What’s It About
Tim (James Marsden) and his Boss Baby little bro Ted (Alec Baldwin) – have become adults and drifted away from each other. Tim is now a married dad. Ted is a hedge fund CEO. But a new boss baby with a cutting-edge approach and a can-do attitude is about to bring them together again … and inspire a new family business. Tim and his super-mom wife Carol (Eva Longoria) live in the suburbs with their super-smart 7-year-old daughter Tabitha (Ariana Greenblatt), and super-cute new infant Tina (Amy Sedaris). Tabitha, who’s at the top of her class at the prestigious Acorn Center for Advanced Childhood, idolizes her Uncle Ted and wants to become like him, but Tim worries that she’s working too hard and is missing out on a normal childhood. When baby Tina reveals that she’s—ta-da!—a top-secret agent for BabyCorp on a mission to uncover the dark secrets behind Tabitha’s school and its mysterious founder, Dr. Erwin Armstrong (Jeff Goldblum), it will reunite the Templeton brothers in unexpected ways, leading them to re-evaluate the meaning of family and discover what truly matters.
MOVIESinMO REVIEW
The first Boss Baby movie was in 2017, and since then, they’ve created Netflix series and an interactive short. Nothing has changed as far as the overall moral of the story is concerned, so why make a new movie? I guess it’s the only way the writers could up the Templeton brother’s age to add all the extra stuff needed to make a movie with enough changes to justify a reason for consumers to go to the theaters. (Whew, that’s a lot). In The Boss Baby: Family Business, the story is the same – Something or someone is affecting the love levels of babies, and it’s up to Tim and Ted Templeton to fix it. I’m still unsure why those two are the only ones out of millions of babies qualified to save the corporation. Anyway, forty years after the first film, Tim’s baby daughter, Tina, can talk and runs the BabyCorp company. Then it happens, a threat so large, the Templeton brothers are transformed into a young Tim, and the original Boss Baby, Ted, to infiltrate and fix an issue apparently no other baby in the world can accomplish. The jokes and antics are the same although, most of them are over the top, even by Boss Baby standards. The teachable stuff is the same, be nice, listen to your parents, and family is everything. The Boss Baby 2 stays true to the franchise by keeping it fun for kids and throwing in adults-only jokes mixed with double entendres for the parents “forced” to watch it with the kids. It’s not a bad movie, but it may be too kid-ish for most adults.
OUR RATING – A BIT TOO JUVENILE 6
MEDIA
- Genre – Comedy
- Street date
- Digital – April 31st, 2021
- DVD/Blu-Ray September 14th, 2021
- Video – 1080p
- Screen size – 2.39:1
- Sound – English: Dolby Atmos, French (Canadian): Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitles – English SDH, Spanish, French
Extras
- Precious Templeton: A Pony Tale
- Deleted Scene with Intro by Director Tom McGrath
- Never Grow Up: The Big Babies Behind The Boss Baby: Family Business
- Roll Call Creative Experiment Lab
- Boss Baby Art Class: How to Draw
- “Together We Stand” Lyric Video