in the wizarding world, it is only winter and darkness." 

There is also dialogue like this:
While the older brother was reading the baby a story about Hansel and Gretel, the elder brother said,

There are so many wonderfully, "what the fuck" moments in this movie.

Take this for example, 

this baby whom is Alec's muscle tore off the enemy's eye brows, got tossed aside, put the eyebrows on and began running after the enemy again. What the hell!? The animation is so well done and compliments the humor. 

This movie really does teach some business tycoon like ideologies, ethics and definitely themed jokes. I mean the baby has a freak'in toy Mexican for a stress reliever and literally throws money at every problem.  

On the other hand, this film also has alot of heart and becomes very 'love is the answer' in a tasteful way. 

I actually had a pretty good time with this, especially past the first twenty-thirty minutes. I could have done without the older brother's imagination scenes, but whatever. 

Still, every supporting character was like-able, even the silly enemy henchman who only grunted, and especially the boss baby's team of associates.

The way situations were handled or what type of consequences were ongoing involve some truly playful writing, and while the beginning's comedy may not seem that impressive - give it the opportunity. 

Totally worth it. Actually worth it.