The thing about Ted is that as soon as that teddy bear opens his mouth the first thought that comes into my mind is Peter Griffin, which is not surprising considering MacFarlane does the voices for both characters. Anyway, since I quite enjoyed the first movie when I discovered that he had made a sequel I knew that it was one of those films that was going to give me some good laughs, and I must say that it certainly didn't disappoint. Okay, it is basically more of the same, but then sometimes doing what one does best is the only way to go, and having been a fan of Family Guy, I pretty much knew what I was going to expect.
Once again we have a flow of big name stars making appearances, including Liam Neeson in his Taken role coming into the grocery store to buy a packet of children's cereal, but making sure nobody actually knows that he is buying it. While I thought that was quite amusing the one scene that simply sticks in my mind was when they went into the lawyer's office and the lawyer pulls out a bong and starts smoking it, puts it down and says 'I hope you don't mind'. That was so absurd that I simply cannot believe it ever happening, but the fact that it did makes me give this movie the stars that it deserves. Anyway, I feel that I might end up giving away too many of the jokes, so I will simply say 'help me home', and if you are wondering what I mean by that, then go an see the movie and you will understand.
Anyway, Ted gets married, but it turns out that after about six months (I believe) they are starting to have problems, so it is suggested that they have a child. Unfortunately Ted just doesn't have the equipment, and his wife, having been a coke fiend, can't have children, so they decide to adopt. Unfortunately the state decides that Ted isn't actually a human, he is property, so he can't adopt, which results in him being stripped of all of his rights, which is why he lands up in a lawyers office – he wants his rights back and wants to be considered a sentient human like everybody else.
Anyway, I don't really want to go much deeper than that because while there is the idea about being considered a human, and the still simmering issue of race in America, this film is basically all about having a laugh at a couple of really obnoxious and dope smoking losers (though I must admit that Whalberg does a brilliant job in this film – as he did in the last; I still can't believe that this was the guy who was the lead singer of Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch). Along with the laughs the film does force you to think about the issue of race and the fact that not too long ago the same argument was being made about the status of the African American.
Once again we have a flow of big name stars making appearances, including Liam Neeson in his Taken role coming into the grocery store to buy a packet of children's cereal, but making sure nobody actually knows that he is buying it. While I thought that was quite amusing the one scene that simply sticks in my mind was when they went into the lawyer's office and the lawyer pulls out a bong and starts smoking it, puts it down and says 'I hope you don't mind'. That was so absurd that I simply cannot believe it ever happening, but the fact that it did makes me give this movie the stars that it deserves. Anyway, I feel that I might end up giving away too many of the jokes, so I will simply say 'help me home', and if you are wondering what I mean by that, then go an see the movie and you will understand.
Anyway, Ted gets married, but it turns out that after about six months (I believe) they are starting to have problems, so it is suggested that they have a child. Unfortunately Ted just doesn't have the equipment, and his wife, having been a coke fiend, can't have children, so they decide to adopt. Unfortunately the state decides that Ted isn't actually a human, he is property, so he can't adopt, which results in him being stripped of all of his rights, which is why he lands up in a lawyers office – he wants his rights back and wants to be considered a sentient human like everybody else.
Anyway, I don't really want to go much deeper than that because while there is the idea about being considered a human, and the still simmering issue of race in America, this film is basically all about having a laugh at a couple of really obnoxious and dope smoking losers (though I must admit that Whalberg does a brilliant job in this film – as he did in the last; I still can't believe that this was the guy who was the lead singer of Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch). Along with the laughs the film does force you to think about the issue of race and the fact that not too long ago the same argument was being made about the status of the African American.