Day 330 of the challenge! The Boss Baby almost won an Oscar for best animated feature? But why tho?
Guess I was still in a Rugrats mood or something, because I have no idea why I sat through this mess. Seriously, why was this film nominated? The Boss Baby is fine enough to distract the kids for an hour and 40 minutes (maybe give the adults in the room an occasional chuckle, mostly thanks to Alec Baldwin), but beyond some some nicely stylized fantasy sequences, The Boss Baby has almost nothing going for it.
It always feels moments away from imploding in on itself with all the convoluted (and totally needless) rules and boss baby lore that’s shoved down our throats in the first 30 minutes, sucking all the fun out of it’s wacky premise. What’s worse, despite everything being over explained to us, none of it makes a shred of sense. I can almost hear the execs going “just make the baby say something Alec Baldwin-esque! That’ll fix it!”
There’s some cheap attempts at heart with a moral about accepting love or something, but it’s so shoehorned in and unearned, I honestly couldn’t care less by the time the credits rolled. But hey, the baby likes spicy tuna rolls! That’s funny!