It’s a brilliant storytelling technique because it frees the film up to be zany and larger-than-life while also allowing it to be logical and grounded. To Tim and Boss Baby, it’s occurring with the same intensity and speed as an actual car chase but to the outside spectator (his parents in this case), the chase is happening at the speed you’d expect from a toddler chasing his little brother on his bike. Tim is having this ‘car chase’ with The Boss Baby – using toys of course. There’s several examples of this throughout the film but not wanting to get into spoiler territory, I’ll discuss a scene that showcased this in the trailer. The film is told from the viewpoint of Tim, who being a child with a wild imagination allows the story to often be ridiculous and out of control while still seeming logical and well-planned. This film reminded me a lot of 2015’s Inside Out. While Boss Baby lacks the overall quality that anything Disney and Pixar put their names on, it does do well to take a major life event that most people go through and turn it into an adventure with humour and high stakes. Not only can this baby (Alec Baldwin) talk and think like an adult but it’s come to Tim’s home to show him who’s The Boss! Tim doesn’t take the prospect of having to share his parents’ love well and is even more shocked by the ‘baby’ his parents bring home. Tim loves the amount of attention he gets from being an only child but Tim’s perfect world is soon shattered when his parents announce that they’re having another baby and Tim is about to have a baby brother. Every day is an adventure for Tim and along for every single death-defying trip to The Amazon or expedition across the seas are his two loving parents – Ted and Janice (Jimmy Kimmel and Lisa Kudrow). Okay, basic plot: Tim Templeton (Miles Bakshi) is a seven-year-old with a furiously overactive imagination. Luckily The Boss Baby was an entertaining and hilarious backdrop to a first date wrought with anxiety and first date jitters. I wasn’t worried about the film (animated films are generally rather excellent and Dreamworks has a stellar record) I was nervous because watching this movie would be my first date with my crush. I remember being extremely nervous the day I went to watch this film.
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