The Boss Baby: Family Business Review

The Boss Baby: Family Business is now in theaters. It will also stream on Peacock on the same day as its theatrical release date for 60 days.

Ted and Tim Templeton are back and this time…they’re adults!

Er, and…also babies! And…it’s been, like, 30 years since the first Boss Baby movie? But also they drink a magic formula and get turned into babies again!

After a hit film and then several years as a Netflix series, the bossy babies of Boss Baby are back on the big screen with the kinetic, peculiar The Boss Baby: Family Business, in which a now-grown Ted and Tim are de-aged and ordered to infiltrate a suspiciously precocious school. The movie hits some nice, sweet notes, and has insanely busy action that will keep restless minds occupied, but overall it’s a mid-level animated distraction that doesn’t check off any exceptional boxes.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with the underlying premise of the Boss Baby franchise, but it can’t be denied that…

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