Made by the famous Dreamworks studios in 2017, the animated feature “Baby Boss” is one of the most viewed films by French Netflix users this week.
This week, on Netflix, the animated film Baby Boss signed by the prestigious Dreamworks studios arrives in seventh position of the most viewed feature films on the platform by French subscribers (the first position goes to Tenet by Christopher Nolan).
Signed in 2017 by director Tom McGrath, a big name in Dreamworks studios to whom we also owe the super-villain Megamind, but also and above all the hilarious Madagascar trilogy, Baby Boss is the adaptation of a children’s book of the same name signed by author Marla Frazee.
An original work which the director was able to seize to make it a project more linked to his own experience, and centered on the fraternal relationship: “I was able to make it something very personal. (…) I was the youngest, I was the Baby Boss.”
The film follows the adventures of 7-year-old Tim, the sole center of his parents’ attention…until the day they bring home a baby. In addition to monopolizing now all the time his father and mother used to devote to him, Tim’s little brother is one of the strangest newborns. In fact, when the whole family has their backs turned, he dresses in a suit, takes a briefcase and talks on the telephone in a fifty-year-old voice.
It is actually a spy commissioned by the company Baby Corp and charged with a mission of the utmost importance: to ensure that small dogs do not replace babies in the hearts of adults!
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Visually inspired by a very “cartoon” style, and in particular by legendary artists of the genre such as Chuck Jones, Tex Avery or Bob Clampett, Baby Boss is one of the best-received Dreamworks studio films in France. When it was released in 2017, Tom McGrath’s film thus gathered nearly 4 million spectators in French cinemas, making it the studio’s 6th biggest success out of a total of 44 films (worldwide, it only comes in 12th position).
Following the very good performance of Baby Boss at the box office, various sequels were quickly launched: a second feature film entitled Baby Boss 2: A Family Affair, which is not yet available on Netflix, and two animated series (Baby Boss: Business is back and Baby Boss: Back to the cradle) which you can however find on the platform, as well as a Christmas medium-length film.
(Re)discover the trailer for “Baby Boss 2″…