Tabitha’s younger infant sister Tina (Amy Sedaris, who doesn’t strike as any better, worse, or even different from Alec Baldwin’s interpretation other than gender and a more relaxed head)) also happens to be a boss baby and aware that scheming is afoot. Armstrong (Jeff Goldblum, surprisingly not leaving much of an effect here). Her total focus has shifted towards school work partly so she can one day be successful like her wealthy hedge fund uncle Ted (the titular boss baby in the first movie, still voiced by Alec Baldwin), and also because shady things are going on at the new school run by one Dr. This time around, the story follows Tim Templeton (only as an adult with the voice of James Marsden replacing Topher Grace) started the sentence his seven-year-old daughter Tabitha (voiced by Ariana Greenblatt) drifting away. To be fair, the entire simplistic premise of some babies behaving and talking like fully grown workaholic adults at a corporation called Bab圜orp is inherently silly and ripe for lowbrow humor, with both of these movies thankfully manage to avoid. For as often as an intriguing dynamic or scene arises, there’s one that’s either random or unfunny. The Boss Baby: Family Business will successfully perform its duty of entertaining children, but it leaves something to be desired narratively, routinely flirting with embracing more thoughtful and occasionally heavier themes (like a Pixar movie) only to fall back on too much ridiculousness like, say, an overblown city car chase that boasts a couple of explosions and a massive snowball causing further destruction. Fortunately, these are not necessarily complex movies and, if anything, the visuals still came away as one of the only high spots here (there are Christmas pageants, imaginative song and dance visions on top of musical notes, a bright color palette that pops, and impressive detail when it comes to both character models and terrain such as snow). The Templeton brothers have become adults and drifted away from each other, but a new boss baby with a cutting-edge approach is about to bring them together again – and inspire a new family business.īefore diving into The Boss Baby: Family Business, it must be mentioned that the screening platform for watching the movie (there were no theatrical screenings here in Chicago) had some issues, mainly a never-ending stream of lag that was running at maybe 15 frames per second.

Featuring the voice talents of Alec Baldwin, James Marsden, Jeff Goldblum, Eva Longoria, Lisa Kudrow, Jimmy Kimmel, Amy Sedaris, Ariana Greenblatt, and James McGrath.

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