Grab your briefcases: the boss baby is back in ‘The Boss Baby: Family Business’, directed by Tom McGrath, another baby adventure that takes up the same notes as the original and doesn’t have much to do with it. to show.
The former boss baby, Ted (Alec Baldwin), is now a wealthy businessman in a big boy’s suit. Her brother, Tim (James Marsden), has a family of his own, although he worries about his daughter Tabitha (Ariana Greenblatt), a Type A who prefers handshakes to hugs. Tim is recruited for a mission by his youngest daughter, Tina (Amy Sedaris), another baby boss. With the help of a new magic formula, Ted and Tim become younger themselves again and go undercover at a school for gifted children that has a bad secret.
At one point, Tim asks Tabitha if she wants to hear the story about how he and baby Ted saved the world again, but she walks by. “It was a good story, wasn’t it?” Tim tries, but she says, “Well, that didn’t really make sense. “” Jokes were good, right? Tim asks. Tabitha makes an evasive noise.
At least is the film self-aware? Apart from that, the imaginative yet absurd narrative threads leave a minefield of plot holes in their wake. There are good laughs throughout, although none feel particularly new. And the continued attempts to turn the corporate culture into something cute and funny by adding a pacifier seem out of touch with the harshness with which we criticize toxic workplaces now.
A baby in a suit? Still cute. Recycled gags? Not so much – this “Boss Baby” just didn’t get the memo.
The Boss Baby: family business
Classified PG. Duration: 1h45. In the movies and on Peacock.
