{"id":22103,"date":"2012-07-08T14:11:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T22:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=22103"},"modified":"2012-07-08T19:16:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T03:16:58","slug":"ted-seth-macfarlane-2012-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=22103","title":{"rendered":"Ted (Seth MacFarlane, 2012): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy<\/a>.\u00a0 Viewed at CineArts @Santana Row, San Jose, CA.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0A lonely boy is compelled to wish his teddy bear to life in conjunction with a falling star, when he is bullied\u00a0by neighborhood kids and in need of a best friend.<\/p>\n

Cuddly Teddy becomes a devoted friend and confidante, and also a celebrity, even appearing on the Johnny Carson Show.\u00a0 As the years go by, John (Mark Wahlberg) and his teddy, or ted<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(voiced by Seth MacFarlane), stay\u00a0close and grow older, but never grow up.<\/p>\n

At 35 John works at a rental car agency, but has difficulty showing up on time, due to the increasingly\u00a0bad influences of ted and his fondness for drugs, beer, loose women, and T.V.<\/p>\n

John and ted trash-talk, break wind, guzzle beer, and are basic\u00a0blood brothers during thunderstorms.\u00a0 Live-in love Lori (Mila Kunis), becomes the fly in the ointment, when she decides it’s time for John to stand on his own two feet, and ted must move out.<\/p>\n

Surprisingly ted is able to find himself\u00a0digs\u00a0and a job,\u00a0and has the remarkable ability to impress his boss\u00a0whenever he shows bad judgment\u00a0or screws up (i.e. nailing a blond grocery clerk on top of the produce), and always manages to incur a promotion.<\/p>\n

The turning point\u00a0for these counterproductive characters\u00a0are\u00a0the father and son stalker-duo, named\u00a0Donny (Giovanni Ribisi)\u00a0and Robert (Aedin Mincks), who pose as “fans” of ted’s, and try to entice him to come live with them, in their creepy Norman Bates style home.<\/p>\n

Having zero expectations, I was shockingly entertained by several hysterical moments in this film, namely\u00a0ted’s job promotions!\u00a0 Admittedly, ted <\/em>belongs to a genre of film that is strictly crude and dumb-ass, for the sake of being crude and dumb-ass, as in the antics of Hangover <\/em>and Hangover Part\u00a0II<\/em>,\u00a0and the lesser funny Bridesmaids<\/em> and Horrible Bosses.\u00a0 <\/em>The humor is based on stereo-typical people or events, which of course hold some truths that enable the writers to tap into a certain reality as we know it.<\/p>\n

It’s refreshing to see Mark Wahlberg, who rarely disappoints, in a comedic role, and Mila Kunis is\u00a0perfect\u00a0as his straight man.\u00a0 Special kudos must\u00a0go\u00a0to Giovanni Ribisi, for his smooth\u00a0but disturbing, chester-the-molester character.<\/p>\n

Written, directed, and produced by Seth MacFarlane (creator of Family Guy<\/em>), there are a few lulls, but overall a disgustingly funny film.<\/p>\n

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Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy.\u00a0 Viewed at CineArts @Santana Row, San Jose, CA. \u00a0A lonely boy is compelled to wish his teddy bear to life in conjunction with a falling star, when he is bullied\u00a0by neighborhood kids and in need of a best friend. Cuddly Teddy becomes a devoted friend and confidante, and also a celebrity, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}