The Boss Baby: Family Business

"Playtime is over."

2021 1h 47m EN

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7.3

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★7.3TMDB · 2,730

AnimationComedyAdventureFamily

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The Templeton brothers — Tim and his Boss Baby little bro Ted — have become adults and drifted away from each other. But a new boss baby with a cutting-edge approach and a can-do attitude is about to bring them together again … and inspire a new family business.

“Playtime is over.”

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Cast

James Marsden
Tim (voice)
Alec Baldwin
Boss Baby (Ted) (voice)
Amy Sedaris
Tina (voice)
Ariana Greenblatt
Tabitha (voice)
Jeff Goldblum
Dr. Armstrong (voice)
Eva Longoria
Carol (voice)
James McGrath
Wizzie (voice)
Jimmy Kimmel
Grandpa (Ted Sr.) (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Tom McGrath
Writers: Michael McCullers, Tom McGrath, Michael McCullers
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Mid-budget at $82M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

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ERA

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Released 5 years ago.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "The Boss Baby Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Hans Zimmer. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Mary Blee shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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James Marsden and Alec Baldwin and Amy Sedaris carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Playtime is over.".

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt6932874 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Tom McGrath directs. Hans Zimmer scores. Mary Blee cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Mid-budget at $82M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
2Released 5 years ago.
3Part of the "The Boss Baby Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Original score by Hans Zimmer. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Mary Blee shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6James Marsden and Alec Baldwin and Amy Sedaris carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "Playtime is over.".
8IMDB entry: tt6932874 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 10 themes, including "baby", "boss", "sequel", "computer animation".
10Released under 21 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Original score: Hans Zimmer
Editing: Mary Blee
Production design: Raymond Zibach
Sound: Paul N.J. Ottosson
Runtime: 107 min · 1h 47m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $82,000,000
Box office: $146,745,280
Return: 179% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: The Boss Baby: Family Business (2021)

Part of

The Boss Baby Collection

The adventures of Tim and his brother, Ted, A.K.A. the Boss Baby.

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Tom McGrath

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Dark Jedi2021-12-28
★ 3/10
I found the original Boss Baby really good. Great actually. Unfortunately this one was quite a disappointing. Yes, there are a fair number of funny scenes and gags splattered around the movie. The chase sequences in the beginning of the movie are quite hilarious actually. The story however is pretty lame. The original had a decent story. Yes it was a bit outlandish but at least it was a nice family story. This one is nothing of the kind. The basic premise of the story is just silly and the way it is done has pretty much turned it into a education-and-competition-is-bad piece. This father which is one of the main characters are generally behaving like a moron and when, in the middle of the action, he just wanders of like a bloody zombie to watch his daughter instead of pulling the bloody switch that would have saved everything then I lost whatever hope I might have had of liking this movie. Also, after that there was a repeated splattering of woke rubbish about how bad adults are, global warming nonsense and so on and so forth. Sure, those images came from the so called bad guy but any one with common sense knows that they were really there to push the message. I find it really despicable when woke story writers cannot keep their agenda out of children and family movies. As I wrote at the beginning, quite a disappointment.
CinemaSerf2024-01-06
★ 6/10
Ok, so I am definitely not the demographic here but I actually found the dynamic quite fun for a while. Following on from the first film (2017) we find that brothers "Tim" and "Ted" have moved on with their lives. The latter is now a successful financier, the former stays at home looking after his own children. It's only when his younger daughter starts to show that she has inherited some of the family business skills that the adventure starts to hot up and the brothers, under the fearless and determined "Tina", start their own new familial enterprise that's not about making money, but about combatting an evil and malevolent competitor! I'm not really quite sure who this film is for. Youngsters wouldn't get the thrust of the narrative nor the humour and older kids would probably be put off by the slightly uncomfortable to watch baby imagery, but the story does well enough once it gets started and though twenty minutes too long, this is no worse than many of the later Dreamworks animations that came off the production line. You'll never remember it afterwards!