Overrated, disappointing.

Rating: 5/10 (6 December 2012)

Seth McFarlane's movie. That was enough to interest me at first, but the trailer made me go 'meh'. A wise talking grown-up teddy bear could grow old real fast. But then my brother reminded me that this could be like Family Guy's Brian, and that got me interested again. Finally, I watched it. And I had to go back to 'meh'. :-/
Lonely boy John Bennet wishes against a shooting star to let his teddy bear, Ted, come to life. And he does. This turns his childhood into a memorable and fun one, as shown by a quick movie montage. But the trouble is that John grows up and Ted holds him back from maturing up.
John and Ted lives a semi-juvenile life, and Ted's girlfriend wants him to grow up, and for that, Ted needs to move out. Hilarity ensues. At least, hilarity would have ensued, had the film-makers not tried to mix in a lot of emotional stuff into the mix not unlike poorly chosen toy stuffing. Not every film and theme needs to be grounded to reality - when your story premise is a talking toy bear with cotton stuffing, the reality ship has sailed off the horizon. The movie could have been fun. As it stands, it has a few moments here and there, but I wouldn't recommend you sit through it.