TED Movie Review

           

            He’s the man who created TV’s Family Guy, American Dad, and The Cleveland Show and now Seth MacFarlane has released his feature film debut Ted. Starring Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis theater goers lined up to see if Mr. MacFarlane would strike comedy gold or be forced to release more Family Guy knockoffs for the rest of his life.

            As a young boy John Bennett didn’t have a whole lot of friends, so naturally when he was given a stuffed teddy bear for Christmas John only wished that it when he talked to it, it could talk back. Magic prevails and the next morning John wakes up to see his teddy bear come to life and instantaneously the two become famous. Cut to several years later where our story takes place and John (Mark Wahlberg) and his teddy bear, Ted (voiced by Seth Macfarlane), are still living together and still best friends, but when Lori (Mila Kunis), John’s girlfriend of four years, asks for Ted to move out John and Ted’s friendship is tested like never before.

            I was a big fan of Family Guy when it first started with its mix of witty pop culture references, political humor, and just amazingly stupid situations which is something Seth MacFarlane can be very good at balancing which is what he has done with Ted.  Every part of this comedy is solid but there are two things that stand out about it. One being the only downfall of Seth MacFarlane’s blend of comedy, which is he has a tendency to rely on easy jokes such as fart jokes that can be funny but if used too much they become the most obnoxious and annoying jokes a movie can have, but what surprised me the most about this movie is the heart behind the characters, a person will find themselves genuinely caring about what could happen to this talking, walking teddy bear.

            This is by no means the best comedy ever written, but definitely the funniest movie I’ve seen this summer. Some great jokes and great cameos make this movie worth watching. I give it a B.