Fun, yet boring

Rating: 5/10 (10 July 2012)

As a huge Family Guy fan, I was excited to see Seth MacFarlane directing a live action feature. The humor is exactly what you would expect, however, Family Guy is a 22 minute show and Ted stretched a single gag for way too long. Family Guy is quick and hits you with joke after joke, but the timing for Ted became painful. I felt MacFarlane hung himself with the R rating. Free of network censorship, it felt like he tried too hard to try and shock an audience that's already been around the block a few times. My ADD checked out halfway through the movie and I drifted into boredom. People will argue and say "what about that scene" or "I loved the part when they did this", but wouldn't you think a feature movie would have more than 2 or 3 funny parts? Would you watch Robot Chicken if it were only funny for 15 seconds and the remaining 10 minutes were boring? Wait for home video and put it on in the background... and get a time machine and watch it when you were 14 years old- that might help too.