The Boss Baby's reviews
Media reviews
The Hollywood Reporter
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.
Variety
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 Wrap
There?s a sweet montage toward the end in which Tim and Boss Baby come to realize how much they got out of being brothers; it genuinely touches upon emotion while also demonstrating how often ?The Boss Baby? runs in the opposite direction of real feeling in favor of bombast.
Indiewire
The film pinballs around the inner workings of Tim?s mind with the relentless mania of a sugar rush, adhering to what viewers have come to expect from the studio behind ?Turbo? and ?The Croods? (what Dreamworks lacks in artistry they compensate for with raw energy)
Empire
The Boss Baby is hopped up on energy but never harnesses it effectively. There are laughs and heart buried in this idea somewhere. Shame the film is too hyperactive to find them.
Screen Crush
McGrath and screenwriter Michael McCullers are too preoccupied piling on chase and action scenes to exploit their title?s potential to its fullest. Or maybe the title doesn?t have much potential to exploit; beyond a Glengarry Glen Ross homage or two, there?s not much more to the Boss Baby character than Baldwin?s gruff voice in contrast with the little tyke?s cherubic face and adorable waddle.