The Boss Baby: Family Business (2024)

The Boss Baby: Family Business (known in other territories as The Boss Baby 2) is a sequel film in The Boss Baby franchise. It released in the United States on July 2, 2021 in traditional and select RealD 3D and Dolby Cinema locations, by Universal Pictures; it also streamed on paid tiers of Peaco*ck for 60 days. It was directed by Tom McGrath. Tobey Maguire, miles Bakshi and Nina Zoe Bakshi did not reprise their roles as Tim Templeton and Tabitha Templeton

Premise

Tim and his little brother, Ted, have become adults and drifted away from each other. Tim is now a married dad, and Ted is a hedge fund CEO. 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. Tim and his wife, Carol, live in the suburbs with their daughter, Tabitha, and new infant, Tina. Tabitha, who’s at the top of her class at the prestigious Acorn Center for Advanced Childhood, idolizes her Uncle Ted and wants to become like him, but Tim worries that she’s working too hard and is missing out on a normal childhood. When Tina reveals that she’s a top-secret agent for Baby Corp on a mission to uncover the dark secrets behind Tabitha’s school and its mysterious founder, Dr. Erwin Armstrong, it will reunite the Templeton brothers in unexpected ways, leading them to re-evaluate the meaning of family and discover what truly matters.^[2]

"Building on the success of the first film, which earned more than $500 million worldwide, The Boss Baby: Family Business is directed by returning filmmaker Tom McGrath and is produced by Jeff Hermann. "^[3]

Plot

Set 30 years after the events of the first film, Tim Templeton is now fully grown and lives with his wife Carol and their two daughters, 10-year-old Tabitha and infant Tina. Tim's younger brother Ted is now a successful CEO and is never around, instead sending lavish gifts to Tim and his family. Tabitha is exhibiting more grown-up behavior, leaving his father very disheartened. One night, a discouraged Tim wonders about the person his daughter is becoming, he goes to the attic, where he finds his old toy from 30 years ago, Wizzie, who's at first happy to see Tim again, but angry that he stuffed him in box. Suddenly, he hears something from Tina's room. He discovers that Tina is a Boss Baby, just as Ted once was, and that she has been assigned to get Ted there for a special mission. Tim refuses to call, saying that he will never come, and encourages Tina to go back to sleep. However, Tina leaves a false voicemail for Ted, luring him to the Templeton's house.

The next morning, while the Templetons doing their daily routines, a helicopter arrives. Ted arrives and Tim tries to explain to him that Tina is a Boss Baby and Ted just does not remember that he was one, too. Tina reveals herself as a Boss Baby to Ted and gives them both magic pacifiers to visit Baby Corp. Tina introduces the brothers to a new formula that will allow them to turn back into children for 48 hours in order to go undercover to Tabitha's school and figure out what Dr. Erwin Armstrong, founder and principal of the school, is planning behind parents' back.

At the school, Tim, now as his 7-year-old self, follows Tabitha to her class while baby Ted is placed with other babies. Ted rallies the babies to help him get out of the playroom so that he can go to Armstrong's office to investigate. Tim tries to get sent to the principal's office as well by disrupting class, but is instead put in "The Box" for timeout. Ted discovers that Armstrong is actually a baby himself, having run away from home after realizing that he was smarter than his parents and now makes money by creating popular phone apps. His ultimate plan is to get rid of every parent on B-Day, so that they can not tell their children what to do anymore. After being unable to get ahold of BabyCorp and seeing that the brothers are once again drifting apart, Tina makes a show of quitting and says that they will complete the mission themselves.

On the night of the holiday pageant, where Tabitha is supposed to sing a solo, the brothers and Tina plan to expose Armstrong as a fraud. However, they learn that B-Day is set to happen that night through Armstrong's new app, QT-Snap, which will hypnotize the parents (including Tim's parents, Ted Sr. and Janice, and his wife, Carol) into mindless zombies. Both Tim and Ted are caught by Armstrong's ninja babies and are put in The Box, which slowly starts to fill with water. Tabitha sings her solo, but when she sees that Tim has not showed up as he promised, she runs off the stage crying. She is consoled by Tina, who reveals her identity and her mission, and she agrees to help her sister by getting to the server and shutting down QT-Snap before it can go worldwide. Ted is able to call Precious, Tabitha's pet pony, into the school, who breaks them out of The Box.

Tim and Ted reach the server first, but they are stopped by Armstrong, who calls the zombie parents for backup. While the brothers hold them back as the formula starts to wear off, Tina and Tabitha get up to the server. Tabitha is able to hack in and pull up the shutdown screen, but the keyboard is destroyed by Armstrong. The sisters then set off a candy volcano using Mentos and soda, destroying the servers and turn all parents back to normal.

Tina then reveals that bringing Tim and Ted back together was her true mission, and the whole Templeton family gathers to celebrate Christmas, while Armstrong returns to his own family.

Casts

• Alec Baldwin as Theodore "Ted" Lindsay Templeton Jr.
• James Marsden as Timothy Leslie Templeton
  • Miles Bakshi as (young voice-over)
• Amy Sedaris as Tina Templeton
• Ariana Greenblatt as Tabitha Templeton
• Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Armstrong
• Eva Longoria as Carol Templeton
• James McGrath as Wizzie
• Jimmy Kimmel as Ted Templeton Sr.
• Lisa Kudrow as Janice Templeton
• Raphael Alejandro as Nathan Pickles, Lead Baby Ninja
• Serenity Brown as Meghan Glick
• David Soren as Jimbo
• Nicholas Gist as Triplets
• James Ryan as Connie
• Dave Smith as Movie Patron
• Nova Reed as Little Bo Peep Baby
• Molly K. Gray as Creepy Girl
• Ashlyn Lundahl as "No" Girl
• Dave Needham as Glue Baby
• Tom McGrath as Dr. Tiffany Hamilton
• Reyn Doi as Box Kid
• Collin Erker as Time Out Kid
• Walt Dohrn as Baby Bouncer
• April Lawrence as Acorn Center Computer
• Kristin Lowe and Margie Cohn as Pageant Moms
• Connor Albrecht as Dreidel Kid

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Trivia

• It is seen that the Forever puppies are in Baby Corp.
• On Dreamworks' website they have created an activity book for the film.
• This film takes place 30 years after the events of the first film, taking place in the 2010s.
• James Mardsen's first Animated film since Enchanted.
• During the chase scene, a man in the theater was watching Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, suggesting it as an Easter egg to Spirit Untamed which was supposed to be out after The Boss Baby: Family Business but ended up being released before the aforementioned film. Additionally, Jellyfish Studios, who worked on Spirit Untamed, helped with the film on the production assets needed for Family Business.
• The "No" Girl's style of saying the word "No" may be a reference to Heavy saying no from the Team Fortress Series.
  • It can be listened to right here.

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