Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!
SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen
ScoobyMint Disappointment for a huge fan!
Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
MJB784 It had some big laughs in the beginning when it dealt with Ted's marriage and problems getting his wife pregnant. Then it had this weird mid-twist of him being "property" where he isn't a person and the marriage wasn't legal and he had to go to court which I thought was boring and their lawyer was inexperienced and not a very interesting character. The movie also repeated some of the laughs in the second hour of so. I find this summer to be uneven with Terminator: Genysis, Insidious: Chapter 3, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Mad Max: Fury Road and now Ted 2 being big ideas that run out after awhile. I also didn't like Spy which I thought was mostly boring with a dumb plot twist involving Jason Statham's character. Hopefully I will enjoy Inside Out and Jurassic World. I liked San Andreas, but that was just a fun summer movie. That seemed made specifically for a summer release more than most action/special effects movies. Nothing great in that one.
megaruda It might fool ignorant people but the film is not relevant, it tries wayyy too hard to be cool and it ends up being one of the fakest film scripts and characters I have seen in a long time, makes the kardashians feel real, anycow, the film has no soul but tries hard and tells it in your face that it has, so there is no subtext, and the whole time they are telling you what the themes are with dialogues and it becomes simply boring, it is one of the most boring films on earth, the jokes are fine tho, it should of been a bunch of sketches or even a t.v. show, but on film it simply didnt work, the plot is all over the place if theres any, the antagonist is there for like 3 minutes in total, it just did not deserve a film, the story was too thin and not worth telling. The first one had something to say, this one should of been a blog article.
brando647 I am an unabashed Seth MacFarlane fan. I loved the first TED in 2012 and I even, for whatever reason, enjoyed A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST way more than most people would think acceptable. But that doesn't stop me from recognizing that maybe, just maybe, TED 2 never needed to happen. And when I discovered it was happening, I'd hoped MacFarlane and his writing team would come up with a fun new reason to re the adventures of John Bennett (Mark Wahlberg) and his plus pal Ted (voiced by MacFarlane). It certainly appears so at first but then it isn't long before it devolves into rehashed elements from the first film. We re them as Ted and his girlfriend Tami-Lynn (Jessica Barth) are tying the knot in a ceremony overseen, of course, by Flash Gordon himself, Sam Jones. We flash forward a year and see that married life isn't going so well for the lovebirds, and Ted is given the idea that having a child will rejuvenate their marriage. Seeing as how he's a stuffed bear, the usual means of procreation are out of the question and, after a series of misadventures, he and Tami-Lynn turn to adoption. Here's where Ted's life begins to fall apart; his adoption attempt red flags him with the government whose official stance is that Ted is not a person, but "property". TED 2 is the tale of John and Ted teaming with a young, stoned upstart lawyer (Amanda Seyfried) in an attempt to battle the court system and award Ted personhood.TED 2 has some stuff that works. I love that a portion of the film becomes a road movie with John, Ted, and Seyfried's Sam L. Jackson driving from Boston to New York to meet with a famed civil rights lawyer (Morgan Freeman) in hopes that he'll take Ted's case. That whole segment of the film works for me and I kind of wished the whole movie had been one big crazy road movie. I also enjoyed the BREAKFAST CLUB homage/montage in the library when the trio are preparing to first argue Ted's case. I loved the usual string of pop culture gags and raunchy humor we expect from MacFarlane, and I loved the chemistry between Wahlberg, Seyfriend, and Ted. Seyfried was a treat in MILLION WAYS TO DIE but MacFarlane upgrades her to co- star this time around and, as with Theron in the former movie it's great how game she is to sink to the levels of humor these movies call for. Since MacFarlane is a self- professed geek, we also get some great cameos that'll make Star Trek fans grin, especially Michael Dorn (Lieutenant Worf from "Next Generation"/"Deep Space Nine" for those not in the know) as Patrick Warburton's lover. The problem is when MacFarlane's geekiness gets a little out of hand in the final act of the film, set entirely in New York ComiCon where it's as if someone broke the valve off his pop culture love and it just starts spewing uncontrollably all over the place. It becomes a literal battle royale of beloved pop culture icons.That over-indulgence I could've forgiven if the rest of the movie hadn't tripped over itself and face-planted. I have two grievances with TED 2. The first is the rehashing of plot lines from the first TED. It's annoying enough that we have to go through an entire new romantic subplot for John and Sam (John has married and divorced Mila Kunis' Lori in the time since the last film, rendering the plot of that movie pointless) but TED 2 also brings back Donnie, as played by Giovanni Ribisi. I really liked Ribisi in the first movie. The man knows how to play awkward and creepy, and Donnie's obsessive quest to acquire Ted for his own son was both. In TED 2, Donnie now works for Hasbro and conspires with the CEO to steal Ted (who is now property, so it wouldn't be kidnapping) and cut him open to see what makes him sentient. Did we need to revisit Donnie's unhealthy obsession with stealing Ted? Couldn't we have found a new antagonist for the movie? Maybe the toy company itself with the CEO leading the charge? Again, it would've been nice to change things up a bit. My other big mark against TED 2 is how seriously it takes the human rights issue at the center of it all. We get not one, but two overly serious lawyer speeches in front of juries explaining how Ted is more "human" than toy. Guys, this is a movie where a stuffed bear tries to steal Tom Brady's semen. Keep it light. Overall, TED 2 feels aimless like it just doesn't know where it wants to focus its energy, and the constant borrowing from the first film's playbook makes me think TED 2 could've spent a little more time in the planning stages to bring us a fun new (emphasis on "new") Thunder Buddy adventure instead of what we got.
soul-l There is no masterpiece here folks, this isn't Green Mile, it's a movie about a drug using teddy bear. I always rank comedy films differently than any other movie because to me all that matters is the laughs. This movie packs plenty of chuckles as you follow the life of Ted, a peter griffin sounding bong smoking Teddy Bear. If there was one major fault of the first Ted, it was that they made an attempt to make it a "good" movie. What started of as hilarious turned into Hancock and got mildly depressing, but this time around they nail it. The movie starts dumb, stays dumb, and ends dumb, all while making me laugh to the point of tears. This is why I view this film as much better than the first one, if you're in the mood to laugh and you enjoy Family Guy type humor than you won't be disappointed. I certainly hope they stick to this formula and we get to see more shenanigans from the worlds most vulgar teddy bear. (PS. Morgan Freeman is in it if you weren't already convinced)
