The Boss Baby Christian Movie Review (2017)

Guidance: Talk Together

This fast, comic family film leans on sibling rivalry, exaggerated deception, potty humor, and cartoon-style peril. Its biggest discussion point for Christian families is not harsh content so much as the film’s self-focused view of love, success, and family loyalty before it moves toward warmer reconciliation.

Why This Guidance Level

The main concerns here are common to broad family animation: frantic comic danger, frequent lying and manipulation, and a story built around jealousy between brothers. Nothing stands out as especially graphic or spiritually heavy, but the film gives parents several worthwhile openings to talk about selfish ambition, truthfulness, and what love in a family should look like.

Faith & Worldview Perspective

The film values family connection, sacrifice, and learning to love a sibling, which reflects real truths about belonging and care. At the same time, much of the story runs on rivalry, image, and using people to get what you want. Christian parents may want to discuss how love is more than attention or achievement, and how Jesus Christ calls us to humility, honesty, and self-giving love rather than competition for the spotlight.

Truths Reflected

• Family members can grow in love and learn to put one another first.
• Jealousy and selfishness damage relationships, while sacrifice helps restore them.

Tensions to Discuss

• The story often treats deception and manipulation as clever tools before showing their cost; a Christian parent may want to discuss why truthfulness matters.
• The film can frame worth around performance, status, and being chosen, which conflicts with identity rooted in God’s love rather than success.

Content & Discernment Markers

Occult & Spiritual Content

• Occult material does not stand out here. The fantasy premise of a talking, suit-wearing baby is played as absurd comedy rather than spiritual teaching. Parents may simply want to remind children that the film’s world is make-believe.

Sexuality & Relationships

• Sexual content is very light. The story centers on family relationships, especially the bond and conflict between brothers, with only occasional grown-up jokes likely to pass over younger viewers.

Identity Themes

• A major thread is Tim feeling displaced when the new baby seems to take his parents’ love and attention. The film treats identity as something threatened by comparison and restored through belonging. Parents may want to discuss how our value does not shrink when someone else is loved too.

Violence & Intensity

• The movie includes repeated cartoon-style peril: chase scenes, sneaking missions, slapstick fights, falls, and exaggerated threats tied to the baby’s secret mission. The tone stays comic rather than graphic, but the action is frequent enough that sensitive younger children may notice the intensity.

Language & Humour

• Language is mostly mild and comedic, with teasing, insults, and bossy put-downs rather than strong profanity. Humor also includes baby-related gross-out material such as diapers, bodily functions, and messy gags that some families may find silly and others may find tiresome.

Other Content Notes

• Much of the plot depends on lying, spying, and manipulating others for personal goals. These actions are often played for laughs before the story moves toward reconciliation. Parents may want to discuss why ends do not justify sinful means.
• Sibling jealousy drives the emotional conflict, with Tim seeing the baby as a rival for affection and importance. That makes this a useful conversation starter about envy, gratitude, and loving a brother or sister well.

Notable Moments

• Sibling jealousy: Tim’s sense that the new baby has stolen his parents’ affection shapes the story’s emotional tension and fuels much of his resentment.
• Comic mission deception: The baby’s secret-agent style mission involves manipulation, secrecy, and using others as part of a larger plan.
• Cartoon chase peril: Several sequences use fast-paced pursuit, slapstick danger, and exaggerated threats for laughs and excitement.

Discussion Prompts

• Jealousy and sibling love: Why did Tim feel threatened by the baby, and what could he have done differently with those feelings?
  • Biblical guidance: Scripture warns against jealousy and calls us to love one another sincerely.
  • Scripture: James 3:16, Romans 12:10
• Truthfulness and manipulation: When characters lied or used people to get what they wanted, did it really help in the end?
  • Biblical guidance: God calls His people to speak truth and reject deceit, even when lying seems useful.
  • Scripture: Ephesians 4:25, Proverbs 12:22
• What makes someone valuable: Did the movie ever make it seem like being important or successful matters more than being loved? What does God say gives us worth?
  • Biblical guidance: Our identity is not earned by performance; it is grounded in being made by God and loved by Him.
  • Scripture: Genesis 1:27, 1 John 3:1
• Family sacrifice and love: What moments showed real love through sacrifice instead of selfishness?
  • Biblical guidance: Christian love is shown by giving of ourselves for others, following the example of Christ.
  • Scripture: Philippians 2:3-4, John 13:34