History YMMV / TheBossBaby

* MoralEventHorizon. Tim, though a good kid, damn near crosses this when he almost catapults Boss Baby out the window. If his parent's didn't stop him, Boss Baby would have likely landed on the road and got run over, and Tim could have realistically been taken down a very dark path.

* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Most people wrote ''The Boss Baby'' off as a joke, and some predicted that it would be crushed by Creator/{{Disney}}'s live-action version of ''[[Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017 Beauty and the Beast]]''. To the surprise of almost everyone, the film barely edged out ''Beast'' to win the top spot of the domestic box office, and has grossed an impressive $406 million worldwide so far.
* CriticalDissonance: The film scored very poorly with early critics, but eventually ended up with nearly a split down the middle, with 49% fresh at Rotten Tomatoes by the Saturday evening after its release. Audiences gave it an A- [=CinemaScore=], while those under 18 gave it an overall A+. The film also toppled ''Film/{{Beauty and The Beast|2017}}'', which had ruled the box office for two weekends.
* HilariousInHindsight: Tim is voiced by Miles Bakshi, the grandson of animator Creator/RalphBakshi, who absolutely loathes [=DreamWorks=].

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Some viewers feel that the film would have been better if it solely focused on Tim's vivid imagination getting in the way of his own life situations rather than Boss Baby himself.
** With that said, consider the ending and how Tim explains it. See AlternativeCharacterInterpretation.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: During the montage of Boss Baby demanding things from his parents at the beginning, we hear a copyright-friendly version of Dance of the Knights. Given the similarities to ''Series/TheApprentice'', it's quite fitting.

** While at first, the movie seems to play it straight on the whole Baby Co. incident and plot, one has to remember that it is a story being told by Tim to his daughter. Remember that he has a vivid imagination. Also, remember that he said in the end that it was how he remembered it.

** Some of Tim's imagine spots get kind of unnerving, like imagining the hall to Boss Baby's room as a hellscape with pictures of the baby morphing into devils, and Boss Baby's "every christmas, every birthday party" speech being accompanied by pictures of his face appearing in all sorts of weird and creepy spots.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Some viewers feel that the film would have been better if it solely focused on Tim's vivid imagination getting in the way of his own life situations rather than the boss baby himself.

* MemeticMutation: CALLING THE BOSS BABY (OMG HE ANSWERED!!!)[[note]]After Boss Baby gave out his phone number, which was an actual phone number owned by [=DreamWorks=], various [=YouTubers=] (notably Durv) have made videos calling the titular Boss Baby and talking to a voice actor playing him. People have since parodied this, notably ''WebOriginal/{{Pyrocynical}}''.[[/note]]

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Tim comes across as unreasonably selfish throughout the first part of the movie, from enjoying the attention his parents give him too much to attempting to throw the newborn baby (who behaves like an adult, but still) out the window.

** The fact that Alec Baldwin voices a blond baby in a suit actually named Boss Baby has sparked a lot of Creator/DonaldTrump jokes.

* ParanoiaFuel: Some of the babies have memory manipulating wands, and those babies are wearing hazmat suits.

* NightmareFuel: Comedy aside, Steve Buscemi sounds genuinely unhinged as Francis E. Francis.

* JerkassWoobie: Francis Francis. Yes, he's trying to destroy Baby Corp, but all this trouble started because the Baby Formula stopped working for him (due to him being lactose intolerant), and he got fired from Baby Corp as a result of getting older, something that was completely out of his control. Keep in mind that he was well-liked by the company before all this happened. Even Tim and Boss Baby sympathize with him.

* JerkassWoobie: Francis Francis. Yes, he's trying to destroy Baby Corp, but all this trouble started because the Baby Formula stopped working for him (due to him being lactose intolerant), and he got fired from Baby Corp as a result of getting older. Keep in mind that he was well-liked by the company before all this happened. Even Tim and Boss Baby sympathize with him.

* NightmareFuel: Comedy aside, Steve Buscemi sounds genuinely unhinged as Francis E Francis.

* MemeticMutation: CALLING THE BOSS BABY (OMG HE ANSWERED!!!)[[note]]Various [=YouTubers=] (notably Durv) have made videos claiming to be calling the titular Boss Baby. They're all fake, of course. People have since parodied this, notably ''WebOriginal/{{Pyrocynical}}''.[[/note]]

* HilariousInHindsight: Tim is voiced by Miles Bakshi, the grandson of animator Creator/RalphBakshi who absolutely loathes [=DreamWorks=].

* HilariousInHindsight: Tim is voiced by Miles Bakshi, the grandson of animator Creator/RalphBakshi who absolutely loaths Dreamworks.

* HilriousInHindsight: Tim is voiced by Miles Bakshi, the grandson of animator Creator/RalphBakshi who absolutely loaths Dreamworks.

* WinBackTheCrowd: Some people considered the concept to be rather ridiculous when the [[TaintedByThePreview trailers first came out]] (though it wasn't enough to be considered a straight-up AudienceAlienatingPremise). When the film was finally released, however, it ended up doing better than expected.