Wild, hilarious, ridiculous, and outrageous.

Rating: 9/10 (11 August 2012)

Seth McFarlene is a genius. Sure, some of his jokes on Family Guy miss the mark, but most of them are brilliant. So when I heard he was directing Ted, it just sounded right. When you're watching the film, you truly get the essence of the show right from the opening scene, and thank goodness it uses the good jokes.
What drew me into the movie the most, besides its premise, was it's lead actor, Mark Wahlberg. What I admire about Wahlberg is that he does things that are out of his comfort zone, like 2010's The Other Guys. Here, he honestly gives one of his best performances as a 35 year old man child named John. And even though he seems out of his comfort zone, something feels right about it.
The movie revolves around a John and his talking teddy bear named Ted(voiced by McFarlene himself). John was a lonely kid and wished that his teddy bear was real, and so overnight he became just that. But years go by, and now John and Ted are grown up, sitting around their apartment getting baked, watching Flash Gordon, and making John's pretty girlfriend Lori(the wonderful Mila Kunis) a little mad. So, she gives John an ultimatum, and the movie goes on from there. But I can't give too much away.
Ted is absolutely bonkers. It's a wild, ridiculous, occasionally obnoxious, strangely clever and sometimes hilarious movie filled with surprisingly decent performances from all of its actors. This is one the best movies of the year so far, and it feels bizarre to say that but it is so true. It felt like the laughs didn't stop, even if some of them were better than others. See it.
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