Entertaining but lazy comedy by Seth McFarlane

Rating: 5/10 (4 August 2013)

I am a McFarlane fan but the movie seemed to me too hung to Family Guy's cast and regular jokes. So I was disappointed to see that the teddy bear was made "funny" out of being a total jerk based on a combination of Quagmire-Peter Griffin from Family Guy. The idea of a teddy bear partier foulmouthed could be funny if the character wasn't so mean and utterly despicable.
As a Seth's follower I appreciate his 80's references and some of the comedy situations come from cameos from actors from Seth's favorite 80's movies: Top Gun and Flash Gordon. Those were classical McFarlane so I didn't dislike them. But the movie doesn't get out of the jokes and you never get a reason to like either Ted or to cheer for John Bennet, he never gets how disgusting his friend is to his girlfriend of four years. The movie includes a grotesque scene that IMDb doesn't like in Bennet's apartment which the girlfriend has to clean (!) and the teddy bear having sex with a coworker over food in a grocery store and getting promoted for it as a joke on corporate America I suppose... is not that the humor is too brown is that is not that funny in my opinion.
There is a competitor for the love of Mila Kunis character, but the guy is a total jerk all the time so we never see her falling for him, unless she is a total idiot too as she would be better alone. The denouement of the movie is not too bad, but you have to be a hardcore Family Guy fan to like the movie as it seems a long episode of the series. In the future I would like McFarlane to try some humor without trying to make an offensive joke every sentence or at least not fall for the easy ones, we have Family Guy for that: R-rated stuff that IMDb does not allow me to write... sometimes when you break taboos I consider them fine, but FamGuy has a tendency to try to be over the top and so we have enough of this in that cartoon series so it looks bad in a movie that otherwise has a good premise and a good cast.