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This modern retelling of Greek mythology falls into a pit of questionable themes and content concerns deeper than Tartarus.
The Boss Baby is back … in the crib?
After the events of The Boss Baby: Family Business, an adult Ted Templeton is framed for embezzlement.
Ted’s innocent, but he can’t prove it. Not yet, anyway.
His only hope? Become a baby once again, stay with his brother Tim and figure out how to clear his name.
Easier said than done.
For starters, he’ll need to get his old employer, Baby Corp (a PR firm for infants that also distributes babies to families around the world), to hire him back so that he’ll have a steady supply of the formula that keeps him infantile.
And the feds aren’t Ted’s only enemies. He’ll have to stand up to babysitters, other adults-turned-babies (with nefarious pasts), his genius nieces (Tina and Tabitha) and even Baby Corp itself!
No matter, Ted’s confident he can succeed.
If there’s one thing The Boss Baby franchise has achieved, it’s delivering the message that family is one of the most important things in life. And this series adds on another message: that we are all worthy of love, even if we aren’t adorable babies anymore.
There’s a bit of toilet humor, usually focused around diapers (practically a given, considering the age of the main characters). We also hear the occasional “oh my god,” “darn” and “dang.”
But otherwise, fans of these suit-wearing toddlers will find the same family-friendly humor (and good moral lessons) in each episode that we found in the previous two films and Netflix’s first series.
After Ted, Tina and several of their Baby Corp colleagues are fired for proposing that Baby Corp market love for all babies (not just the cute ones), they decide to start their own company. However, in order to secure the startup money they need, they’ll have to prove their worth by bringing love to the most hated baby in town.
Many townsfolk are incredibly mean to a baby named Cathy because she accidentally caused the power to go out during an important sporting event. Ted and Tina’s old boss and colleagues are condescending to Ted and Tina. Someone warns that social media is bad. The Baby Corp CEO hires someone to sabotage Ted and Tina’s new company.
Someone describes a soap-opera plot involving ghosts.
Ted learns that their new company’s goal shouldn’t be about making money but about spreading love. His sister-in-law implies that she doesn’t talk to a member of her family because of money.
Federal agents determine the best way to infiltrate “Ba-Ba Town” (a town overrun by adult criminals using Baby Corp’s infant-transforming formula to escape justice).
When a character’s baby formula wears off, he turns back into an adult. He’s hidden behind a table, but he states that he’s “nekko as a gecko” behind it.
A simulation shows agents tackling and arresting infants. (And one man is disappointed when reality is much tamer than the simulation.) Infant employees of Baby Corp fight against adult criminals-turned-babies—punching, kicking and even biting. A man seemingly loses his mind after realizing that there are talking babies.
Tabitha’s parents cheer her on when she trash talks federal agents during a negotiation. We hear Ted committed a few other lesser crimes while trying to clear himself of embezzlement charges.
Ted recruits a former Baby Corp employee who became a priest in adulthood. This same baby asks another to pray for his soul after he participates in a fight. Some babies get annoyed with his pious attitude.
Tina repeatedly talks about vengeance against someone who betrayed her. But in the end, she decides to help rehabilitate her enemy instead of imprisoning her. One character acts sacrificially to save others from harm.
Ted Templeton becomes a baby in order to hide from the FBI and gets a job at Baby Corp.
Ted learns via several phone calls that he’s been framed by the executive board of his company for embezzlement because they didn’t want to go to prison for stealing company money. He convinces his niece, Tabitha, to hack into Baby Corp. and nearly frames his other niece, Tina, for it. However, he has a change of heart and confesses the truth before she can get into trouble.
Carol, Tabitha and Tina’s mom, panics when she learns Ted has become a baby and that Tina can talk. She allows Ted to stay but only if he protects her girls and promises to help them have a normal childhood. Tabitha mentions a “demolishing my enemies” course.
A grandmother harshly pinches the cheeks of several babies, making them cry and ignoring the pleas of their parents to stop. Ted tricks her into watching a video of a baby so cute it actually hurts her eyes.
After shaking Ted’s hand, a baby confesses she didn’t wash her own hands after accidentally playing with a urinal cake. Someone mistakenly believes Ted makes an excrement joke. After saying “dang,” the speaker apologizes. We also hear a couple of misuses of God’s name and “darn.”
Emily studied film and writing when she was in college. And when she isn’t being way too competitive while playing board games, she enjoys food, sleep, and geeking out with her husband indulging in their “nerdoms,” which is the collective fan cultures of everything they love, such as Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate and Lord of the Rings.
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