The animation is inventive, lively, and imaginative, while the few musical numbers offer some welcome variation to the events and visuals. Because the pacing has the occasional lull, younger viewers are apt to fidget and lose interest at points, while older audiences will likely find themselves being pulled out of the moment and questioning the events. Thankfully, there are also plenty of exciting moments and even some clever one-liners to balance that out. The climax in particular offers enough suspense to draw the audience back in and maintain their attention until the end.

Those nostalgic underpinnings are also nicely incorporated into the appropriately bubbly score by Hans Zimmer and frequent collaborator Steve Mazzaro.In terms of pure entertainment value, The Boss Baby: Family Business has a lot to offer. There are plenty of actions sequences and physical gags that are sure to make young viewers laugh out loud (and probably some parents, too). 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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