The Boss Baby: Family Business is the sequel to the 2017 film that starred Alec Baldwin as a businessman who was also a management baby from Baby Corp but this time he is all grown up as is his more family oriented brother (James Marsden) who now has a daughter (Amy Sedaris) who recruits the brothers to help Baby Corp fight off an evil doctor (Jeff Goldblum) who wants to turn babies against their parents for good.
I really enjoyed the first Boss Baby, it had Alec Baldwin being his usual snarky self but in the body of a cute little baby and it put a big smile on my face a lot of the time and I particularly loved the idea of family babies and management babies in Baby Corp, this sequel however is okay but it falls very short of the first film for me.
And the main reason for that I feel is the storytelling, there are what feels like 2 or 3 separate sideplots going on (Tim wanting to connect with his young daughter, the evil doctor and his plan and Ted learning to not be so closed off) and it often feels like too much, don’t get me wrong it doesn’t feel messy in a sense that these storylines don’t gel they do just fine but they kind of make the film feel like baby food and one that doesn’t taste very nice either.
As for the vocal performances Baldwin continues to be great fun in this role and I hope his career isn’t badly affected by the awful situation on Rust, James Marsden is okay but I feel the Sonic film last year used him better than these films have, Jeff Goldblum is okay but there was a part of me that wished Taika Waititi was voicing this character instead as it really just felt like Gldblum playing himself which he’s had a bad habit of doing more and more nowadays.
And so that was the Boss Baby: Family Business and its okay but the first film was a lot better, 2 out of 5.
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