Seth McFarlane is officially a comedy genius.

Rating: 10/10 (24 August 2012)

For the last few years, Seth McFarlane has graced television screens with 'Family Guy' and 'American Dad'. Two animated comedy shows that leave me laughing for 23 minutes straight with its new idea of wit, one-liners and hilarious cutaways which brilliantly reference other TV shows and movies.
So when I saw 'Ted', I had seen all the trailers and was absolutely buzzing, particularly with the all-star cast, which includes McFarlane. After laughing so hard for the next 106 minutes, it officially ranks as one of the funniest movies i have ever seen, and officially makes McFarlane a genius.
First thing that makes it great: The cast. I said it's an all-star line-up, but the cast are just so good. Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis have such good chemistry on set and looked a perfect match. McFarlane lent his terrific voice acting skills to the role of Ted, and, despite sounding a lot like Peter Griffin (which, for the record, I have no objection to), he was probably the only person who could ever make the character come alive. And his relationship with John (Wahlberg's character) is absolutely brilliant, even though it has absolutely no right to be. The supporting actors were great as well. Patrick Stewart was probably the only person who McFarlane would ever have considered giving the role of the narrator to, and his voice really adds something to the movie. I also loved the jobs Patrick Warburton and Giovanni Ribisi did, and Sam Jones as himself was just too funny!
Second thing that makes it great: It's the McFarlane Formula. He took what he mainly does on 'Family Guy' and made it into a feature-length movie. I have no idea how he makes it work, it has no right to work, but goddammit it works!! The scene where Lori asks John what he thinks his dance moves were like when they first met, the way he spoofs the infamous 'Saturday Night Fever' scene, despite the fact it's already been done in movies such as 'Airplane!', had me in hysterics for the whole thing. It was just perfect. It's weird because quite a few of his jokes centre around pop culture, and when the god awful movies of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer are released containing these jokes, they're always slated (but for good reason, they are dreadful). I guess McFarlane knows how to get things right, not make jokes drag out too much or make them repeating themselves, and the timing is key, which he always gets right.
So yeah, this movie flat out rocks, and, unless your sensitive to very vulgar language and terrorist and racist jokes, drag yourself down to the nearest theatre and watch this movie!! :)