Ted 2012

    John is eight-years-old and he doesn’t have any friends.  He receives a large teddy bear for Christmas and he makes a wish that the bear would love him forever.  Surprisingly, Ted can talk in the morning!  In the beginning, Ted had a career appearing on talk shows and other programs.  Now it’s twenty-seven years later, John has Lori, his girlfriend of four years but Ted lives with them.  John works a dead end job and Lori would like to him to separate himself more from Ted.  She feels his type of job and lack of initiative are due to the influence of Ted.

     Ted is not a good bear; he’s a very bad bear!  He swears, smokes from a bong, entertains prostitutes, throws wild parties and gets John into trouble all the time.  The rating says it all, adult humor, sexual situations, profanity, drug content.  I watched the theatrical version because I didn’t think I had the nerve for the unrated version?  3* (This movie is OK)

106 min, Comedy directed by Seth MacFarlane (also voices Ted) with Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Joel McHale, Giovanni Ribisi, Patrick Warburton.

Note:  Blockbuster 3 ½*, imdb 7.3 out of 10, 69% critic 80% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.