Great bathroom humor with some unexpected extras

Rating: 8/10 (8 July 2015)

The most surprising thing about "Ted" is that it features an actual story rather than dragging itself from one joke to the next. It's a simple story, but it definitely has some degree of fairytale magic and leads to some genuinely touching scenes in the third act. That's something you don't really expect from Seth MacFarlane, because storytelling isn't exactly his strongest point. I was expecting this to be just as filled with non-sequiturs as "Family Guy", and I would have been fine with that. But all of a sudden MacFarlane understands how to write interesting characters you can side with, and that's a nice plus. The most important thing is the humor though, and "Ted" has plenty of laughs. The voice acting is kinda lazy because Ted sounds exactly like Peter Griffin, but the screenplay is good enough to make you forget about that. Not bad for a debut film.