John Bennett, a man whose childhood wish of bringing his teddy bear to life came true, now must decide between keeping the relationship with the bear or his girlfriend, Lori.
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That was an excellent one.
Admirable film.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.
A lot of people gave this movie bad reviews, but I am sick of Political Correctness. I am not such a big fan of Family Guy. Find it annoying, but this movie was cute. There was a lot of crude humor, which is to be expected in most films today. However, the movie had a heart. A boy gets a teddy bear as a kid who talks. Both become obnoxious and immature as adults, but when the star's girlfriend gives him an ultimatum to give up Ted the teddy bear and grow up or lose her, both the Teddy Bear and adult start to grow up. I was laughing throughout the movie. Yes, the movie was corny but people nowadays have become too serious and need to chill out. That is what we use to say in the 80s. Have fun and laugh at this movie. Not a great film, but still plenty of laughs.
Ted is a movie, well, rather a puppet that came to life because of a Xmas wish, and becomes best friends with its owner since childhood, and somehow, the duo makes a good time-killing movie, with fine humor including dirty jokes and whatnot, I found myself laughing spontaneously from time to time, the movie gets serious sometimes, but generally, this movie is nice.7/10
Because the "Family Guy" TV show has been on the air for over a decade now, there is an entire generation of comedy fans who have grown up with its raunchy, celebrity-bashing, voice-acting, frat-party style of humor. As such, a film like "Ted" can now wildly succeed in a contained theater format, and it does (in this case) with hilarious results.For a basic plot summary, "Ted" sees young John Bennett (Mark Wahlberg) giving life to his childhood teddy bear (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) via a magical wish one long-ago Christmas night. Fast-forward about 26 years, however, and suddenly Ted is now a pot-smoking, wise- cracking, babe-chasing celebrity who keeps John from realizing his full potential. When girlfriend Lori (Mila Kunis) comes into John's life, John must ultimately choose between her and Ted in order to figure out what his future will hold.Quite obviously, this movie is made for the "Family Guy set". I mean, practically ever FG voice makes some kind of appearance here, and the jokes are of the same sort of crude/sexual/celebrity/juvenile nature. As such, I know a number of individuals who would walk out of the theater in disgust. For those who "get it", though, it is absolutely hilarious. I don't want to go into any details and ruin the fun of many of the film's best jokes, but suffice it to say that you'll never go more than a couple of minutes with a belly-laugh.Besides the jokes, the acting is also tremendous. Kunis is fast becoming the "Queen of the rom- com" and turns in another great performance here, while Wahlberg is convincing as a sort of "Peter Pan" character who is in no hurry to grow up. MacFarlane's voice of Ted (in which can be heard all of Peter, Brian, & Stewie from FG fame) never gets old either.Also, there is more to "Ted" than just comedy. It contains some impressive action sequences, as well as some character development and drama surpassing that which one would expect in movies that SHOULD showcase those things. This movie, despite the humor type, takes itself very seriously at its core and strives to provide more than just the laughs that one knows will exist coming in.In essence, "Ted" is a sort of "coming of age" for Seth McFarlane's unique set of skills. Whereas he once was thrown off FOX's airwaves for being a little too crude, he can now make a movie about a pot-smoking, expletive-spewing teddy bear that leads its opening weekend at the box office. Why the switch? Because, after years of honing his comedic style, MacFarlane found the right mix of actors and tone to produce a movie that stands up well on its own merits.
If you are an adult with a good sense of humour as comedy movies go its a must seeI think ted the teddy bear is a brilliant creation. How he is such a modern day slacker who doesn't give a ***,, Hes one of the funniest creations in the past few years! As they say simple things can be the best. And the Idea of a Bad ass Teddy bear is to me a very funny idea. To the Haters, its a comedy movie about a teddy bear its not trying to be a profound learning experience! And to the PC Freaks, ya the comedy is crude and anything goes but so are all the most applauded comedians of history. ALSO a movie that pokes fun at Racism and Sexism does NOT make the movie Racist and Sexist!!!! Learn the difference ye sensitive whinebags!!!