Teddy in a flash

Rating: 6/10 (26 October 2013)

Although regarded as a high concept bad taste comedy featuring a Teddy Bear.
Ted is a really a twisted romantic comedy from Seth MacFarlane.
Mark Wahlberg plays John who when he was 8 years old received a Teddy Bear for Christmas that came to life.
For a brief moment Ted became a celebrity but 27 years later he and John live together in an apartment with a low rent job, smoking dope, getting drunk and making risqué jokes.
However John has Mila Kunis as a girlfriend who feels unappreciated. She also attracts the attention of her sleazy employer.
Ted is also attracting the attention of a creepy guy played by Giovanni Ribisi.
While the film has some bad taste jokes and scenes of Ted humping a woman which some might shocki some people. It is not that heavy going to many British viewers who have been used to grotesque alternative comedy for over three decades.
At the heart of the story is a predictable rom com. Ted is fun, tasteless and enjoyable. It was also nice to see Flash Gordon again after all these years.