Wahlberg and Kunis are Good

Rating: 7/10 (17 November 2012)

Ted is a teddy bear, given to a lonely eight year old boy for Christmas, who wishes for the stuffed animal to be real. Well, his wish comes true when Ted begins to have human like conversations with the kid. Word spreads and Ted becomes famous. Fame is fleeting, and as we flash forward to the now thirty five year old John Bennett, who has remained best friends with the pot smoking, foul mouthed bear, the film becomes a fairly routine romantic comedy. Mila Kunis is Lori, John's girlfriend of four years, who has grown tired of John and Ted's sophomoric and immature antics. She demands that he drop the sarcastic childhood toy and commit to her fully. The predictable breakup occurs, and a few mildly amusing scenes are used as filler, including a funny one with the actor Sam Jones from the campy "Flash Gordon" movie from yesteryear. Mark Wahlberg is easy going and he has good chemistry with Kunis on screen. The script is decent, but nothing new or different, other than the concept of a talking teddy bear. I give it a 7/10.