When you watched the trailer for Ted, and you decided you'll rush to the theaters, odds are you long accepted that you're in to some shameless and mindless comic frenzy starring an offensive talking teddy bear and a pot-smoking man child (Mark Whalberg). Director Seth MacFarlane took a lot of time in creating this pic, and it's more or less paying off, displaying loads of impressive CGI, good performances and a couple of punchlines that are actually working. He also plays Ted, a teddy bear who magically came to life after an underdog 8-year old Johnny wished for it in the right timing.
27 years later, Ted still accompanies his best friend Johnny (now played by Whalberg), weed on afternoons, booze in some nights and always talking about some movie they both like. This bothers Lori (Mila Kunis), Johnny's girlfriend for four years, mainly because in all times Ted is with Johnny, his beau always end up either wasted or high. She then indirectly gives the formulaic ultimatum to Johnny: bromance or romance?
Ted is the type that fetches out a premise that is supposed to be (or typically is) softly fleshed and then does the otherwise. MacFarlane's take on the "bromance or romance" is resembling a lot of how he tackled family stuff with his animated TV series Family Guy. It actually looks a lot like it, only here we get better jokes and we don't get to see the football-headed son. He also plays the title character, Ted, in which he is terrific, a testament that his mouth effortlessly spit out punchlines that are instantly funny, two seconds after they're dropped--that's the kind of comedy I'm kind of looking for in a comedy film and those claiming to be in the genre.
He does it with the inescapable formula though, leaving us in the most familiar territory again: conventions. As consequence, Ted's narrative went a tad boring, with turns that you see coming many frames before you reach them. Thanks to the film's massively offensive punchlines that very often works and the freshness that the rude talking teddy bear brings. Whalberg is his typical self, always proving himself in the genre, in his natural Bostonian accent. Kunis is a great deal more than being sexy (without even trying) on screen.
Ted may crash on familiar landings, but it makes you high in an altitude that in certitude, you won't care of it's very small issues. A-
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