Review: Ted

**GregMO ROberts** · 06-29-2012, 06:00 PM

Writer/director Seth McFarlane jumps from animated television (Family Guy, American Dad!) to big screen comedy with Ted, a new film about a childhood wish to bring a Teddy Bear to life. The film stars Mark Wahlberg as John Bennett, a 30+-year-old who made a childhood wish for a special friend and had his dream come true when his teddy bear named Ted (voiced by Seth McFarlane) comes to life. John and Ted grew up together and their friendship consisted of parties, drinking, drugs and watching as much 1980’s television and movies as possible.

It might sound like the perfect friendship, but John has been romantically linked to Lori (Mila Kunis) for four years and the focus of attention that John gives Ted over Lori puts a strain on the human to human relationship. This will eventually put John in a position of separating his reliance on Ted, and with comic mastermind McFarlane behind the screenplay, you can bet that high and low brow comedy will undoubtedly ensue.

Ted is rated R and is filled with enough profanities and sex related jokes to fill a two-hour Family Guy special. Ted grows up to be a foul-mouthed, sexed-up teddywhore and he is the perfect complement to the nice-guy (but still foul-mouthed), simple living John who is stuck in a dead end job and sees his life as being in some form of a rut.

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