Ted 2 (2015)

I love this movie so much

Pretty Good

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

It had some big laughs in the beginning when it dealt with Ted's marriage and problems getting his wife pregnant. Then it had this weird mid-twist of him being "property" where he isn't a person and the marriage wasn't legal and he had to go to court which I thought was boring and their lawyer was inexperienced and not a very interesting character. The movie also repeated some of the laughs in the second hour of so. I find this summer to be uneven with Terminator: Genysis, Insidious: Chapter 3, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Mad Max: Fury Road and now Ted 2 being big ideas that run out after awhile. I also didn't like Spy which I thought was mostly boring with a dumb plot twist involving Jason Statham's character. Hopefully I will enjoy Inside Out and Jurassic World. I liked San Andreas, but that was just a fun summer movie. That seemed made specifically for a summer release more than most action/special effects movies. Nothing great in that one.

This could not be worse. Firstly, the 'F' word is used a zillion times in the first 5 minutes. Dirty or forceful vulgarity is so appropriate, magnificent, poignant when used sparingly and with punch at the right moment. Otherwise, i think brainless writers and compliant actors. It's not as disgusting and low life, uneducated trash talk which isn't the least bit humorous of interesting. The whole deal looked like the actors were asleep the entire show. I have no idea how they could stand doing it. I paid online and so wish i hadn't because i couldn't force myself to watch it. Making things worse was i had watched 'What We Do In The Shadows' and 'Hunt For The Wilderpeople' the night before. Taiki Waititi' stuff out of New Zealand is gut bustingly the best i've seen in decades, maybe ever. Percentage-wise, American movies, especially comedy (or even drama)are so much worse than what's coming out of New Zealand and the Scandinavian ('River', 'Lillyhammer'). In this 'Ted 2', dirty language, smut, porn references, repeatedly to 'Bl--k C---'. I forced myself to watch around 15 minutes and had to turn it off. I thought, 'Mark Wahlberg', 'The Fighter' but who is this Mark Wahlberg? On reflection, i realize 'Wahlberg' does mostly stuff that's below par and produces the same. In 'The Fighter' his co-star Christian Bale does 'wow' stuff. There aren't words strong enough to say how bad this flick is. And, watching Taiki Waititi's stuff the night before made 'Ted 2' all the much worse. No, American comedy comes close to what's coming out elsewhere. I don't know if it's the Facebook generation which has made Americans unable to communicate seeping into everything, or what, but yuk. Like 'La La Land' which i thought was bad compared to Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor and Sid Charise. And, Red Buttons, Shecky Green, Red Skelton, Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, Ma and Pa Kettle, Abbot and Costello, Dick Van Dyke, Steve Allen, Sid Ceasar, Jack Benny, George Burns and Gracey Allen, Jonathan Winters (Robin Williams was the only modern day comic to grave or era), Art Carney, Jackie Gleason, Richard Pryor, Red Fox, Moms Mabley, Eddie Murphy, Bill Cosbie, Flip Wilson. come to think of it we do have many black comedians today and some white dudes. Not a good show.

After the good box-office performance of "Ted", this sequel was already predictable. It is especially recommended to those who liked the first film and especially advised against all people whose good sense and good taste prevented them from properly enjoying it. The film brings nothing new, just continuing the story of the obscene and rude teddy bear that shone in the initial film. Unfortunately, the manners and behavior of the creature have in no way improved, continuing to be the perfect mirror of a generation of teenagers with no prospects of life, no education, no manners and obsessed with everything that has to do with sex, alcohol or induce hallucinogenic states. The film is supposed to be a comedy but, viewed from this perspective, it takes on tragic and deeply unhappy contours. But I'm not surprised. I was not expecting Seth MacFarlane, a man who likes to make movies and serials with offensive and provocative humor, had suddenly turned into an Amish or something like that. But I remain in doubt whether the art of cinema needed another junk-film for its vast collection. In any case, the film has an advantage (the only one): as a social critic, it allows us all to think whether we want to be equal or better than that bear, and allows me (and others like me) to write texts like this.

There is no masterpiece here folks, this isn't Green Mile, it's a movie about a drug using teddy bear. I always rank comedy films differently than any other movie because to me all that matters is the laughs. This movie packs plenty of chuckles as you follow the life of Ted, a peter griffin sounding bong smoking Teddy Bear. If there was one major fault of the first Ted, it was that they made an attempt to make it a "good" movie. What started of as hilarious turned into Hancock and got mildly depressing, but this time around they nail it. The movie starts dumb, stays dumb, and ends dumb, all while making me laugh to the point of tears. This is why I view this film as much better than the first one, if you're in the mood to laugh and you enjoy Family Guy type humor than you won't be disappointed. I certainly hope they stick to this formula and we get to see more shenanigans from the worlds most vulgar teddy bear. (PS. Morgan Freeman is in it if you weren't already convinced)