Family Gu--er, Seth MacFarlane finally makes his big screen debut

Rating: 7/10 (30 June 2012)

If you are not a Family Guy fan then stop reading and leave immediately.
If you are easily offended by crude, offensive, racial jokes stop reading and leave immediately.
If you are going to attempt to figure out why there is a talking teddy bear and nobody seems to care then stop reading and leave immediately.
Ted is basically a live-action spin of the Family Guy school of humor---full of obscure and blatant references, full of absurd and ridiculous humor, subtle satire and finally even a little bit of heart (Although only the first two seasons of Family Guy contained such a thing). Just like the show, the plot and premise is very simple—the draw is all that happens within the timeframe; that's what keeps you entertained. And Ted fits this billing too.
Basically Ted is about a man whose inability to grow up stems from his continued relationship with a teddy bear turned to life during his childhood. All in all it's an adult fairy tale, with all the crass jokes, dialogue, and insanity that you usually get from your R-rated frat pack comedies. Except this time the humor gets flung at you in massive clusters at a rapid ADD pace that may prevent you from breathing at times—while at other times you are just begging for them to throw a new funny sequence.
This movie feels so much like Family Guy and not just because it's from the same writer/director and contains the same types of jokes as the cult hit---a good portion of the staff can be seen/heard here. Mila Kunis, Patrick Warburton, Seth MacFarlane himself (voicing the bear with a Peter Griffin accent), and even the musical score comes from the same composer as the show (Walter Murphy).
To sum this up nicely, if you enjoy (and can tolerate) the Family Guy brand and the times they do miss their jokes, then there's no reason why you couldn't enjoy this. While the third act really bogged down the entire picture with a boring subplot that actually bares minimal continuity to the first half, I can't deny it's a fun ride and a great debut from Seth MacFarlane.
Let's be serious, any movie with a dozen Flash Gordon references has to be entertaining.