The Reel Rejects - THE BOSS BABY (2017) IS BONKERS!! MOVIE REVIEW!! First Time Watching!!

Episode Date: January 27, 2025

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credits, we just want to let you guys know that if you're listening to this on Apple or Spotify, you want to give us five stars. Right. We just watched the boss baby. We did. We got the memo, finally. We got the freaking memo.

Oh, feeling, feeling bossed, feeling like a big old baby. Feeling pampered. Don't pampered. I feel like I had a good time. I know, and I understand the hype of the boss baby. I don't know if there is hype. The boss baby hype. This was not made for an Oscar, I'm pretty sure.

So despite everyone being vaguely perturbed by that, yeah, I, yeah. I think it does come with some level of hype. I mean, I can kind of get it. You know, the animation was very innovative and it was very inspired. I don't know. I think the way that they're able to capture the colorful, expansive nature of what it's like to be a young child was very impressive. I think they did a great job with that. And the themes of feeling like you're going to be left behind in the wake of having a little brother.

And then how that theme kind of permeated through the boss of being himself and also the villain. But that was all very cool. and very poignant because it is a kind of a scary weird experience. It's like the lack of or it's the resistance to embracing change is ultimately what the story is about. And then finally the arc of coming to embrace change and it could be a good thing just because something's different doesn't mean it's bad.

Yeah. All beautiful stuff. Johnny Boy, how do you feel about the boss baby? Do you feel bossed? How do you feel with this funky freaking music? I'm going to say, for those of you listening, the credits are still rolling. and we got a vapor wave

like wallpaper version of the like mobile gears that are outside the boss baby window and now we've just transitioned into like heavy wah-wah funky like you know getting shit done music driving around town music

yeah this was an interesting experience because certainly I feel like I came in with the knowledge that you know this is a prominent animated movie that's come out in recent years but that it's definitely one I've heard people use as like the butt of jokes or punchlines or just kind of like an eye roll.

A lot of butt. A lot of butt in this movie. Yeah, I didn't know quite exactly what to expect and I had a couple of different experiences watching this. I think they were both fun. I feel like this movie kind of did two things. It did the sort of like, oh, this is a metaphor for when, yeah, as a kid,

You know, you have a new sibling introduced into your life somehow and, you know, the way in which that disrupts your whole order of things and the lessons that it has to confront you with about, yeah, time and affection and, you know, just what it means to make space collectively for another person in your life when you, especially as a young child, don't necessarily like understand all of the things that go into that. though that was a lovely thread I wasn't expecting. And then on the opposite side, you have, you know, the sort of fun, madcap, whimsical adventure. And in a way, it combines two modes of especially like, you know, family slash youth accessible animation that I like, which is, you know, it has a bit of that. Not to say that Pixar is the only one does it. Not to say that DreamWorks hasn't also done it. Oh, they got a Jacob Collier feature on here, A. yeah he's out here he's out here inspiring music and being quirky um yeah then on the other side

you have the kind of madcap high concept you know big adventure kind of thing and uh i do feel a little bit like one kind of gives way to the other after a while it's like about the time i was really touching on the whole like oh wow this is a fun little metaphor and it's like you know uh nicely locked into that. Once you kind of have that, or once I kind of had that conscious realization and can kind of see that like, oh yeah, by the end of this, they'll learn

to love each other and probably find some way to end up actual real brothers, finally. I didn't carry on as much of that sort of, that rumination is not quite the right word, but it didn't have as much of that when the story kicked into the sort of like immediate action

oriented stakes of like, I'm turning it back into a baby and we got to go stop the puppy and uh you know mom and dad are getting kidnapped and you know it does become sort of like a madcap crazy adventure after a while and i also enjoyed that too um and and you know that was more of what i guess was expecting was sort of like the again more a cartoon less like uh what am i trying to say it's like you know yeah that there's a little bit of that pixarishness of like oh yeah this is kind of affecting and it's something that adults and kids can each identify with in their own different ways. And even though it's not really about the parents, like the parents also have kind of

an interesting and prominent little journey. And yeah, like, you know, I'm not even really complaining that it doesn't fully maintain that stuff as richly all the way through, which is just interesting. And yeah, I mean, ultimately, it balances out to something I thought was very fun. It was like better than I expected, not necessarily like incredible, but like very tight, you know very appealing uh nice animation throughout i really like their use of like yeah just that frame of mind you're in as a child and you're sort of comprising fantasies out of the books you've read and things like that and being that this comes from a book i really like that they uh you know

used those kinds of illustrations in backdrops or they did the whole like pop-up book thing uh there was a lot in there that i thought was like nice and two you had various images that were reminding me of or Easter eggs placed in the frame that seemed to be nodding to other animated movies by other studios which is kind of neat it's kind of neat when you wake up little halflings it's time to leave go and live your peasant's lives soon be gone with you oh be gone it said 845 is this movie like an hour and 45 minutes is this like because he keeps waking him up at seven so I'm like is that kind of like a passage of time that's that's pretty funny yeah yeah yeah it's weird in ways it had more than i was expecting

in ways it was about what i was expecting uh a little perturbed by just how again like fluid and snakey they made his hip gyrations and uh you know a lot of butt close-ups but whatever kids kids are about that but life butts are funny don't die uh but yeah this is definitely uh yeah got more pulled into this than I was maybe expecting. Yeah, it was fun, you know, and I feel as though just on a basic level of what the concept of the movie is about. It made me kind of remember when I was like a little kid, you know, and I remember when my sister was born or my first sister was born and that concept of, oh, I'm not going to be the only child anymore. And but this taking that concept to an extreme, because he was like seven and a half, I was about seven and a half, eight

when my sister was born so I definitely resonated with the movie on that level and yeah just the level of imagination and how that was visually represented in this movie was very cool

and it harkens back to a time kind of closer to maybe our childhoods because I feel like kids these days are very much like the iPad generation so maybe there isn't as much of that overt imagination because a lot of it's like

kind of fed to you through screens but that's a whole other conversation and to your point during the movie like I think they they had us wondering what era we're in and I think that was probably partly intentional because it's like there's it's really hard to pinpoint apart from like the airport technology and a couple of the things it's kind of hard to pinpoint where in time you are and I feel like yeah that that contributes to the kids and toys and imagination vibe rather than the I'm on the iPad vibe also sorry guys I'm like long story short my glasses are like broken so after like go i got these like little things to cover the the spikey

ends because it's going to stab me if i don't have these on so that's what i'm fiddling with suffer for your vision i'm suffering for my vision literally creatively and both so i can drive home after this but yeah i think this the whole movie was a very interesting inspired kind of fantastical version of this common experience that a lot of kids go through when they realize that they're not going to be an only child anymore. Sure. But it is funny because

I felt like the first part of it was like oh, this is just clearly like the heightened realization or the heightened imagination of a child and granted most of it was that. Yeah. But then like oh the parents can't actually hear the talking baby so I'm like okay maybe there's some sense of someone's like real. I thought this I thought a lot

it was going to be just like a metaphor for what it's like to embrace change. But then I was like like okay what's the line between what's real and what's not real because then you see like the parents perspective of like oh they're actually going slow but it feels super fast for a kid so that that wasn't very clear for me and like okay they literally went to Vegas on a plane so that's that's a thing is like I think there is a point kind of tied into the whole yeah when you're in the first part of the movie you're like oh fun metaphor like yeah and and fun conflict born of that metaphor and they've established this charming world

this charming sort of baby core concept. And then once you, yeah, get past a certain point, it presents you with things where it's like it's not that important to iron out the rules of the universe as a viewer in a fantasy family movie like this. But it does start to confront you with, hang on a minute, what are the rules? Where is the fantasy? I thought I had an idea of that when it was more vague.

And it was mostly from, yeah, that perspective of like, a kid coping with a new sibling, but now that it is also a full-on fantasy where this is a real place and we can like trip out and hologram ourselves to the baby realm and like they've got this whole vendetta against the puppy market. Like once you get into that and even like making a whole thing out of the tape, him like recording the voice, I thought was kind of a neat little intermediary. But yeah, once it gets past a certain point, you do start to like in the back of your mind go, wait what how does this work again and it might actually have like a fine explanation but yeah

it at least catches you up in the moment like huh yeah no exactly it it's a fun one i it's a it's a fun interesting concept and you know what won all the oscars kudos to you guys sure a lot a lot of beautiful animation on display a lot of great voice acting on display yeah yeah yeah did you pull up i'm i'm so blind it's okay i think it's i mdb it's i mdb it's i mdb it's i mdb for sure what else is tim mcgrath made and and two i like i do uh i i i think now like i could imagine people's criticism being oh it's okay this is the madagascar director and various other things um yeah uh and it's some ren and stumpy huh reject nation how are you feeling i've been thinking a lot about feelings lately maybe because

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Run your game, Reject Nation. The whole babies versus dogs thing, I feel like I could imagine some people being like, oh, this is so, like, silly in the wrong way. But I did appreciate, again, like, there are ways. in which I thought maybe some of the aspects of the movie as an adult viewer could have like coalesced a little better. However, I was also charmed by like the whimsy and this the clear cheekiness of how they were drawing the world

and the and the absurdity of the idea of like puppies are too cute you know, so while I could imagine a certain type of viewer being sort of like taken aback that you have the prospect of this rich thread of like, again, the themes of family and you know inviting someone else into your family when counterbalanced against something so like wacky and silly I can imagine some people not being about that but I was charmed in each aspect

even if you know there are ways in which the complete whole could have synthesized them maybe slightly better but I don't know I mean yeah as a feat of just like you know animation this was really fun and tight you know And I got a hat off to, you know, the animators and the directors and stuff like that. The color is very vibrant and everything. If anybody's still watching, fill us in on the DreamWorks face.

And we can read a little bit of the trivia. Trivial. So about it, seven minutes into the film, when Tim watches Boss Baby exit the car, Tim is wearing a shirt with the digits 01 imprinted. However, when he gets down the stairs, the digits changed the zero two. This indicates his being relegated to second. second place by boss baby that's cool this did have a lot of little details in frame for sure that i feel like uh would be interesting to kind of go back and observe i and i appreciate them for putting

those in young timothy miles bachshy has a gandalf themed alarm clock bachshy's grandfather ralph back she directed the original lord of the rings animated movie in 1978 that is crazy wouldn't have thought of that alec baldman's line cookies are for closers is a spoof of his Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross, line. Coffee is for closers. That's a movie that is like massively, you know, notable. And yet I have not seen yet. I haven't even heard of it before.

There was a very funny online sketch, though, one of those like fake trailers where people take a movie and they recut it to be a different kind of movie. And so they made one out of Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross. But instead of like, you know, cut through lawyers, they recut it to look like Alec Baldwin, is this guy who comes to teach these dudes who all

just can't help but swear all the time how to speak normally. It's the man who would teach them how to speak and like they re-contextualize a lot of the imagery in a very fun way. I love that you've seen that but not the movie and so. Yeah. And like I have enough context for what it is to be like I get it. It's funny. But yes at some point I'd like to actually behold

the source material. When Tim jumps up to his home's second story during the early chasing the sound effect is from the $6 million man. That's fun and interesting. The trailer was released the first trailer on National Bosses Day. That's a fun thing.

Let's see what the spoiler facts are. Near the beginning when the toy steam train is being activated, different toys foreshadowed the plot. First, there's a taxi in which the baby is delivered, then a police car and fire engine in which the babies chase him, then a barn referring to the family

going to puppy co which also looked like the red barn uh you know pet supply uh then a game of mouse trap in which tim and boss baby gets sent to francis then an airplane in which tim parents fly then a pirate ship referring to tim and the boss baby imagine the plane is a pirate ship then the habit trail uh in which tim climbs to get his parents then a rocket which is where the forever puppies are being launched absolutely that's fun it's a nice little thingy uh in the the scene where Tim discovers the boss baby on the phone talking uh on the phone to baby core a light bright toy can be seen in the background to pick day grab with babies going down puppies going up a hint of the baby's mission i noticed that in the background later on and i don't

think there there's more stuff happening and i didn't really call it out but like yeah nice use of light right yeah uh they never use boss baby's name until he comes back to the family i noticed that too yeah i was i started to realize partway through was like did i miss it no uh when eugene is dressed up as a nanny type woman to take care of the boys he resembles mary poppins then francis francis says uh that she's practically perfect in every way which is how the titular character of mary poppins is described in her movie look at that at the end of the movie when it cuts to tim telling his daughter of the story she is holding lamb lamb but with a bow on its right ear that's fun um oh here we go the tag on the puppy coat limo, say March, 1978. The tag on the Templeton station wagon is the same color. No cell phones, dial TVs, tipped cassette recorder, parents cameras, airplanes, everyone is dressed up at the airport, cars, the Atari 2,600, the high chair, baby crib, and many more

items suggest the movie is set in the late 70s, probably 78. That was a good pickup on your part. I was curious. Thank you for answering. And it was like kind of subtle to where you could feel like it's kind of removed from time, but also like, yeah, I was looking around like I guess but that's good. You got a good perceptive eye. The scene where Tim and

Boss Baby attempt to steal and replace the file from Puppy Co is a parody of the famous opening scene from Braves the Lost Ark. I said, I sent Temple of Doom, my bad raised the loss. You were in the Indiana Jones neighborhood. You're fine. Just don't tell Andrew. The trap used to catch Tim and the baby is an oversight

slightly cruder version of the 60s game. MousTrap 60s game all the way down to the cage that ensnars them. That was fun. We had mouse trap as kids, but I don't think I ever properly learned how to really play. You'd look cool on the box and you would try and set it up and I never really learned the rules.

The pet Timothy's second daughter is in at the end of the movies. This is her birthday is March 21st, 2017, the same day the movie was released. This indicates that the main action of the movie is not based in present day. Further evidence that the movie is not set in present day is the airplane that Timothy's parents take, which appears to be a DC

10 that is no longer used for passenger travels. I was like, yeah. See what the, if I knew airplane technology better i might have uh yeah absolutely uh the boss uh the tim's full name is timothy lesley templeton the boss baby's full name is theodore lindsay templeton i like a family who names on a template you know what i mean i like the t lt of their names this is just a i feel like someone's going off road with this fact when boss baby and timothy visit baby Corbos Baby lands in the style

associated with Iron Man, another successful business leader with a secret life. Sure. Which I'm sure was the reference and not just the general superhero landing posture, as you pointed out. How dare and I get it. So sagely. Yeah. Don't tell Andrew.

In the first scene of the movie, it's always on the ground for shadow at the start of the movie. There's already a version of this. It's already a version of this fact. He did it already. Bet the facts. Who's got to pay? uh kevin space he was going to voice francis francis i like what's his middle name uh and was replaced with steve bus shemmy and i wonder the special song is blackbird by the beetles only the

first stanza is sung i wonder if that is uh like a legal thing where they're like we will have to pay more we're already using this like a bunch of times uh yeah anyway oh don't read that fact with the it's what the says is ventura all right we won't that's we'll stop there We'll stop there, Ace Ventura. All right, gang. We did it. We did it. Did this make you feel any better?

Yeah, man. It was a nice little escape. It was nostalgic. It was fun. I had fun watching it with you. Had fun watching it with you guys. I got swept up. I got swept up.

I felt the whimsy. I laughed a lot. I enjoyed a lot. And yeah, you know, regardless of where this movie rests in the pantheon of great cinema, I was transported and I got a little joyous catharsis. So I think that's a nice thing.

That's a nice thing. Amen. Well, guys, we want to continue to get swept up away with you guys. But this is going to be a for us today. So you can get swept up with us in the next one. So until next time,

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I wanted to know if it would extend Lex's names. We could find out if it's like... Alexander. You know what's funny? Lex? Or Alexandra? Or Alexandra? Based off their email...

I can't say their email. It sounds like a feminine, likely email, I will say. You know? And I don't want to offend by assuming... And making an ass out of us. But you're definitely a woman. Lex we were just talking in the last shot about

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Yeah it's a great name right We're talking about nicknames and short names Gregory Greg And John doesn't have that because his names are only four letters um the lex is a remarkably short nickname yeah for like Alexander because he's like there's Alexander then Alex then Alex Alex Alex yeah unless the name is just Lexus or Lex is Lex always short though for something I mean I feel like it's one of those questions where you're like when you when someone's named a nickname and their birth certificate that's just the

name it's like clearly Lex must have been derived from an Alex Alexander variation, because I guess that would be the historical... Or Lexus, there you go, yeah. It is not always used exclusively as that. So we could just be dealing with a regular old Lex. You could be someone named Jack, because, like, Jack is like a John nickname, but, like, you know, some people are just Jack, you know? And Lex, maybe you're just Lex, you know.

Some people are named literally... And that is A-O-K. Some people are named to you. C-J, like C-E-E-J-A-Y. Like, this is, we've made a nickname for two names, one name with no antecedent. Which is awesome, which is great. Doesn't matter, Lex. I just happy to keep talking about you.

Yeah. Peace be with you.