Smaller viewers may well thrill to the relentlessness. We’ll say one thing for Boss Baby 2: its untidy, unpredictable, and unmannerly form does, indeed, evoke the exhausting, mucky business of baby tending, albeit with nothing like the familial rewards. If you think that’s lazy, stay tuned for Jeff Goldblum’s terrible secret.

As Boss Baby 2 opens, Tim is a stay-at-home dad who has drifted apart from his adult hedge-fund brother Ted (still Baldwin) and who fears that his precocious eight-year-old daughter, Tabitha, is growing up too fast.Įnter baby Tina (Amy Sedaris), Tim’s infant daughter on a secret mission from Bab圜orps, a mission that requires – wait for it – dad Tim and Uncle Ted to drink magical formula that turns them into babies again. It feels churlish to call a talking baby movie implausible but the screenplay by Austin Powers co-writer Michael McCullers really does test one’s faith in the three-act structure and in enchanted ponies (yes, there’s an enchanted pony). The film has subsequently spawned a TV series and this largely abysmal sequel. It helped that the chief executive usurper, voiced by Alec Baldwin, evoked Alec Baldwin’s SNL shtick as Donald Trump. The hit family comedy, told from the perspective of unreliable seven-year-old narrator Tim Templeton (James Marsden), framed the arrival of a baby brother as a hostile corporate takeover.

Whatever its faults, 2017’s The Boss Baby – as adapted from Marla Frazee’s best-selling picture book – had a concept. Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

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