Me And My Teddy Bear, we got no worries and we got no cares

Rating: 7/10 (1 February 2013)

Watching Ted it took me all the way back to my long ago childhood when I had a Teddy Bear. I certainly envied Mark Wahlberg for getting his Christmas wish. Of course the story involves Mark possibly outgrowing the need for a talking Teddy Bear. And that song from my childhood Me and my Teddy Bear kept running through my head.
Ted is a charming fantasy about a young boy who grows up to be Mark Wahlberg wishing for and getting his Teddy Bear to turn into a live creature. The bear named Ted of course grows up with Wahlberg and the childish pleasures they shared, are now adult pleasures. Some very adult pleasures.
All this is coming between Wahlberg and the girl he loves Mila Kunis. She gives him an understandable ultimatum, me or the bear.
As Ted is truly a unique creature, no one in the history of planet earth was ever faced with that choice. How Mark resolves it is for you to see in the movie.
If you do see it, I'd think long and hard about taking minor kids to it. Ted is funny, but funny for adults.
I have to single out Giovanni Ribisi and young Aedin Mincks who if Wahlberg is ready to give up Ted, they'll have him. These two will creep you out and no one I would hold near and dear would get near them. Also Seth McFarlane was great in his creation of Ted both in voice and animation.
Nice enjoyable film, but not one for the kids.