Too real to be absurd, but good acting

Rating: 7/10 (29 July 2012)

In this movie Mark Wahlberg's character has a buddy who is a living, breathing Teddy bear.
In order for this movie to be funny you have to find the idea of a crude teddy bear to be ridiculous.
For this to happen, you need to be able to associate the voice of the voice actor with a CGI bear.
The voice was a little too real for me. I could imagine in my head what the voice actor probably looked like. I hard a hard time identifying the voice with the CGI character.
So, instead of seeing an absurdly crude voice come out of an absurdly cute bear, I just saw them separately.
But there was still some great acting from Mark Wahlberg, and a few other actors. And some interesting Boston-related humor. The actress who played his trophy girlfriend was forgettable though.