![]() ![]() “Ron,” Boss Baby offers his steely greeting. ![]() Even Santa gets a pretty chilly reception as Boss Baby sits on his lap with his arms folded defiantly across his chest. Boss Baby throws his winter hat off in protest and literally has to be dragged on the floor by his little ankles inside the shiny shopping center. In Romper’s exclusive look at the trailer for the new holiday special, The Boss Baby: Christmas Bonus, it’s time for the Templetons to get in the car and make their way to the mall for holiday pictures with the jolly Big Man. So big brother Tim pulls out all the Christmas stops when he takes his stubborn sibling to the mall on Christmas Eve to have a sit-down with Santa. Even when everyone in the Templeton family is getting psyched about getting their ho-ho-ho’s on and celebrating the holiday traditions, Boss Baby cannot be bothered. His big brother Tim (James Marsden) is now a stay-at-home dad with two daughters – and the single flicker of human interest here is Tim’s heartbreak at his preteen Tabitha (Ariana Greenblatt) growing apart from him.It’s Boss Baby’s first Christmas, and of course in his classic curmudgeonly fashion, he’s just not having it. He’s got no time for family – “I can’t do Christmas on the 25th” he says, one of a handful of decent lines snuck in for adults. ![]() The Boss Baby 2 is set a few decades later: little Ted (Baldwin), the double-espresso-drinking boss baby, is all grown up into a hedge fund CEO. The novelty in the first film of seeing a baby in a business suit with tiny Trump hands, sucking a dummy and voiced by Alec Baldwin, has well and truly worn off. ![]() The frantic pace will leave grownups feeling as if they’ve been battered over the head with a brick, or at the very least reaching for the Anadin Extra. It is a noisy and nonsensical film, with a pointlessly convoluted plot that sailed over the head of the four-year-old I watched it with. W hen Martin Amis was asked if he’d ever consider writing for children, he reportedly answered: “I might, if I had brain damage.” His sniffiness completely disregards the genius it takes to see the world through a kid’s eyes – not something this Boss Baby sequel pulls off with any flair. ![]()
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