By Emilio Frenk.
Director: Tom McGrath
Cast (Voice): Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Jimmy Kimmel, Lisa Kudrow, Miles Christopher Bakshi, Conrad Vernon, James McGrath and Tobey Maguire.
Rating: Poor.
Director Tom McGrath teams up again with Dreamworks Animation Studios and brings “The Boss Baby” and the results unfortunately they aren`t satisfying.
The movie starts with a boy named Tim (Miles Christopher Bakshi), a seven year old that is raised by beloved his parents (Jimmy Kimmel and Lisa Kudrow). Tim has it all and he is the king of the house until one day he receives a big surprise when his parents bring home a baby with a business suit (Alec Baldwin).
This will upset Tim and finds out that the baby is no ordinary baby and he can really talk like an ordinary human being, in fact he is in a secret mission. At the beginning this will be a rivalry between brothers and they both competing to see who can get the better attention from their parents.
Eventually The Boss Baby will make a deal with Tim that consists that if he helps him to stop a dastardly plot from the CEO of Puppy CoFrancis Francis (Steve Buscemi) which is the creation of the forever puppies and eliminate Baby Co for good. If the Boss Baby succeeds he will go away and if he fails he will stay forever with his brother.
Tim accepts but eventually they will be a a bond between brothers. Now both The Boss Baby and Tim are in a race against time to stop Francis Francis to achieve his plot before it`s too late.
“The Boss Baby” had good moments of comedy but at the same time they became redundant.
The major problem of this film was the screenplay written by Michael McCullers, who wrote 2014´s “Mr Peabody and Sherman” was not as clever and fun. The dialogue and the plot of the film are not interesting at all and again for a movie of this genre you need to have a better screenplay. This is the trademark of a good animated feature film.
The animation it was fantastic and the cast were good but the problem is that no matter how hard they tried on making the movie look good the damage was already done.
Alec Baldwin he was good and funny but this cannot save a film.
The plot was all over the place and the characters were by moments annoying.
I do think that if some time would have been invested in rewrites of the film this could have been a very funny animated movie since it had elements to be one.
The ending of the movie doesn´t work and some scenes of the film do not make any sense at all.
I´m surprised for a director like Tom McGrath who directed the three “Madagascar” films and “Megamind” which not only were good movies but had a lot of heart on them. The directing was good for moments and there funny moments but one of the things that I have to mention is that this is so far McGrath`s weakest movie and I hope this is a huge lesson for him.
“The Boss Baby” is one of the biggest dissapointments of this year and when I saw the first trailers back in November I thought there were funny and I was having high hopes of being a funny and entertaining film. It was funny and made me laugh by moments but this was not good enough for a recommendation.