Soon, Tim learns that the baby can talk like an adult and he introduces himself as 'The Boss'.

Tim is envious of the attention the baby is receiving, not to mention suspicious when the infant acts odd around him, but his parents, being blind to the baby's eccentric behavior, try to convince him that they will grow to love each other. One day, Tim is surprised when a business suit-wearing infant shows up in a taxi at his house, and Ted and Janice proudly call him Tim's little brother. While sleeping Tim begins to wonder where babies come from. After he goes to sleep, we see that Janice is pregnant. While tucking Tim in bed one night his parents ask if he wanted a baby brother Tim declines the offer, saying that he is enough. Those nostalgic underpinnings are also nicely incorporated into the appropriately bubbly score by Hans Zimmer and frequent collaborator Steve Mazzaro.A man named Tim Templeton tells a story through his imaginative point of view as his 7-year-old self who lives his days having fun with his parents, Ted and Janice, in the late 1970's and wishes it to be just the three of them forever. 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. They include Steve Buscemi as a former Babycorp exec harboring a serious grudge Tobey Maguire, handling narration as Tim’s older self and James McGrath (the director’s nephew) as Wizzie, Tim’s amusingly theatrical, Gandalf-like, talking wizard alarm clock. 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. Even the obligatory bodily function jokes are tastefully executed.

Annecy: DreamWorks Animation Screens First Footage of 'Boss Baby'Īnd 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.

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