Surprise, "The Boss Baby" is Good.
Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at 3:42PM A slightly shorter version of this review was originally published in Nathaniel's column at Towleroad...
With a childish man-baby terrorizing us from the White House who needs a movie about one? Shocked as I am to say this… “surprise!,” this past weekend’s #1 film The Boss Baby is actually good. For those fearing a one-joke gimmick film (Baby in a suit. Get it?), fear not. The new Dreamworks comedy actually has at least five broad joke topics. In descending order of amount of miniature jokes mined from the big ones:
- Corporate culture
- Babies
- Childhood imagination
- Sibling rivalry
- Puppies
While Dreamworks pictures largely still lack the emotional complexity of their Pixar counterparts — this isn’t Inside Out or anything, let's not get carried away — at their best they still offer plenty to giggle with and gawk at for fans of animated comedy...