'Ted' movie review

This is just a teensy bit late, but I just saw one of the most succesful movies of the year and it would be weird  if I woudn't review it. So Ted probably doesn't need extra introduction: A little boy, named John with no friends wishes for his Christmas gift teddy bear to come to life and that really happens. The bear becomes his best friend, even in the next almost 30 years, as the little boy, (now Mark Wahlberg) still hangs out with him, even tough the bear also kinda grew up, as we all saw in the trailers and stuff like that (one of the posters is Ted and John urinating on the street, the other one Ted holding a sign with the R rating and all that MPAA crap on it), so we knew what movie we'll be watching. But things get complicated, when John's girlfriend Lori (Mila Kunis) wants a little bit less teddy bears in his life.

So the director of this movie is Seth MacFarlane, one of the most succesful TV-producers in the world, mostly cooperating on many cartoon series, but most known as the creator of Family Guy. I hope you know what that is, but in short: a very funny and harsh cartoon for adults. Now I only watched a few episodes of Family Guy and saw a few clips and there were pretty funny, but I'm not exactly a fan, since the show insulted a lot of stuff I like (what probably every human alive could say), but I knew what kind of humor would be in this movie. So yeah, it's not really for everyone. If you don't mind cussing every half of a sentence and a teddy bear having sex and getting high, you'll be okay.

The main question that many people asked themselves, before watching the movie is: Is it funny? And the answer is yes, it's VERY funny. That is the answer pretty much 80 % of the critics and masses, agreed to. The humor is mostly crude and harsh, filled with cussing, sex and pot jokes, but also has quite a few pop culture references and other types of humor. But it's all very funny. Of course, it's rated R, but I think the target audience is 14 - 25, so yeah. But anyways, as I've said, most critics agreed that it's funny, but they tought it was predictable and that you know, that the director is used to short stuff, as the movie is more of a collection of very funny scenes, weirdly put together.

I behalfly agree with that. Sure, the movie has a predictable ending and is no revolutionary, but Mark Wahlberg is pretty good as childish John and there's also a funny subplot, which wasn't revealed or mentioned in the trailers (and am I not going to reveal either), but I think it nicely connects to the main plot and all that stuff, so it all works out at the end. I also like how Lori puts the ultimat on her or Ted and naturally everyone would say Mila Kunis, but they succesfully made Ted one of those likeable characters, which you don't exactly want to hang out in real life, but still think he's insanely cool (or that he's got swag, depends on how much Ed Hardy stuff you own). So in conclusion, Ted might not be an excellent comedy with deep characters, an unpredictable story and Oscar-nomination-worthy acting, but nobody really expected that. We expected an excellent comedy in terms of laughter from the audience, and that is exactly what we got. 

Total rating: 7 / 10