What happened?

Rating: 2/10 (15 December 2012)

What the hell happened to the sharp, topical, intelligent, genre-bashing and generally hilarious humour we have come to expect from Renaissance Man (and part-time crooner of Broadway show tunes) Seth MacFarlane? Instead we get a big budget, low-intelligence, loud, crass, insulting mess of a film. Mark Wahlberg was horribly miscast, and slept-walked through the entire thing, usually wearing a tight t-shirt that showed off his big biceps. Mila Kunis was perky, yet p*ssed-off throughout, though she gets one star for her unprecedented use of the C word, but that can hardly be seen as a redeeming factor, in the grand scheme of things. And the main protagonist, Ted, had a very short humour shelf-life. I would probably had a more enriching experience sitting though an episode of The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin, which incidentally (and perhaps inevitably) gets quoted by Ted in this big fat waste-of-blood-and-organs of a film.