Ted 2
Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.
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- Cast:
- Mark Wahlberg , Seth MacFarlane , Amanda Seyfried , Jessica Barth , Giovanni Ribisi , Morgan Freeman , Sam J. Jones
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Fantastic!
Best movie ever!
It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.
It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
I have to confess that while watching Ted 2 I laughed out loud - something I rarely do when watching a film - more often than I did during Ted 1, or any other film I can remember for many years. The dialogue is fast and snappy and although much of it doesn't hit the mark, when it does, it is hilarious.Yes, the characters do things no-one would do in real life, but then in real life no-one would have a talking teddy bear. However, I did find the relentless cruelty and bullying by the gay guys from Star Trek a little over the top and unnecessary. Likewise the almost constant drug-taking. It seems almost expected these days that any Hollywood film will have most of the main characters constantly taking drugs, and I don't really know why no-one has suggested that this might not actually be helping young people wean themselves away from drugs - it really isn't helping society. "Oh look, all the people we look up to and who earn lots of money are spending almost every day drugged out of their minds yet they seem to function perfectly well. Can't be anything wrong with it then!" I'll bet the drug barons are rubbing their hands with glee every time a Hollywood film rolls off the presses these days and yet more characters are seen snorting lines of cocaine as though it is the most normal thing in the world. By all means have Ted and John smoking weed now and again, but it's all they seem to talk about, and pretty much every time they stood still out came the apparatus for another hit. Too much! They were perfectly funny when they weren't smoking, they didn't need the drugs.Certainly didn't need all the swearing either - completely unnecessary and the sign of lazy writing. I don't know why writers think by adding the f-word into sentences where there is absolutely no need for it eg 'How about we get some effing breakfast' makes it any more entertaining to listen to. People don't all talk like that, it just makes the film less realistic and frankly depressing.The more films keep promoting incessant swearing and drugs, the more people will start to think it is acceptable. It isn't! Stop it!!Apart from that, I really enjoyed this film. It didn't drag despite being quite long, and although some scenes were a bit silly, there were not too many massive plot holes or daft character behaviours and the majority of it worked.
Ted 2 is a sequel (not the first plot) where we see the unique puppet-human duo on another drama sequence creating problems, well this time they are 'encountering' unexpected problems (Can't spoil any) the humor is finer in this one, I liked this plot even more, the same cast is back, except for the black-haired girl who is unreasonably absent in this one (I disliked this) and was somehow replaced by a blonde girl (Samantha) just for the sake of having another love story take place, this very aspect is both good and bad. The ending of this one is much better, and I like the idea this is no longer about some puppet-abductor fools who try over and over to steal Ted (To me that is ludicrous), it's about some real problem, law problem, and I loved how it all ended.7.5/10 , Better than Ted 1, I would watch this one again !
Loved Ted 1, expected Ted 2 to be OK but am sad to report its plain bad. Ted 1 did not have a strong plot, but it was consistently outrageous and laugh-out-loud funny. The gags in Ted 2 are not even loosely connected. The appearance of big name celebrities such as Jay Leno, Liam Neson, Morgan Freeman etc is mostly distracting. Not being American, I guess some references are lost on me. I found the Liam Neson cameo in Life's Too Short to be hilarious. Here, it's funny but forgettable. I'm glad to see Wallenberg and Kunis separated, but don't care for his new romance. The Giovanni Ribisi subplot was the low point of Ted 1. Why his character reappears in Ted 2 is beyond me (and how did Ribisi track the trio from Boston to NY?). The finale at comic con sucks. The nerd bashing by Patrick Warburton (who is otherwise good) is not entertaining. There are still a number of laughs. My favourite scenes were at the sperm bank and Ted driving. Memorable, funny, deeply uncomfortable. Watch them on YouTube, but skip the full length feature.
Now, I will admit that I enjoyed the absurdity of the first movie and found the first movie to be very funny and enjoyable. So of course I was expecting at least the same level from the sequel.But it went as most sequel do, the wrong way. "Ted 2" turned out to be nothing more than a mediocre attempt to cash in on the success of the first movie. It was lacking all the comedy and funny situations as were present in the first movie. It was a bad decision to opt for a more serious approach for the sequel, because it just didn't pan out and it failed to work in any way.It just got tiring to watch Ted and his girlfriend trying to fight for their right to have a baby, and it just sidetracked the movie entirely. It took a heavy toll on the comedy that could have been there, and they had a lot of chances to go for something hilarious."Ted 2" suffered from having a what seemed to be hastily written storyline which was under duress from a deadline. And whatever comedy was written into the movie, just was way under the standards set in the first movie. The dialogue, satire and jokes in part two were not even half as in-your-face as in the first movie.And it didn't really help much that it seemed like Mark Wahlberg sort of didn't want to be present for the filming of the movie. His commitment and enthusiasm from the first movie was nowhere to be seen in this sequel.Sure there were a couple of laughs here and there, but "Ted 2" was nowhere near its predecessor in any way. And while you can return to watch the "Ted" movie again and again, that proves not to be the case with the sequel. This is a watch once and let it fade into sweet oblivion situation.The only thing that had me amused and entertained was the entire scene taking place at the convention. That was actually the high point of the entire movie.It has been seen, and I can check it off the to-watch-list, and I can't claim to be impressed in any way by "Ted 2".