The Boss Baby is the 227th episode of Screen Junkies comedy series Honest Trailers. It was written by Spencer Gilbert, Joe Starr and Dan Murrell. It was narrated by Jon Bailey as Epic Voice Guy. It parodies the 2017 American CGI-animated movie The Boss Baby. It was published on January 2, 2018 as part of Screen Junkies' second annual Fan Appreciation Month. The video is 5 minutes 1 second long. It has been viewed over 2.6 million times.
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"Prepare for a film that will fill up the diaper that was once your brain, as you question whether anything onscreen is real or not." ~ Honest Trailers - The Boss Baby
Script[]
You voted for the 2017 movies you wanted us to do an Honest Trailer for, and here's your number five choice.
Shrek made you laugh. How to Train Your Dragon made you feel. Now, DreamWorks' newest franchise will make you question the very fabric of reality!
Baby Ornaments: (singing) I'll be there.
Tim: (gasps)
Boss Baby. No, seriously; it's a weird one.
Meet Boss Baby, his actual given name, who also happens to be a boss, a baby, and a bossy, baby version of Alec Baldwin's bossiest roles.
Baby: (to Jimbo) Cookies... are for closers.
Blake (Glengarry Glen Ross): Coffee's for closers only.
Janice: (after hearing Baby crying) You called?
Ted Sr.: Do you need Señor Squeaky?
Ice Cream Man (Saturday Night Live): (after "Donald Trump" rings a bell) You called for ice cream, sir? Here's two scoops.
But if you think that's all there is to this kids flick, hold onto your powdered butts for a sharp left turn into madness, where the companies who manufacture babies and puppies compete for the limited amount of love in the world...
Baby: This is war. Puppies are winning, and babies are losing.
...Baby Corp employees have adult-level intelligence, but drink laced milk to keep their bodies tiny...
Baby: Without that formula, I turn into a normal baby.
...pacifiers that let you astral-project your soul through physical space...
Baby: (handing a pacifier to Tim) I want you to suck it.
...and a memory-wiping baby task force can make you forget your own children.
Baby Corp Task Force Officer: (waving a magic wand over a sleeping Ted Sr. and Janice) Forget about the baby. Forget about the baby.
So if you think Logan was the darkest action movie that came out in 2017, or that Ragnarok was the craziest, you haven't really listened to anything I just said! (shows Tim and Baby babbling at each other)
Has your child ever asked where babies come from? Get ready to dodge that question with 90 minutes of lies that will take years of therapy to undo...
Baby: --I wasn't born. I was hired.
...where babies start life on a dangerous assembly line, get assigned their sex via pinball machine, and even though it looks like women still get pregnant (zooms in on Janice's baby bump), the baby shows up in a... taxi? But then, what happened to the...? Oh no. This can't be easier to explain than saying Mommy and Daddy want to bone sometimes!
Baby: No wonder kids are so messed up!
There's more than just babies along for the ride, like Tim, who shows you how obnoxious owning children can be...
Ted Sr.: How would you like to have a baby brother?
Tim: No thanks. I'm enough.
...whose imagination borders on clinical insanity...
Wizzie: Perhaps your parents need to be... enlightened. With a great curse!
...and the villain Francis Francis, formerly known as (clears throat)... "Super Colossal Big Fat Boss Baby", who's made a puppy so cute, it will literally steal a mother's love from her kids.
Boy: (after his mother rushes to look at the Forever Puppy) Mommy?
Man, this movie is weird, and we haven't even touched on the part where the 7-year-old gets hammered in Vegas! (shows Tim accidentally drinking a cocktail and spitting it out in disgust)
Prepare for a film that will fill up the diaper that was once your brain, as you question whether anything onscreen is real or not. Because Tim falls asleep at the beginning, so it's all fake. But then the mom is actually pregnant, so it's real. But it's all from Tim's point of view, so it's fake. But the parents acknowledge the baby is wearing a suit, so it must be real.
Janice: He's like a little man.
But the action is shown to be exaggerated, so it's fake. But Tim records the baby actually talking, so that's real! But the parents never hear the tape, so it's fake! But the parents do hear the baby talk, so it's real!
Baby: (to a trapped Janice and Ted Sr.) Yes, the baby's fine.
Janice: Who was that?
But at the end, grown-up Tim says it's just how he remembers it, SO IT'S FAKE! But his daughter is also a Boss Baby, SO IT'S REAL! AAUGH!! STOP IT, MOVIE! I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! YOU'VE BROKEN MEEE!!
So if you're looking to put thoughts in kids' heads that they never would have come up with on their own...
Tim: You can't be fired from your own family. (transitions to Tim lying awake in bed) ...Can you?
...enjoy this acid trap that leaves you with more questions than answers; but if you ever get overwhelmed, sit back and enjoy the office talk...
Tim: You're not gonna write a memo, are you?
Baby: A memo... can change the world.
Tim's Letter: "...but now I know that memos are very important things."
...the one Beatles song they paid for...
Janice: (singing) Blackbird...
Tim: (singing) ...singing in the...
Baby: (singing) ...dead of night...
Tim: (singing) Take these broken wings...
Janice and Ted Sr.: (singing) ...and learn to...
Wizzie: --fly!
...and violence. (montage of slapstick violence) Lots and lots of violence. (another montage of slapstick violence) Hey, stop it! This is literally child abuse! (shows Jimbo throwing Baby through a window)
Starring: Alec Bawlin' (Alec Baldwin as Theodore Lindsay "Ted" Templeton Jr./The Boss Baby); Tobey Macrier (Miles Bakshi as Timothy Leslie "Tim" Templeton and Tobey Maguire as Adult Tim); Off-Brandalf (James McGrath as Wizzie); Steve Buscemi-y (Steve Buscemi as Francis E. Francis/Super Colossal Big Fat Boss Baby); I'm Scary Poppins, Y'all (Conrad Vernon as Eugene Francis); and The Kamino Cloning Facilities (shows the Baby Corp conveyor belts).
Glenbaby Glen Boss
Honest title for The Boss Baby - Glenbaby Glen Boss. Titles designed by Robert Holtby.
Baby: This, Templeton, is first class.
Tim: Why is it empty?
Baby: No one can afford it.
That... That is more socio-economic commentary than I expect from my talking baby films.
Trivia[]
Honest Trailer Commentaries - The Boss Baby
- This Honest Trailer was written just before Screen Junkies went on their end-of-year holiday in 2017. The episode was published in January 2018 as part of their second Fan Appreciation Month.
- The writers found this movie incredibly weird, bizarre and existentially confusing.
- Screen Junkies have produced Honest Trailers for several other computer animated movies including How to Train Your Dragon, Despicable Me 1 & 2, The Emoji Movie, The Secret Life of Pets, Toy Story, Inside Out, Finding Nemo, Finding Dory, Cars & Cars 2, The Incredibles, Shrek, Frozen, Moana, Wreck-It Ralph, Big Hero 6 and Zootopia. See list of Honest Trailers for more.
Watch the full Honest Trailer Commentary on YouTube
Reception[]
Honest Trailers - The Boss Baby has a 97.9% approval rating from YouTube viewers. Bleeding Cool said they had previously dismissed The Boss Baby as not worth seeing until they saw this Honest Trailer which reveals the true weirdness of the movie. Bleeding Cool even wrote "DreamWorks might’ve been better off letting Screen Junkies do the regular trailer for the film, because their version sounds like a mind-blowing experience." Syfy Wire appreciated the Honest Trailer for seeming "to have driven the esteemed narrator to an existential crisis regarding existence itself," and asked "If the narrator was scarred, what have we done to our children?" SlashFilm summarized Screen Junkies' take on the film as "90 minutes of lies that will take years of therapy to undo."
Production credits[]
Video thumbnail for Honest Trailers - The Boss Baby
Voiceover Narration by Jon Bailey
Title design by Robert Holtby
Producers - Dan Murrell, Spencer Gilbert, Joe Starr, Max Dionne
Written by Spencer Gilbert, Joe Starr, Dan Murrell
Edited by Kevin Williamsen and TJ Nordaker
External links []
- The Boss Baby Gets a Mind-Blowing Honest Trailer - Bleeding Cool article
- THIS HONEST TRAILER FOR THE BOSS BABY CONTAINS A DIRE WARNING - Syfy Wire article
- ‘Boss Baby’ Honest Trailer: 90 Minutes of Lies That Will Take Years of Therapy to Undo - SlashFilm article