Seth MacFarlane's Ted - Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, A Teddy Bear

[Stig]

[Greeny]

I just got back from seeing this and it's actually a lot funnier than I had been expecting. It's very American in it's humour with some references to Americans/American things going completely over everyones head plus, along the same vein, there are a lot of race jokes. Still, I was pleasently suprised with both how funny it was and how full it is with references to and parts from

Flash Gordon.

Also Mila Kunis.

[DarhkFox]

looking forward to seeing this later!!

[JohnC]

This turned out better than expected. Glad I didn't even read this thread so things like

Patrick Stewart and Sam Jones

came as a surprise. And they seemed like they had fun with their parts.

I noticed Marky had a phone conversation while holding his phone upside down too...

Had a look at Sam Jones IMDB. He's done more work than I thought, though mostly stuff I've not heard of and appearances in an episode or two of TV shows. But he was also The Highwayman! I liked that when it was on and never realised he was Flash Gordon.

[Steve McQueef]

Just back from seeing it. 20 minutes too long and with a join-the-dots attempt at 'plot', but...

Flash Fucking Gordon.

I almost needed oxygen, I was laughing that hard, during that entire party sequence.

There was some guy that was still laughing, 5 minutes later. This in turn, had the audience laughing at him.

Great fun.

[Down by Law]

The apartment party is worth the price of admission alone, so many lols

MING!

[DarhkFox]

i pretty much liked it, but i thought it would be funnier. It also maybe seemed a little longer than it should have been but maybe thats because we choose to go to the local cinema with shitty seats which are uncomfortable as hell.

Also, I kinda wished Ted had a different voice to peter griffin.

[Fry Crayola]

He does, doesn't he?

He has Brian Griffin's voice (which is basically Seth McFarlane's own).

[JohnC]

They even pointed it out in the movie.

[DarhkFox]

He does, doesn't he?

He has Brian Griffin's voice (which is basically Seth McFarlane's own).

no its peter griffins voice, and yeah he mentions it in the movie too.

[Majora]

Hmmm. I thought the only remarkable thing about it was how anyone involved thought there was over 2 hours worth of material there. It would have benefitted greatly from being cut to about 90 minutes without losing anything.

It was ok. It was intermittently and mildly amusing. A few trademark MacFarlene pop-culture 'parodies' which means they were nothing of the sort and just characters inserted into recreations of scenes with no actual attempt at parody. The plot was slight and predictable and I felt the movie sagged in the final third when it became bogged down in attempting to resolve it. I've seen much worse Hollywood comedies but I have no desire to sit through it a second time.

[Glasgowchivas]

But the dancing! And Flash Gordon! And the bear on slut sex! Ach! You're dead inside man.

[Jimmyzilla]

I think a couple of the people I saw it with didn't enjoy it as much because of all of the 80's pop culture references, bit of a shame but I thought it was great.

I just can't believe how many people haven't seen Airplane though. Parody of Saturday Night Fever? Fuck off!

[SweatyTravolta]

Hmmm. I thought the only remarkable thing about it was how anyone involved thought there was over 2 hours worth of material there. It would have benefitted greatly from being cut to about 90 minutes without losing anything.

It was ok. It was intermittently and mildly amusing. A few trademark MacFarlene pop-culture 'parodies' which means they were nothing of the sort and just characters inserted into recreations of scenes with no actual attempt at parody. The plot was slight and predictable and I felt the movie sagged in the final third when it became bogged down in attempting to resolve it. I've seen much worse Hollywood comedies but I have no desire to sit through it a second time.

Over two hours? It was an hour and fourty six minutes according to IMDB. Still felt too long though.

I'm with you with everything else though. Unfortunately it suffers from all the same problems that Family Guy does but exacerbated due to the running length. I did think it had enough funny moments to make it worth a watch; perhaps not at the cinema though, what with the price of tickets these days.

The most shocking thing to me was how well the fight scene was filmed. A lot of film makers could learn a lot from that. So brutal, it reminded me of Haywire.

[CactuarBill]

I loved this, funny with a lot of heart. The party scene is the highlight of the film, doesn't get as funny as that from then on which is a shame.

[Fry Crayola]

no its peter griffins voice, and yeah he mentions it in the movie too.

On further analysis, it appears so. It's a little deeper, but more Peter than Brian in terms of mannerisms and so forth.

[Roboplegic Wrongcock]

This was a real child of the 80's film. I would imagine a lot of the jokes went right over the audiences heads.

Loved Sam Jones appearance. Such an awesome voice. And his hair is still looking good.

[misterSquare]

I expected to like this a lot more than I did - seemed to be getting loads of really positive feedback from Facebook folk.

Its not a terrible film by any means, but I found it surprisingly lacking in funny moments. The latter half of the party scene, the cutaway to

Mila cleaning up the shit

and the name-guessing bit from the trailer are pretty much the only bits that I found properly amusing. Spread over the full running length, it just made the whole thing feel a bit flat.

[polygon_monkey]

Yeah, I wasn't really feeling it. Only laughed a few times through out the film.

[Smoothy]

Watched this on Saturday and thought "this is a lot like Family Guy". So guess what was the first thing I saw when I clicked on the 2nd page of this thread - Stigweard's post!

Good film.

[Delargey]

I really enjoyed this. I like family guy though, but I thought it was funny and heartwarming.

[xtremeboat]

I thought this was absolutely shit! Punchline, cutaway, groan, repeat

[Sidewaysbob]

Yeah but a teddy bear fighting a man in a motel room !!! i almost laughed up a lung when he started whipping Wahlberg with the Tv ariel.

that and Ted trying not to get a job at the supermarket.

brilliant

[DarhkFox]

Yeah but a teddy bear fighting a man in a motel room !!! i almost laughed up a lung when he started whipping Wahlberg with the Tv ariel.

that and Ted trying not to get a job at the supermarket.

brilliant

That fight was soooo..

[Fury4k]

.

[:mediadavid:]

I thought this was surprisingly great. I was expecting it to be full of taken-too-far family guy jokes, but while it was that sort of humour it mostly kept it on the right side of pleasant. And it was surprisingly sweet. In some ways it could almost have been a sequal to an 80s kids movie.

[Art Vandelay]

It's essentially a feature-length Family Guy episode with everything that would entail. Totally scattergun and a complete mess with enough funny bits in amongst the unfunny bits to keep you engaged. Mila Kunis does a sterling job of holding your attention when things get flabby. She is just an absolute delight.

[deerokus]

I thought this was poor. Admittedly I am not much of a fan of Family Guy, but I was optimistic for this. Wahlberg's character is such an utterly annoying self-destructive, self-absorbed manchild shitebag that I found it impossible to empathise or sympathise with him - which would have been fine if the film was about lots of horrible things happening to him. Instead a completely implausible romantic plot takes centre stage. It's mad that it seems that we're supposed to like this guy, and hope pretty, successful Mila gives him eleventy million chances to 'prove himself'. It's quite sexist in that respect, where there's a dehumanised, phsyically perfect woman who has no real personality of her own, whose life and entire existence is constructed around a completely pathetic guy (men are just about all she or any woman talks about in the film, even at her work), portrayed as unpleasant, naggy and overly-emotional because she doesn't like him

sneaking out of his date with her to go to another party to snort cocaine with his idiot pal. Which Wahlberg's character then blames on everyone except himself!

. It's... odd.

Really, much like some of Luc Besson's films, it reveals a really fucked up attitude to women. Probeater could have written it.

At least Mila Kunis could have

dumped that loser and shagged her boss.

None of those things would have mattered too much if it was funny enough, but there are actually very long parts of the film that don't even seem to be attempting to be comical, they're pure romantic drama with maybe the odd cutaway nonsequitur 'gag'. The actual comedy varies from quite funny to eye-rollingly stupid, though it's all of the same 'hey that's kind of strange' style as Family Guy.

Also, lots of really unfunny, 1950s racist 'humour'.

LOL AN ANGRY CHINESE GUY WHO HAS A FUNNY ACCENT. MUSLIMS AND INDIANS ARE LIKE THE SAME THING, RIGHT? 9/11 LOLS.

That kind of humour can be good when done well, as in something like Borat... it's not done well here.

Finally, there were bits and pieces of incomplete plots that went nowhere, and there was no character development at all, which left the whole thing feeling unsatisfying. I probably laughed enough times to not hate the film, but it really irritated me overall.

(And why are people negging people who don't like it? That's... laughably childish).

[Made of Ghosts]

Awful, lazy subpar romcom plot and I don't think I laughed once. Fat joke, 80s pop culture reference, fart joke, someone getting punched... At least Family Guy is surprising sometimes.

[Oh Danny Boy]

for the haters; If you love family guy you'll love this movie, if you hate family guy you'll hate this movie. simple