Farts and Poop = Yuk Yuk

Rating: 6/10 (28 January 2013)

It seems utterly useless to complain about the current modern infatuation with flatulence and poop. Last week there was an entire BoB's Burgers (Animated Fox TV) episode about "The Mad Pooper".
MacFarlane's The Family Guy (Animated Fox TV) has been a mainstay on Sunday night for over a decade and frequently uses such toilet stuff ad nauseam. So there must be a market for this boring and repetitious yuk. But one just has to ask. How many times can hearing a fart or seeing a pile of poop get a laugh?
So it is there not for a laugh, but for shock. A cringe. A way to embarrass those who think this kind of stuff is disgusting. To separate you from them (like a kid's club). Anyway back to Ted. If every fart and poop joke and scene were removed from this movie; would it still be as funny? Absolutely. What, if anything, did the scene with the hooker taking a dump in the living room accomplish? Absolutely nothing.
It is a kind of charming, clever, interesting, infantile comedy, or maybe sophomoric would be more appropriate. There is enough here to entertain and as always the creator's sharp Pop Culture wit is amazing. The movie is so good when it's good but when it's bad it stinks.
But here it is. Obsessed with the anus. So it is infantile. For that it is quite a disappointment, not just here but in a all of its modern marketing. So if you are up for it, hold your nose and take a chance.