Family Guy + Romantic Comedy + Toy Story = Ted

Rating: 7/10 (1 September 2012)

If you take the humor from Family Guy, the simple plot of any romantic comedy and the drama from Toy Story, put it in a blender and mix it, you get TED.
It is a good movie, and you will laugh quite a lot when reading it, it is definitely a Sunday movie. However, my expectations were higher. I was hoping so see some kind of masterpiece from Seth McFarlane, yet for me, the story was way too simple for that to be reached. A romantic comedy is definitely not what I was expecting.
If you take away the humor (taken from Family Guy) and the kidnapping drama (taken from Toy Story), you get just another romantic comedy where there is a couple that is in love, then the guy makes its mistakes, they get mad and after a bit of drama, they go back together to live happily forever after. That exactly is where McFarlane might have sold its soul to the money. Romantic Comedies are generally a silver mine (its not gold, but you can still sell it), and it was way to risky to do something else where his humor could fit.
Aside of that, the FX, music and acting is quite good.