Set three decades after the original, where former titular boss baby Ted (voiced by Alec Baldwin, effortlessly making some of the more sardonic gags work) is now a super rich CEO of sorts and somewhat estranged from his older brother, Tim ( James Marsden, taking over vocal duties from the shared work of Miles Bakshi and Tobey Maguire from the first film), it doesn’t take long for this film’s even more ludicrous premise to take shape. It aims for the comedic mark that both adults and kids will respond to, and though the Michael McCullers-penned script isn’t exactly razor-sharp and, for lack of a better word, smart, it’s so off-kilter and ludicrously bonkers that it’s likely to win the older audiences over whilst distracting the youngens with its shiny visuals and ultimate positivity.

It was a bizarre comedy that entirely banked on its central premise – a baby that spoke like an entitled adult – and though it earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Film, it was hardly on the same scale of a Pixar or a Ghibli production.īut we all know money talks, and so here we are with a ridiculous sequel – The Boss Baby: Family Business – that, like its predecessor, hopes its premise is wild and amusing enough to justify its existence. I think it’s a fair assumption to state that not many people expected Tom McGrath‘s 2017 effort The Boss Baby to clear the half a billion dollars it did at the global box office.

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