The film, from “Madagascar” sight-gag guru Tom McGrath and based on a Marla Frazee novel, is peppered with clever touches.

The brotherly battle royale is on, with the punk with a pacifier trying to organize some counter-espionage against the Puppy Pandering Company and Tim trying to expose the baby for what he really is - a Wall Street goon in diapers. “We can talk about this over a juice box!” But maybe Tim can be reasoned with so nobody gets hurt. “Are you taking over our house? YES you are! Yesss you are!”īut when they’re not looking he’s calling secret meetings with other neighborhood babies, taking calls (on his toy phone) and plotting and scheming. The kid squawks, gurgles, coos and giggles for their parents (Lisa Kudrow and Jimmy Kimmel). Which is why he’s the only one who’s suspicious when his new brother is “delivered in a taxi.” Wearing a (onesie) business suit. He fantasizes assorted hair-raising adventures as a young man of derring do. Tim, voiced by Tobey Maguire as an adult looking back on this nightmare from his past, voiced by Miles Christopher Bakshi in his elementary years, is a boy with a vivid, dark imagination. The whole premise, with Baldwin voicing a baby executive sent undercover to a family to figure out what the pet company employee parents are doing for those sneaky puppy pushers - puppies steal much of the love meant for babies, after all - is going right over the heads of smaller kids.īut anybody who reveled in Baldwin’s corporate Kool-Aid drinking Jack Donaghy of TV’s “30 Rock” cannot HELP but laugh and laugh a lot at this demented riff on a child’s reaction to the demon seed whom his parents have introduced to him as his new baby brother. They won’t get the “Glengarry Glen Ross” reference, or snicker at the fact Alec Baldwin is the voice delivering that line. The sibling rivalry story at the heart of it will probably resonate.īut “Give me BACK that cookie. Maybe the Three Stooges style dope-slaps this not-HR-approved “boss” delivers to his “team,” his parents and others will earn a giggle. They’ll probably get a charge out of the “poof” fart joke during the baby powdering scene. I can’t tell you what tiny tykes will get out of “The Boss Baby,” the latest rude, grownup-joke riddled ‘toon from Dreamworks.

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