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Good movie but grossly overrated

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what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The story of an unmedicated paranoid schizophrenic boy, who places his newborn brother's life in mortal danger while attempting to live out a hallucination that puts his parents' employer at the centre of a plot to take over the world using genetically modified canines. Great family viewing. 9/10.

It seems like every year we get some lackluster animated movies with famous voice actors. This is another one of them. I don't care if it made $499 million, it's far from good! Why? Let me tell you. What if you take Alec Baldwin, and have him play Alec Baldwin, but in a baby's body? Sound dumb? That's because it is. The Boss Baby is just a dumb movie, and it's not enjoyably dumb like Turbo (2013). The plot doesn't make much sense and is easily predictable, (The scene where Tim and the Boss Baby get in a fight at a crucial plot point has been done so many times, I might as well have been watching "The Secret Toy Story of Shreks.") the characters are easily forgettable, (I don't even remember most of their names) the humor is almost nothing more than low brow baby jokes and dumb pop culture references, and the writing is TERRIBLE! I will give it this: The animation can have its energetic and enjoyable moments, and the films main selling point, Alec Baldwin, does deliver a solid performance. In fact, the voice acting in general is pretty good, it's just that the material that the actors and animators were given is just WEAK! And the reason I say it's not Oscar worthy is because it was given a nomination for Best Animated Feature at the 90th Academy Awards. Dreamworks, WHY DID YOU PUSH FOR ONE OF YOUR WORST FILMS EVER to be nominated for something that only your BEST best are supposed to be nominated for?! Of all their Best Animated Feature nominations, from the first two Shreks, to the How to Train Your Dragons, to the first two Kung Fu Pandas, to Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, to The Croods, to Puss In Boots, to Shark Tale, this is right up there with Shark Tale as their least deserving nominee. Sorry Dreamworks, you should've known that this will never be an Oscar winning movie. P.S. Did they forget that they had a superior movie in the same year, Captain Underpants, that's far more Oscar worthy than this? P.S.S. Given that Tom McGrath directed the Madagascar trilogy and Megamind, he could've done much better. P.S.S.S. (Last thing, don't worry) Dreamworks I didn't ask for a sequel, almost no one did, so why are we getting a Boss Baby 2 in three years? Let's just hope they pull off a "Madagascar 2" and improve on it greatly with the second film.

"The Boss Baby" is a thoroughly annoying animated film recommended for only the most indiscriminate animated lovers. Directed by Washington State animator McGrath who had previously directed the three "Madagascar" films, this displays decent animation but has a plot and characters that grate on viewers like a buzz saw grinding on sheets of metal. I swear, I never wanted to punch a baby before, but watching this film's main character -- a repulsive infant in diapers sneering and barking out orders like a midget nazi -- made me really think about it. Astonishingly, this was nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature, something that motivated me to tell others around me that should this obnoxious cartoon embezzle this award Oscar night, the only type of response it would deserve is for babies to unite in a huge synchronized dump.

I saw the trailer for this computer-animated film at the cinema, it looked like a relatively amusing kids' movie, I became more interested in seeing when it became part of the Awards Season nominations, directed by Tom McGrath (Madagascar, Megamind). Basically seven-year-old Tim Templeton (Miles Christopher Bakshi) has an over-active imagination, and enjoys life with his parents, Ted (Jimmy Kimmel) and Janet (Lisa Kudrow), who work for a puppy factory called Puppy Co. founded by a man named Francis E. Francis (Steve Buscemi). Tim is surprised to see an infant wearing a black business suit carrying a briefcase arriving at his house in a taxi, Tim's parents tell him it is his baby brother. Tim is envious of the attention the baby is receiving, he is also suspicious when the infant acts odd around him. Soon Tim learns that the Baby (Alec Baldwin) can talk like an adult, he introduces himself as "The Boss". Seeing an opportunity to get rid of him, Tim records a conversation between the Boss Baby and other toddlers who are in Tim's house for a meeting (under the guise of a play date) to do something about puppies receiving more love and attention than babies. The Boss Baby and the other infants catch Tim with the recording, the cassette tape is destroyed, the Boss Baby threatens to tear up Tim's favourite stuffed animal if he crosses him. With no evidence to support him, Tim is grounded by his parents, much to his and the Boss Baby's dismay. The Boss Baby apologises to Tim, giving him a pacificer that will transport him to the place he comes from, Baby Corp., where infants with adult-like minds can preserve their youth. The Boss Baby explains that he stays intelligent and youthful with a "Secret Formula", if a baby does not drink it after a period of time, he or she becomes a regular baby. The Boss Baby also explains that he is on a mission to infiltrate Puppy Co., which is unleashing a new puppy, which threatens the love and need for babies everywhere. If he succeeds in discovering what the new puppy is, he will get a portrait on a wall, and a new corner office, with a high chair and a private potty. Tim and Boss Baby overhear the Big Boss Baby (Edie Mirman) threatening to fire him for not bringing information, which would strip him of the formula and strand him with the Templetons, he and Tim agree to work together to keep that from happening. Tim's parents lift the grounding, seeing him bond with the Boss Baby, they take them to Puppy Co. to the "take your child to work day", there they are able to sneak into the backroom where they find plans for a "Forever Puppy". But this turns out to be trap, set by Francis, who used to be the head of Baby Corp. and Boss Baby's idol, he was forced out after becoming lactose intolerant which stopped the formula working properly. Vowing revenge, Francis founded Puppy Co. and intends to have the Forever Puppies overshadow babies by stealing the Boss Baby's secret formula and infecting puppies with it. Tim's parents are tricked into a trip with Francis to Las Vegas, where he plans to launch the Forever Puppy, Francis and his brother Eugene (Conrad Vernon) pose as a babysitter to keep them from interfering. Without a steady flow of formula to maintain his intelligence, Boss Baby starts becoming a normal baby, but they manage to escape Eugene, but they are too late reaching the airport to stop the parents getting onto the flight to Vegas. Tim and Boss Baby let out their frustrations with each other, but they quickly make up, and sneak onto another plane heading to Vegas, filled with Elvis impersonators. They reach the hotel and stall Francis' presentation, furious at their interference, Francis traps Tim's parents under the rocket tat will launch the Forever Puppy worldwide. Tim and Boss Baby defeat Francis, knocking him into a large container of formula, Boss Baby opens the rocket to let out all the puppies, the parents are saved, but his return to baby state is complete, but Tim sings a song to help him down from the rocket, before it launches, now baby Francis is taken away by the authorities. Boss Baby gets promoted and leaves the Templetons, the parents are hypnotised to forget about him, Tim chooses not to forget him, he goes back to being an only child, but he and Boss Baby miss each other. Tim writes a letter to Boss Baby convincing him to live with him as his brother, he returns to the Templetons as a regular baby, named Theodore Lindsey "Ted" Templeton. In the present day, adult Tim (Tobey Maguire), also narrating, finishes his story, he is now father to two daughters, one of which acts like Ted when he was Boss Baby, wearing a business suit. Also starring Eric Bell Jr. as Triplets and ViviAnn Yee as Staci. Baldwin is a good choice as the wisecracking power-hungry tycoon tyke, it is a fairly good story of bickering forced siblings who slowly join forces to win a baby-puppy cuteness war, the script is witty and funny, only occasionally mawkish, and the animation is pretty good, overall it is a fun and reasonable family animated comedy. It was nominated the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film, and it was nominated the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Animated. Worth watching!