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In 2017’s The Boss Baby, one tough, all-business baby and his older, more playful brother took on a dastardly plot and saved babykind—and families everywhere. And in the sequel, The Boss Baby: Family Business, the now-older duo is forced to go on another mission to save families—especially their own.
The Boss Baby: Family Business catches up with the Templeton brothers after they’ve grown up and grown apart. Ted (voiced by Alec Baldwin) is now a high-powered businessman, while Tim (James Marsden) is a stay-at-home dad to two little girls. One night, Tim discovers that his youngest daughter, Tina (Amy Sedaris), is a Baby Corp baby, sent to investigate the founder of a school that’s planning to do away with parents for good. And, using a special formula, she turns them both back into their younger selves to go undercover at the school.
As Tim and Ted race off to the school to help with Baby Corp’s investigation of founder Dr. Armstrong (Jeff Goldblum), the film turns into a random, spastic free-for-all. In order to complete their mission, Ted must go against his beliefs in hard work and achievement over imagination and creativity, while Tim struggles to connect with overachieving older daughter Tabitha (Ariana Greenblatt). And they’re both forced to get beyond their differences to work together. Add to that a wacky high-speed race through the streets, the antics of highly competitive children, and some seriously creepy kids, and you’ve got a whole lot of craziness along the way.
The Boss Baby sequel certainly isn’t smart, sophisticated kids’ entertainment—no more than its predecessor was. The characters are a mix of lovable and bizarre. And the story seems to go in a whole lot of directions at once. As in the previous film, it seems like there’s a lot of extra fluff. But that also means that it’s never boring. And, in the end, parents will be able to use it to help fuel their battle to get the kids to stop fighting and get along for a change.
If your kids enjoyed the original Boss Baby—and also the animated series on Netflix—this installment is more of the same. It’s a little bit of baby business, a little bit of family drama, and a whole lot of wackiness. It isn’t a future kids’ classic, but it will keep them giggling for a couple of hours.
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