Very loosely based on Marla Frazee’s 2010 children’s book of the same name, “The Boss Baby” is the inventively told story of a seven-year-old named Tim (voiced by Miles Christopher Bakshi), whose idyllic childhood is made all the better by his overactive imagination. Most of all, it’s about paying Alec Baldwin an enormous sum of money to say “Cookies are for closers.” 'The Whale' Review: Brendan Fraser Is Towering in a Lesser Darren Aronofskyġ0 LGBTQ Film and TV Creators on the Rise, from Jerrod Carmichael to Isabel SandovalĬhristopher Nolan's Best Shots: 37 Images That Define the Director's Career Those nostalgic underpinnings are also nicely incorporated into the appropriately bubbly score by Hans Zimmer and frequent collaborator Steve Mazzaro.'Aftersun' Review: Paul Mescal Is a Movie Dad for the Ages in Charlotte Wells' Staggeringly Beautiful Debut

Visually, there’s a retro look and feel to the animation that plays affectionate homage to Looney Tunes legends Chuck Jones, Tex Avery and Friz Freleng, while simultaneously drawing upon new wrinkles in computer animation that allow the action to follow the lead of Tim’s vivid fantasy life. They include Steve Buscemi as a former Babycorp exec harboring a serious grudge Tobey Maguire, handling narration as Tim’s older self and James McGrath (the director’s nephew) as Wizzie, Tim’s amusingly theatrical, Gandalf-like, talking wizard alarm clock. While Baldwin, who seems to have cornered the market when it comes to playing conceited man-babies, handily crawls away with the picture (it’s hard to imagine anyone else in the role), he gets solid backup from his fellow voice cast. Even the obligatory bodily function jokes are tastefully executed.

Annecy: DreamWorks Animation Screens First Footage of 'Boss Baby'Īnd it’s one that delivers the entertaining goods while addressing universal truths about family bonds and the fertile, limitless boundaries of a child’s imagination that, like those emotional touchstones in the Toy Story films, feel honest and organic to the storytelling.

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