


Now an adult with children of his own, “Boss Baby” protagonist Tim (James Marsden) has become estranged from his younger brother, now a high-powered, busy Boss Man with no memory of his unusual infancy. Wasting nary a minute of its nearly two-hour running time catching newcomers up on the larger Boss Baby lore, “Family Business” dives headfirst into a plot that’s no less dense. conglomerate, equipped with specially powered formula and pacifiers, and sent on a reconnaissance mission to take down Big Puppy.

For film with a one-joke premise, the original “Boss Baby” actually had a rather complicated plot, in which a standard sibling rivalry conflict between a seven-year-old boy and his baby brother is complicated by the fact that the baby in question, Ted (Baldwin), is in fact an undercover agent from the all-powerful Baby Corp. And honestly, kudos to returning director Tom McGrath for twice managing to hit all of the standard kidpic paces with a concept this insane.
