![]() ![]() 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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