Inside Joke

Rating: Null/10 (6 March 2014)

Until Ted collapses at the end, with a generic ETish tragedy-turned-victory jerking of tears, I was laughing, sometimes so hard I regretted eating at Taco Time.
Yet, since I have only seen two or three episodes of Family Guy, and I'm enjoying the maturity of my mid-fifties, I got the distinct feeling that there was an inside joke in Ted, or my age precluded me from seeing the movie as an joke to be appreciated by younger folks.
Anyway/either way, the movie is crude and stupid and pretty darned delightful, with Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, and Seth McFarlane having a grand old time on screen.
I saw Ted with my wife, and I must be getting old because there were times I was so embarrassed from the crude humor I actually apologized to her.
Then I saw her laughing hard, too, and I knew I didn't have to apologize.
Maybe that's what makes Ted work--it's unapologetic in its crudity, its attention to its demographic. I saw The Rocky Horror Picture Show back in the early 80s, and I didn't get the cultish devotion that the movie generated. I did recognize that I couldn't recognize what was going on then. I do recognize that Ted's audience is about 30 years younger than me.
Luckily, I'm smart enough to see what I know I'm not seeing.
That's why I recommend this hilarious vulgarity.