Tim sings a lullaby, and Baby jumps to him and is revived by the formula.īaby is taken back to Baby Corp and promoted, while all traces of him are erased from the parents' house and minds. Tim saves his parents, but Baby goes completely infantile and is stranded on the rocket, which is about to launch. Tim and Baby fight Francis on a raised walkway, pretending to be pirates they knock him into the vat of augmented formula, where he turns back into a baby and is taken home by Eugene. Templeton suspect something is wrong when they hear their children, and are locked up underneath the rocket to be burned. The boys, with help from the neighborhood toddlers, escape Eugene and head to Las Vegas, where they find Francis ready to send a rocket of Forever Puppies out into the world. Without the formula, Baby starts to periodically revert to normal infant behavior. He steals Baby's formula, intending to use it to make a "Forever Puppy" that never grows up or dies, which will take all love from babies and give him his revenge on Bab圜orp.įrancis whisks Tim's parents away to a conference in Las Vegas, and leaves his brother Eugene to watch the children in the guise of a female nanny. He was fired and forced to live with a hillbilly family, but saved his magic pacifier. Francis reveals he was the Boss of Baby Corp once, but started to slowly grow up because he was partially intolerant to the formula. They are captured by Francis, the CEO of Puppy Co. On Family Day, the Templetons take Tim and Baby with them to Puppy Co., where the boys sneak away to investigate.
As that would mean Baby would have to stay with the Templetons and grow up, Tim and Baby agree to work together to prevent this. However, the boys overhear Baby's superiors threatening to fire him, should he fail. Baby also explains he's on a special mission to discover why the world's love of babies is being threatened lately by love of puppies, and came to the Templetons because Tim's Parents work for Puppy Co. Most babies go to families, but those who don't respond to tickling are sent to management, where they are given a special baby formula that allows them to think and behave as adults while remaining young forever. Tim and Baby are grounded until they learn to get along.īaby makes Tim suck a special pacifier that allows them to see Baby Corp, where babies come from. When Baby destroys one of Tim's favorite toys, Tim attempts to slingshot him out a window, but his parents stop him and he accidentally slingshots the tape into the street, where a car smashes it. The parents see this as the children playing in the yard. Timothy attempts to record them on a cassette tape, but he is seen and chased by Baby and his cronies. One day, Baby holds a staff meeting with other toddlers and infants, under the guise of a neighborhood play date. However, Tim, who is fast growing jealous, sees Baby talking in an adult voice and behaving like an adult whenever Mr. Baby, whom Tim saw arrive in a taxi, clad in suit and tie, and carrying a briefcase, behaves normally around the adults, crying for attention and food and diapers all day and night.
Timothy "Tim" Templeton, an imaginative 7-year-old boy, relishes his parents' attention and is horrified when a new baby brother arrives. The film received Best Animated Feature nominations at the Academy Awards, Annie Awards, and Golden GlobesĪ Netflix television series, The Boss Baby: Back in Business, premiered on April 6, 2018, while a sequel film, The Boss Baby: Family Business, was released in theaters and on Peacock on July 2, 2021. It grossed $528 million worldwide against its $125 million budget. The film received mixed reviews from critics upon release, who praised its animation and voice performances but criticized its plot and humor. The Boss Baby premiered at the Miami International Film Festival on March 12, 2017, and was released in the United States on March 31. The first installment in The Boss Baby franchise, the plot follows a boy helping his baby brother who is a secret agent in the war for adults' love between babies and puppies. Loosely based on the 2010 picture book of the same name by Marla Frazee, the film was directed by Tom McGrath, from a screenplay by Michael McCullers, and stars the voices of Alec Baldwin as the title character, along with Steve Buscemi, Jimmy Kimmel, Lisa Kudrow, Miles Bakshi, and Tobey Maguire. The Boss Baby is a 2017 American computer-animated comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox.