REVIEW / FILM OPINION: After a first episode released in 2017, DreamWorks embarked on the production of a sequel to “The Boss Baby”. The animated feature film is in theaters this Wednesday, August 18, 2021.
Baby boss : the sequel arrives
After a relatively well-received first opus in 2017, DreamWorks decides to produce a second film. It must be said that the first episode had brought back more than $ 527 million in box office revenue. In the meantime, there has even been an animated series called Baby Boss: Business picks up. But this time, the business baby returns to the big screen, once again in front of Tom McGrath’s camera. In this new installment, the plot takes place years after the first film. Tim and Ted have become adults, but will have to return to their children’s bodies, to save the world once again.
Let’s be clear at the outset, this new episode is much less convincing than the first film. Screenwriters Michael McCullers and Marla Frazee lack creativity and re-serve the same story as in the first film. This suite actually lacks originality and especially renewal, thus basing itself on what it has learned to serve the same recipe, already reheated …
Not recommended for epileptics
Boss Baby: A Family Affair lack of impact, relevance, see even useful. Faced with this extremely formatted and expected product, one still wonders the interest of the existence of this proposal, which adds nothing more to the mythology. Boss Baby could have been content to exist through the first movie only, but DreamWorks tried to capitalize on this franchise, not really unforgettable.
Above all, the feature film is symptomatic of current animated productions. DreamWorks, far from their enormous success (Shrek and Madagascar leading) seems to sink into a type of epileptic cinema. In the manner of The Trolls, Boss Baby 2 is a work that drips with sounds, noises, colors, all through a frantic pace. As if the concentration of ten-year-olds did not exceed five seconds. Everything is linked together at an aberrant speed, in a way so eccentric that all the naturalness has disappeared from this type of production. Exciting product for youth, Boss Baby 2 is an extravagant, cracked film that lacks creativity and which masks its faults with sickly agitation.
Stay happily an endearing moral. That of two brothers who lost sight of each other, and who use this story to renew their bond. A touching look at the passage of time, at the loss of youth, on the responsibility of the human being, in an ephemeral society which leaves the primary feelings on the side.
Boss Baby 2: A Family Affair by Tom McGrath in theaters August 18, 2021. Above the trailer. Find all our trailers here.
