Line #1 YMMV/TheBossBaby


1	* AccidentalInnuendo:
2	** The scene where Tim and Boss Baby suck on the pacifiers to head to Baby Corp. The less said here, the better.
3	** In Boss Baby: Get that Baby!, there's a scene where Wendy lists a "Sucky thing" (the teleportation dummy) as something important.
4	* AdaptationDisplacement: Granted, the film [[InNameOnly isn't much of an adaptation]], but nonetheless, many people seeing, or even hearing of the film never realized that there was a picture book before there was a movie.
5	* {{Adorkable}}: Tim is wildly imaginative, cheerful and energetic, speaks to his alarm clock as if it was an actual person, and refuses to ride his bicycle without the proper safety gear, or for that matter, cross the street against a red light, even when the babysitter (who's really a henchman for the BigBad) chases after him.
6	* AlternateCharacterInterpretation:
7	** Eugene is the older brother of Francis Francis, the film's BigBad. [[spoiler: However, at the end, when Francis Francis has turned into a baby, Eugene picks him up and starts feeding him. He declares he will raise him right this time. It seems that he went along with Francis's plan as a way to look out for him.]]
8	** Did the film's whole story even actually ''happen''? 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.
9	** The babies in charge of [[spoiler:erasing Mr. and Mrs. Templeton's memories of Boss Baby and removing any traces of his presence in their house allow Tim to keep his memories. They did it either because they think he won't be taken seriously or because he earned Baby Corp's trust by helping Boss Baby.]]
10	** At the very end, [[spoiler: when Boss Baby decides to rejoin Tim's family, he goes into the control room and tinkers with the main keyboard, causing the pie chart on the screen to display the love granted to ''everything'' as 999%, before he leaves. While some entries on Website/ThisVeryWiki say he actually managed to give them all that much love, it's also possible that he just made the display malfunction as his way of saying TakeThisJobAndShoveIt.]]
11	* 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/{{Beauty and the Beast\|2017}}''. 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 about $528 million worldwide. It has also spun off an animated series on Netflix that has done quite well and a sequel for the film itself came out in 2021.
12	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Missi Hale's cover of "What the World Needs Now Is Love" for the closing credits.
13	* 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.
14	* FandomRivalry: With ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' fans, who feel that their [[WesternAnimation/CaptainUnderPantsTheFirstEpicMovie movie]] (which had gotten a better critical reception and was produced by the [[Creator/DreamWorksAnimation same studio]]) should have been a nominee for Best Animated Film at both the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards instead of this.
15	** Also with both fans of ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOBatmanMovie'' (which also failed to get a a Best Animated Feature nomination from ''The Annies'' unlike Boss Baby) and ''Manga/ASilentVoice'' for the reasons already stated above.
16	* HilariousInHindsight:
17	** Animator Creator/RalphBakshi has an open hatred of [=DreamWorks=], so it's amusing to know that his own grandson, Miles, is the voice of Tim. In addition to the fact that the film was directed by Tom [=McGrath=], who is a friend of Bakshi. [[spoiler:And in the last scene of the movie, Tim's elder daughter is voiced by Bakshi's granddaughter (and Miles' sister), Nina Zoe Bakshi.]]
18	** The fact that Alec Baldwin voices a blond baby in a suit actually named Boss Baby has sparked a lot of Creator/DonaldTrump jokes, especially in light of Baldwin frequently playing Trump on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''.
19	* JerkassWoobie: [[spoiler: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.]]
20	* MemeticMutation:
21	** 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 WebVideo/{{Pyrocynical}}.[[/note]]
22	** "Guy who has only seen The Boss Baby, watching his second movie: Getting a lot of 'Boss Baby' vibes from this..." [[labelnote:Explanation]]A tweet going around in screenshots that has gained popularity for coining "The Boss Baby problem" in media analysis circles. It's become a joke about myopia, and proposes the sincere question if a parallel is objectively there or is only a false connection made from small reference pools.[[/labelnote]]
23	* {{Moe}}:
24	** Despite having [[VocalDissonance Alec Baldwin's voice]], Boss Baby is still an adorable kid. There's also a group of three babies, each dressed up in full-body animal outfits complete with furry ears. See [[http://media0.giphy.com/media/l0Hee6sB3fXbAdhRK/giphy.gif here]]. And let's not forget the baby girl wearing a pink tutu.
25	** Timothy is an adorable little boy with a big imagination and all the usual traits typically associated with a seven-year-old.
26	* MoralEventHorizon: Francis Francis crosses this when he threatens to terminate Tim's parents if he interfered with his plans.
27	* NightmareFuel:
28	** Comedy aside, Creator/SteveBuscemi sounds genuinely unhinged as Francis E. Francis.
29	** 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. And within this, the synchronized sung "''I'll be there''" when the Christmas tree ornaments become his head.
30	** While not intentional on the filmmakers' part, [[spoiler:the cleanup babies that hypnotically wipe the parents' memories of Boss Baby]] come across as this.
31	** Tim almost catapulting the Boss Baby out the window.
32	* ParanoiaFuel: [[spoiler:Some of the babies have memory manipulating wands, and those babies are wearing hazmat suits.]]
33	* StrawmanHasAPoint: Tim's parents grounding him for "three evers" may seem harsh, but keep in mind that he almost catapulted Boss Baby out the window, where there's a very good chance he would have landed on the road and got run over, just like the tape.
34	* SuspiciouslySimilarSong:
35	** 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.
36	** The novelization does this with "Blackbird", replacing it with something rather generic, as they either couldn't get the rights to print lyrics or hadn't yet finalized the song for the film before the novel was written. As such, the Boss Baby's joke about Tim's parents being Lennon and [=McCartney=] is naturally dropped as well.
37	* TaintedByThePreview: Some people considered the concept to be rather ridiculous when the trailers first came out. When the film was finally released, however, it ended up doing better than expected ([[CriticalDissonance at least with audiences]]).
38	* 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.
39	* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: More divisive than outright bad, but Creator/AlecBaldwin gives the exact same performance in this as he does as Jack Donaghy and seems committed to portraying the character as a snazzy businessman as much as possible.
40	* 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.
41	* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The animation itself is very expressive and fluid, similar to the original Looney Tunes. Especially with Tim's Imagination spots, which exploded with colour and are gorgeous to look at.

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