The Boss Baby

Boss Baby,’ ‘zookeeper’s Wife,’ ‘power Rangers,’ ‘personal Shopper

... it’s rated PG-13: This movie takes place during WWII and the Holocaust, and there are disturbing and violent images including scenes of bombing, the Warsaw uprising, and execution of Jews. A young girl is raped (off screen), and a woman faces a sexual predator. There is some bigoted language, and human and animal characters are injured and killed. Minimum age: High school. Family discussion: How did Antonina’s love of animals help her in taking care of her “guests”? Why was it important to her to treat her “guests” to gracious entertainment in the evenings? What should she have said to her husband about Heck. If you like this, try: The book by Diane Ackerman. “Personal Shopper”. Why it’s rated R: Nudity, brief explicit sexual situation, murder with graphic image, supernatural situations and images, smoking, very strong language. Minimum age: Mature teens. Family discussion: Why did Maureen want to try on the clothes and shoes? Why did she answer the texts? Would you want to see a ghost. If you like this, try: “The Clouds of Sils Maria” with ...

The Boss Baby

... Tom Mc Grath (of the “Madagascar” films), working from a script by Michael Mc Cullers, tries to use the it’s-all-in-Tim’s-mind premise to turn “The Boss Baby” into a variation on “Inside Out”: not just a daffy comic trifle about an authoritarian tot, but a timeless tale of the imagination, and of how kids use it to ease their heartache. The trouble is, instead of taking us deeper into a child’s reality the way “Inside Out” did, “The Boss Baby” is at once overly busy and oddly detached from a child’s reality. The conceit stays locked on that one literal level (though occasionally we see what Tim’s parents see — just two kids playing), and so basically we’re watching an elaborately kooky junior buddy movie that pretends to be about “experience” but is really about throwing an overly arduous chase comedy in the audience’s face. Commercially, ...

The Boss Baby’ Delivers Subtle Laughs

... film that became stretched out like a piece of gum until the taste grew stale. An army of animators — no, really, the endless end credits are staggering to sit through — have been employed to make a 12-course banquet out of a whimsical board book by Marla Frazee, which introduced the suit-wearing toddler. Onscreen, alternate realities mix with several exciting chase sequences, Elvis impersonators, montages and moments of tenderness. Screenwriter Michael Mc Cullers, an alumnus of “Saturday Night Live” who went on to write some of the “Austin Powers” movies, has built an insane plot to accommodate Frazee’s briefcase-wielding, spicy tuna roll-loving parody of 1980 s avarice. Both the book and film share the same premise — that a baby’s arrival changes a family. The movie version is told from the point of view of a 7-year-old only child with a swoop of hair (Miles Bakshi) whose idyllic world is shattered by the arrival of son No. 2 (Baldwin). It gets worse: The new baby can both talk and scheme. He’s actually undercover ...

A Bouncing Bundle Of Fun

... ties up any loose ends. Of course, the concept of infants with not so infantile voices is nothing new (see: Stewie on Family Guy , the Look Who’s Talking movies), but in the capable hands of director Tom Mc Grath (co-director of the three Madagascar movies) and screenwriter Michael Mc Cullers ( Mike Myers ’ collaborator on the second and third Austin Powers pictures), The Boss Baby has an agenda all its own. And 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. Even the obligatory bodily function jokes are tastefully executed. While Baldwin, who seems to have cornered the market when it comes to playing ...

Meet The Voices Behind The Animated Characters

... also has several producing credits on his resume, including the upcoming The Best of Enemies and Natchez Burning. Steve Buscemi. Francis E. Francis. Taylor Hill/Film Magic; Courtesy of Dream Works. Steve Buscemi voices Francis E. Francis, the CEO of Puppy Co. He is determined to put Baby Corp. out of business and will do whatever it takes to do so. Buscemi, who recurs as various characters on Portlandia, can be seen in the upcoming films Lean on Pete and The Death of Stalin to be released later this year. Paul Archuleta/Film Magic; Courtesy of Dream Works. Vivi Ann Yee voices Staci in the film. She is the baby’s assistant and tries her best to adhere to her duties, even though she can’t read or write. Yee will appear in the upcoming films I Am Still Here and Color Positive. Eric Bell Jr. Courtesy of Schultz Bros. Photography; Dream Works Animation. Eric Bell Jr. voices the triplets in the film. The three babies are excited to assist the boss baby in the mission. In matching outfits, they are overly eager to help with anything that comes their ...

The Boss Baby,’ ‘ghost In The Shell,’ ‘t2

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The Boss Baby

... touchstones in the Toy Story films, feel honest and organic to the storytelling. Even the obligatory bodily function jokes are tastefully executed. 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. They include Steve Buscemi as a former Babycorp exec harboring a serious grudge; Tobey Maguire, handling narration as Tim’s older self; and James Mc Grath (the director’s nephew) as Wizzie, Tim’s amusingly theatrical, Gandalf-like, talking wizard alarm clock. 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. Those nostalgic underpinnings are also nicely incorporated into the appropriately bubbly score by Hans Zimmer and frequent collaborator Steve Mazzaro. Production company: Dream Works Animation. Cast: ...

What With The Boss Baby Paying Tribute To Beauty & The Beast, Are Disney & Dreamworks Animation Now Finally Declaring A Truce

... theaters, Disney planned on releasing “Flubber,” that studio’s CG-enhanced remake of its 1961 Fred Mac Murray comedy, The Absent-Minded Professor. So did Disney’s plan to kneecap Anastasia ultimately pay off? Given that Fox Animation Studios’ premiere production cost $53 million to make and then only earned $58 million during its initial domestic run, I’d say that the Mouse’s strategy was pretty successful. Anastasia Musical LLC. All rights reserved. Which isn’t to say that – given what Mickey did to her movie – that the Grand Duchess Anastasia was completely down & out. In fact, the stage version of this animated musical begins previewing at the Broadhurst Theatre next week and will then officially open on Broadway on April 24 th. Getting back to how brutal things used to be in Toontown … Just one year after Disney went after Anastasia, the Mouse found itself in a similar sort of showdown with Dream Works Animation. The only problem was that Jeffrey Katzenberg (i.e., the former Chairman of Walt Disney Studios who was first forced ...