The Boss Baby2017

Verdict: 🥉 COULD SEE  When broken down, this movie is actually about how hard it can be for an only child to have a younger sibling. It’s a great theme to explore and this concept is a fun way to explore it. But Boss Baby is made by Dreamworks, a studio who desperately wants a piece of the Pixar pie but has a hard time turning off its frenetic, purposeless, “please laugh,” throw jokes at the wall until something sticks at the box office mentality. There are moments of sincere genius here peppered sparingly amongst a cacophony of lights and sounds. Like a sentient pull-sting toy who can’t stop pulling its own ripcord. If only Boss Baby could be the movie it was supposed to be rather than the movie it is. Extra star for ‘Blackbird’.