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Boss Baby
Boss Baby
7/10
Time for a simple animation that didn't exactly jump out at me but I was willing to go and see after enjoyment I got out of watching Storks and Moana. The trailer was pretty simple and probably showed most of the humour that was expected from the movie anyways. Alec Baldwin was playing a baby in a suit with a plan and it was time to find out what was going down. One major thing that wound me up about the viewing though was that there were two flies constantly landing on projector cover, which got multiplied by 10 and danced across the big screen.
We begin with some narration from Tobey Maguire, who plays the grown up version on the first character we see. Tim Templeton is a young lad with a very active imagination, with loving parents who give him all the time he needs whilst they work at the puppy company. They ask him how he would feel about a little brother, to which he is not best pleased, unawares that his mother is already up the duff. Zoom out to the clouds and over to Baby Corp we see babies after babies being born, not quite sure how, but they go through the motions, first a diaper with some talc, a dummy and some cheeky milk. Going along a conveyor belt, they get tickled and if they laugh they get sent to families and if not, they get an office job. They get given a suit, watch and briefcase along with their new cubicle to work in.
Tim is standing by the window waiting for his parents to arrive home with their new baby and up they pull in a taxi. It's the same baby as we've already seen, Alec Baldwin has now arrived. He strolls up to the front door in his suit and instantly commands the house but with the parents too busy looking to please the new arrival, Tim is instantly shut out. The boy knows there is something out of the ordinary here and wants to find out what it is. He sneaks into the baby's room at night and hears him speaking on his toy phone with the voice of an adult. He seems to be making plans with someone until Tim stubbles in and stops him, forcing him to admit he can talk. Although he thinks that he has something on the baby, its actually the other way around and he pulls out a file on Tim, making fun of his middle name and telling him that if he doesn't shape up, he can get fired. Tim is going to set out to prove that the baby is actually up to no good so he dons his gear and tried to spies on his playdate with other baby associates. Boss Baby gives a presentation about their main enemies, the PuppyCo. The CEO Francis Francis is about to unveil the newest puppy which is sure to replace babies everywhere. When he questions what they have all learnt we have a few giggles, that the notes being taken were actually squiggles and the rest are just anxious at not remembering anything. Once the parents walk in they all put on a baby act so they are none the wiser.
Tim has recorded the conversation but is caught by the babies. This leads to a chase scene in the backyard with some funny moments of them all in child vehicles with a classic car chase but when we see it through the parents eyes its a bog standard pedal car slowly moving and back to the children's eyes we see explosions and stunts. Very clever. Tim runs to the office and Boss Baby is already in the chair like a Bond villain spinning around. He's holding Tim's favourite toy, Lamb-Lamb. Fighting for it, they accidentally rip off his head. Tim goes mental and threatens to throw the baby out of the window until his parents walk in and catch him. The sling sends the tape instead into the road and it gets run over. Back to the drawing board then, but Tim is now grounded.
Boss Baby walks into Tim's room to catch him in tears and he rides the train to his bed side in a suave manner and now he's ready to discuss why he's here. In order to understand the boy must suck a dummy to find the answers he's looking for. The two are then teleported to the BabyCorp as sort of projections, watching how everything works. The place is in the clouds and very bright so by now those flies from earlier are in full display, break dancing across the screen. The Baby explains how it all works and that there were bosses before him, the new one, a female baby rules with an iron fist. He wants to be the most famous, have his own office an personal potty, going on to explain that they drink a special formula to stop the aging. When we see Boss Baby getting demanded that he has results, they both snap back into their bodies and Boss Baby explains that he has to close down PuppyCo or he will have to stay with the family forever. Tim knows he must help him, but only so that he leaves.
The forced brothers stage the fact that they love each other in front of their parents in a few funny scenes or feeding and wearing the same outfits and soon the pop over to their parents work for a bring you child to work day. This is the way they can find out information about the new puppy. When they arrive the parents tell Tim they can leave the baby in the ball pit and spend sometime together but after some thought he decides to stay with Boss Baby. The Baby dresses as a puppy to pass security in a great moment that had me laughing and they enter a room and find the file they need. In a scene that reminded me of Indiana Jones, they must find something to replace the file which ways the same but after this, its simply a trap anyway. They are caught by Eugene, a gigantic man who is dressed as the PuppyCo mascot. He brings them to meet Francis who reveals himself as one of Boss Baby's hero's Super Colossal Big Fat Boss Baby, now all grown. He explains that he was on top, promotion gained, but because he's lactose intolerant, the formula wasn't keeping him young. Now he's after revenge for them booting him out and he's created a puppy that will stay a puppy forever. All he needs is the formula which he takes from Tim's back pack and the brothers are sent on their way.
The parents are picked by Francis to unveil the puppy and the lads are left with Eugene, dressed as a maid, so that they don't stop the process. Without the formula to drink, Boss Baby starts acting like a real baby, in and out of having starry eyes and dribbling. They come up with a plan of pretending to be ill and vomiting over their kidnapper. They ride Tim's bike whilst Eugene follows on a wagon down the streets. The other babies from earlier are called in to help with the chase and succeed in getting the lads to the airport. They watch the plane take off as they are too late and they both blame each other, Boss Baby blaming Tim for not being able to ride his bike faster and Tim blaming the Baby for being a baby at the worst times. Then the usual hurtful thing is said as Tim tells him that Baby knows nothing about a real family.
Hours later, still in the airport, Baby calls Tim the a phone that's next to him and they sort it out and head to Vegas by pretending to be the Pilot's kids. Eugene follows them on the plane so we can imagine there will be one more chase scene. Once on the flight Tim tells Baby to pretend they are pirates and are taking over a ship, for the first time Baby has fun in his life. The boys make it in time for the convention and the unveiling of the puppy. When the boys show themselves to Francis, he locks the parents in a massive heart and wheels them away. As they follow, so does Eugene, as they discover that Francis will be launching the puppies with a rocket. Eugene comes running but is soon disposed of as he falls into a pit of cats, which is a giant litter box. Catching up with Francis, who has a pop of chucking them off a ledge, they have a go at being pirates again and Francis is foiled as he falls into a massive keg of formula. The head to save the parents and stop the puppy launch. Baby turns into a real one again and is stuck on the rocket until we see a moment when Tim sings to him to save him and have him jump towards him. This was originally Tim's song from his parents but earlier we see them sing it to Boss Baby as Tim is jealous, so this has been a massive turn around for him.
Walking over to the formula to sort out Boss Baby, Fat Baby flops out, back younger, he plans revenge until Eugene sticks a dummy in his mouth and says he will raise him the right way this time. Massive flaw! The reason he couldn't stay young was because of the lactose intolerance, so how did this make him younger again? The boys return home and Boss Baby can leave for him promotion with a house full of babies removing all memories that they ever had a second child in the family. Tim chooses not to forget him and flicking back between them both we see them miss each other and they aren't happy even though they got what they wanted. We all know what is coming next as Tim write him a letter and sends him toys, making him quit his job and send himself down the family chute. Sometime later he turns up at the house and both remember each other and set off to have adventures. As we jump to the future, it's back to Toby's voice, who is telling the story to his own daughter as they are about to welcome a new baby. With them is Boss Baby, all grown up and now called Ted. The daughter looks into the delivery room and her new sister raises up and of course, she is wearing a suit.
This was a decent comedy and animation with a good story line. Clever emotional parts were shown but we all knew how it was going to end anyway, that's just the way. Apart from the dancing flies spoiling it a little, it was altogether good and even though the casting was pretty interesting, it really worked. There was one flaw with the story but I doubt many people would have noticed that anyway. With some mild crude humour, this is a watch for any age.
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