The Boss Baby

Director: Tom McGrath

Overview

A seven-year-old boy (voice of Miles Christopher Bakshi) has his life turned upside down by his new brother, an infant known as the Boss Baby (Alec Baldwin) who wears a suit and has the brusque manner of a businessman. However, the two are forced to get past their initial antagonism when they must work together on a mission of espionage involving the rivalry between babies and puppies. Steve Buscemi, Lisa Kudrow, Jimmy Kimmel, and Tobey Maguire also lend their voices to this animated comedy, which is based on a picture book by Marla Frazee.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/05/2018
UPC:	0191329060780
Original Release:	2017
Rating:	PG
Source:	Dreamworks Animated
Language:	English
Time:	1:38:00
Sales rank:	4,368

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Chris Miller	Actor,Captain Ross
Lynnanne Zager	Launch Computer
Alec Baldwin	Baby
Steve Buscemi	Francis E. Francis
Jimmy Kimmel	Father
Lisa Kudrow	Mother
Miles Christopher Bakshi	Tim,Tim's Daughter/Girl/Little Girl
James McGrath	Voices,TV Chef
Conrad Vernon	Eugene
ViviAnn Yee	Staci
Eric Bell Jr.	Triplets
David Soren	Jimbo
Edie Mirman	Big Boss Baby
James Ryan	Voices
Walt Dohrn	Photographer
Jules Winter	Crying Boy/Little Boy/Boy
Brian Hopkins	Airport Security Guard
Glenn Harmon	Airport Announcer
Joseph Izzo	Elvis Impersonators
Andrea Montana Knoll	Flight Attendant
Chloe Albrecht	Hazmat Baby
Johan Golden	Voices
Lars Sundsbø	Voices
Henriette Steenstrup	Voices
Jan Gunnar Røise	Voices
Jan Sælid	Voices
Marit Synnøve Berg	Voices
Tore Fredrik Dreyer	Voices
Tobey Maguire	Older Tim/Narrator,Narrator
Steve Mazzaro	Composer
Hans Zimmer	Composer

Technical Credits

Michael McCullers

Ramsey Ann Naito	Producer
Thom Brennan	Sound Effects
Denise Nolan Cascino	Producer
Anita Cannella	Sound Effects
Rebecca Huntley	Producer
Michael McCullers	Screenwriter
Tom McGrath	Director
Christi Hilt	Casting
Leslee Feldman	Casting
Paul Ottosson	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

You're free to entertain any theory you want about where babies come from, but it's particularly lovely to envision a conveyor belt in the clouds, where cute little babies (and their cute little tushies) are bathed and powdered and pacifiered in preparation for their gentle descent into the arms of loving families. And who runs this place? Every once in a while, a humorless baby who's uninterested in cooing and gurgling comes down the line, and the only solution is to shunt all of them into managing the whole stork factory. But due to a bureaucratic mix-up, one of these type-A newborns (dressed in sharp Armani with a union-suit flap over the butt) is sent to the family of seven-year-old Tim (voiced by Miles Christopher Bakshi), who isn't happy that this demanding interloper has ruined his status of being an only child. His worst suspicions are confirmed when he hears a gruff, very un-infantile voice (Alec Baldwin's resonant Long Island rasp) emanating from the baby's room, bragging on his Fisher Price phone about how the usual sleep deprivation and hunger strikes are making the adults putty in his hands. The smug, petulant, manipulative, entitled, and easily enraged boss-from-hell Baby is the best part of this movie, echoing the thoughts of older siblings (and parents, if they're willing to admit it) that no matter how cute they are, a bundle of joy is still a bundle of you-know-what to care for. (Baldwin and his recurring role impersonating CEO-turned-POTUS Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live will go uncommented on in this review, although there is a sly wink to Baldwin's iconic work in Glengarry Glen Ross when Baby snatches a treat away from a playgroup flunkie and growls, "Cookies are for closers.") Children's movies and literature are usually afraid to tackle these murderous feelings of sibling rivalry, usually leaning on insincere "but I learned to get along" platitudes at the end. (The exception is Judith Viorst and Arnold Lobel's picture book I'll Fix Anthony, which is fondly remembered by jealous Gen-X siblings as a righteous mouthpiece for their rage over being displaced -- and maybe it's also fondly remembered by the art department here, since all of Baby's toys are of '70s and '80s vintage.) But the brothers' path to mutual love -- and the understanding that love doubles when shared, despite Baby's scoff that anyone who believes in sharing "didn't go to business school" -- is honest and justified by their character arcs. These babies are squeezingly, squee-inducingly adorable -- which makes their cartoon peril in some scenes a little too upsetting, especially for families that left the baby with a sitter to take an older child to the movies. A baby falls down the stairs in one of those circular walker things that the Consumer Product Safety Commission has declared causes tens of thousands of injuries a year! There's also a chase in the backyard involving an explosion that's never made clear if it was real or imaginary, and a cliffhanger denouement that might be too intense for tenderhearted kids. Perhaps the most heartbreaking scene is of the baby factory, with its Metropolis-like infinite rows of tots sitting at gray cubicles for all eternity. Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be middle managers.