The first and last 15 minutes of The Boss Baby were wonderful. But, the main plot about babies versus puppies, huh? It didn’t really make a whole lot of sense. A master villain develops a permanently lovable puppy? Most dog owners can love their dog as a puppy but also still love the dog as s/he gets older.
The sibling rivalry could have made a decent movie. Or, they could have done a different plot, perhaps against the idea of ‘superbabies.’ That would tie in well when the baby comes back at the end as a normal baby.
It was fun as a rental, I’m not sure it is worth a purchase although I’ll grab it if it is a Black Friday special for $10 on blu ray.
If you saw it with kids, what did they think? The middle of the movie was a bit confusing for me as an adult and I’m not sure a young kid would be able to follow it.
It’s based on a book. I’ve never read it, but I guarantee the book was better. That being said, I doubt the author or the scriptwriters put much thought into the premise.
The movie has nothing to do with Trump. The Boss Baby is only briefly in charge of Babyco and he gives it up. The movie has more in common with James Bond than current American politics.
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It’s a baby in a suit who takes over his household and his voice is by the same guy who plays Trump on SNL. Close enough from the first trailer to turn me off completely.
Some people aren’t smart enough to relate things to other than politics… then there is the rest of society.
And then there are plenty of people who torture, beat up, neglect and even gleefully kill their pets. You’re trying to apply Mature Adult “the world is perfect” logic to a much subtler point.
You go and buy a new smartphone, do you have a big ceremony disposing of the old one? Most likely not. As your smartphone grows older, your excitement surrounding the smartphone likewise diminishes.
But because you have a magical smartphone that physically ages and grows bigger, you associate the fun times of when you were using your smartphone to be the times when it was still a puppy-phone. Hence you wish you could stay in that honeymoon period forever, or the “forever puppy”
There’s a lot of subtle messages going on here. “Sibling Rivalry” is being portrayed as a distribution of love with more love going to the “new baby” and less love going to the “old son”, mid movie we say “there’s enough love to share with everyone”… it isn’t that hard to pick up on, but no one jumps up and screams it (even though we have a loud enough scene that gladly proclaims it)
Young minds are more agile than adult minds with ridged and inflexible thinking. You did not suspend your disbelief and are inherently complaining about having not suspended your disbelief.
Adults, way too often, make strange comments like these about how kids SHOULD be rating something.
Take the teletubbies, imdb will give you plenty of entertainment reading how adult after adult raves on and on about how their adult mind cannot understand what is so good about this show that it must REALLY REALLY suck for their kids… who adore it but they don’t understand why!
Yes I thought it was a weird (but fun) movie but for apparently different reasons.
The weirdness for me was “what is Tim’s imagination and what isn’t?”
It’s established early on that he has a vivid imagination so I figured the baby talking is just in his mind to create the set up of him vs his new brother.
I did NOT expect things to be real, especially when they left the house (at that point the secret plot cannot be 100% in his mind, right?)
However, the puppies vs babies thing was a cute twist.
Everybody loves babies and everybody loves puppies. Awwwww… So why not have those two strife for love-supremacy?
I didn’t assume that Baldwin was hired because of him doing Trump. I assumed it was because he was Jack Donaghy, CEO on 30 Rock for like 8 years. A role that was much closer to the baby role than Trump.
EERA, you’re new here, so you might not be familiar with our rules. Personal insults like this are not allowed in any of our forums other than the BBQ Pit. You’re free to express your opinions (one way or the other) of a movie, and you’re free to disagree with other posters, but you can’t call them “not smart enough”. Don’t do this again.
…On June 12, 2014, DreamWorks Animation announced plans to release the film on March 18, 2016, with the film being directed by Tom McGrath.[11] On September 30, 2014, Alec Baldwin and Kevin Spacey joined the film, Baldwin would play a baby and Spacey would play the villainous role. Ramsey Naito and Denise Cascino would produce the film based on a script by Michael McCullers.[4] On December 11, 2014, it was announced that The Boss Baby had been removed from the schedule and replaced with Kung Fu Panda 3, with a new release date yet to be announced.[12] On January 22, 2015, the film’s release date was pushed back to January 13, 2017,…
This movie was planned well before Trump entered the presidential race. In addition, it is based on a book written in 2010.
I didn’t catch any political satire in the movie. The IMDB trivia section lists quite a few moments which pay homage to earlier movies, but nothing in regards to politics.
Here is the first trailer There is nothing there that reminds me of Trump, besides that the baby is wearing a suit as almost every male politician does. The Boss Baby ask for sushi, not the fast food that Trump is known for.
FWIW, I didn’t catch anything political in the trailer, either. It’s just that the baby uses that voice, which I didn’t realize belonged to Baldwin until later.