Every home should have one...

Rating: 10/10 (12 September 2012)

"Ted" is a film that's filled with ribaldry, and gloriously un-PC pop- culture references... It's also handy that the marketing never made it out to be anything other than 'dumb'... If you were a dissatisfied audience member who was expecting a movie starring a talking teddy bear to be deep, then I don't know what to tell you.
I don't think it's a big surprise that people who are huge fans of Family Guy are more likely to enjoy this than those who aren't. Most of Family Guy's jokes are lazy too... but in general they're funny anyway because they're semi-topical and delivered well.
Not all humour has to be clever in order to amuse.
Maybe there were a few 'Epic Movie' type jokes where a random reference is thrown in for no bigger reason than a surprise laugh, but they were carried off with a lot more style and context than Friedberg & Seltzer manage.
Not every joke can be right on target, but I thought that there were more hits than misses, and you soon forget the bad ones if you're laughing at the shots that struck home.
A couple of the movie references did annoy me though, being almost shot for shot, and really unimaginative... There was no need to spell out the second "Aliens" joke, for example - it would have been far funnier for a savvy audience to need to work it out by themselves... but I laughed long and loud at other parts of the movie, so I'm prepared to forgive the odd moment that fell flat. They can't all be winners.
Overall it's a fun time at the movies, provided you have an inkling that Macfarlane's style of humour is your cup of tea.