While it never achieves any particular greatness, this sequel did manage to improve upon its predecessor. The story? Meh, kids will probably like it, and adults will hopefully tolerate it. The voice acting? It is actually pretty good. You go for the babies acting like adults, the adults acting like babies, with a fair dose of rude humor thrown in for good measure.
Walking into a theater playing The Boss Baby: Family Business and expecting high art means you are doing it wrong. Instead, the story feels like an unnecessary layer of sentimentality, hardly needed when your core audience is there for diaper jokes. The Machines, which tried and succeeded with that whole father/daughter connection plotline. The subplot, featuring Tim and Tabitha, about a father and daughter reconnecting comes off a little unwieldy, and did not contain the emotional heft that was needed. Edwin Armstrong (Jeff Goldblum) in DreamWorks Animation’s The Boss Baby: Family Business, directed by Tom McGrath. Ted and Tim drink a special formula, provided by Tina, that will turn them back into children for 48 hours so they can investigate the nefarious plans at the school. Edwin Armstrong, the head of the Acorn Center. (from left) Tim Templeton (James Marsden), Tina Templeton (Amy Sedaris) and Ted Templeton (Alec Baldwin) in DreamWorks Animation’s The Boss Baby: Family Business, directed by Tom McGrath. She informs Ted and Tim about Bab圜orp’s plan to uncover the mystery of the Acorn Center for Advanced Childhood, the prestigious school over-achieving Tabitha attends. This time baby Tina is the undercover executive at Bab圜orp. Tim stays at home to care for his children Tina (Amy Sedaris) and Tabitha (Ariana Greenblatt), while Ted stays busy with his business and sends inappropriately lavish gifts to the family for special occasions. The now-adult Templeton brothers have grown apart. That made the upcoming The Boss Baby: Family Business feature film basically inevitable.Īlec Baldwin returns to voice Ted Templeton, with James Marsden now in the role of big brother Tim. In the proceeding years, The Boss Baby spawned a Netflix series, meaning we are firmly in franchise territory.
As for me, I was not the target audience, and the fact I stayed awake was as much I could have hoped for.
I took my nieces to a screening of The Boss Baby back in 2017.
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