Ted 2

2015

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 44% · 207 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 50% · 50K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 239743 239.7K

Plot summary

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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Tara Strong as Ted Toy
Liam Neeson as Customer
Morgan Freeman as Patrick Meighan
Amanda Seyfried as Samantha
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by IonicBreezeMachine 5 / 10

Has most of the same strengths and weakness as the first film, but nowhas the issues that plague most comedy sequels

Living teddy bear, Ted (Seth MacFarlane) has finally married his girlfriend Tami-Lynn McCafferty (Jessica Barth) with his friend John Bennett (Mark Wahlberg) as his best man having been divorced from Lori for six months. About a year after the wedding Tami-Lynn and Ted start experiencing marital difficulties and on the advice of a friend Ted floats the idea of adopting a child with Tami-Lynn who's receptive to the idea. After learning Tami-Lynn is infertile due to years of drug use, the two decide to go the adoption route which not only fails, but leads to several chain reactions in Ted's life as he's technically "property" and not a person according to the state. The two enlist the help of a local law firm and are given recent Law School grad Samantha Jackson (Amanda Seyfried) who hits it off with John. Meanwhile, Ted's stalker Donny (Giovanni Ribisi) is now working at Hasbro as a janitor and convinces Hasbro's CEO Tom Jessup (John Carroll Lynch) to bank roll the opposition to Ted's case in the hopes of making Ted's rights forfeit and mass producing duplicates so Donny can finally have one of his own.

2012's Ted was indisputably the year's biggest comedy release of that year making $550 million against a $65 million budget and allowing writer director Seth MacFarlane to stretch his success beyond his prime time animated shows like Family Guy and American Dad to other areas including his revival of Cosmos and eventually his Star Trek homage The Orville. With Ted being a success, it was pretty much a given that there'd be a sequel which MacFarlane commenced following the disappointing returns on his western comedy A Million Ways to Die in the West. Initially written as a road trip comedy where in Ted and John would smuggle a load of marijuana across the United States, the premise was scrapped early on due to similarities with the 2013 comedy We're the Millers. Eventually the focus shifted to one of Ted proving himself as a person under the eyes of the law, necessitating the inclusion of a lawyer character and writing out Mila Kunis' character Lori from the last movie. When the movie was released in June 2015, its grosses fell short of its processor making $120 million less domestically at $81 million but thanks to the international market it did eventually manage to get to $216 million worldwide. MacFarlane hasn't directed another film since Ted 2 but did direct some episodes of The Orville that are reasonably well regarded so there hasn't been any adverse fallout from its underperformance. The movie itself, it's basically just more of the same minus the freshness and the recurring issues that plague most comedy sequels.

Ted 2 begins fairly okay within the first 20 minutes as it opens with a humorous wedding for Ted and Tami-Lynn and transitions into a Busby Berkeley-esque musical number that serves as out opening credits. But then we have the other things, like John now divorced from Lori effectively undoing any of his character development and resetting him to square one (never a good sign for a comedy sequel). On top of the issues with sequelitis we also have many sequences that are lifted wholesale from episodes of Family Guy such as the sperm spilling scene from the episode Sibling Rivalry and even the main plot follows many of the major beats of the series seventh episode Brian: Portrait of a Dog where in a talking dog fought a legal battle for his civil rights. And when it's not copying scenes from Family Guy, it's copying scenes from other comedies like the "Mess Around" driving sequence from Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.

I know Family Guy has a history of wholesale lifting sequences, dialogue, and set pieces from other TV shows and movies and just placing their own characters in it, and considering it's a 22 minute TV episode with commercials it is what it is. But a movie doesn't follow the same rules as TV and when you recycle jokes your and setups your audience saw on TV for free and now make them pay theater prices to see them on the big screen it shows a remarkable amount of contempt for your audience. MacFarlane isn't the only one guilty of this either, because South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker tried to pull the same thing with their movie Team America: World Police that featured a number of jokes regurgitated from their TV show, and it was stupid there too.

That's not to say there aren't some jokes that work as some of the cameos are occasionally funny and MacFarlane and Wahlberg still have good chemistry, but for every moment that works there's others that just don't. The movie brings back Giovani Ribisi's Donny again and like the last movie he's not funny and is just odd and off-putting but some of the scenes he shared with John Carroll Lynch were mildly amusing, Amanda Seyfried's Sam Jackson (guess which joke they make) is just kind of there, and a lengthy sequence in Comic-Con only served to remind me how much better this was done when Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Seth Rogen did it in Paul.

Ted 2 feels like an obligation sequel. It's cobbled together from leftover parts of both the first movie and MacFarlane's TV shows while still having the same problems with dated reference humor that has made the film age poorly. I say this as someone who likes MacFarlane's work, he can do better than this.

Reviewed by eddie_baggins 6 / 10

Laughs can still be found in this overlong follow up

His certainly not a cuddly teddy that's for all but after one seriously successful first outing in 2012 it was always a given that everyone's (the only one?) favourite foul mouthed yet somehow endearing talking bear was going to make it back to a big screen close by and with that we now have Ted 2.

After his biggest misfire yet in the potentially hilarious yet wrongly skewed A Million Ways to Die in the West (of which an alumni of makes a great cameo in this film), Seth MacFarlane finds himself back on familiar ground, which is in both a material sense, a comedic sense and also a still unfortunately self-indulgent directional sense that see's MacFarlane struggle to rid his 2 hour plus film of jokes that don't work and plot lines that feel like nothing more than time fillers. If there was ever a director in need of someone to cull his films of material that neither enhance or contribute to the tale at hand it's MacFarlane but to say the man doesn't deliver some comedic gold in this enjoyable romp would be a lie.

While you'll often find yourself ashamed at what brings forth fits of laughter here, MacFarlane as he is well known to do, mixes juvenile humour with far more wide reaching topical funnies, from everything from civil rights through to his usual pop culture insights, nothing is out of his reach. Within the films bloated runtime there are moments of pure gold that make Ted 2 succeed to the level it does, much like its predecessor and with the continued chemistry shared between Whalberg's well-meaning yet daft John and the MacFarlane voiced Ted Clubber-Lang (yes Ted now has a last name) at the same high levels the films many sins can be forgiven thanks to their often game saving banters. The addition of Amanda Seyfried is also a bonus to the film, her willingness to poke fun at herself a particular highlight.

The narrative of Ted 2 is anything but fantastic and the reappearance of Giovani Ribisi's teddy obsessed villain Donny is almost a movie breaker but Ted 2 has enough wit and chemistry to save itself from all the low denominator humour and awkwardly edited grove that surrounds it and in the end provides some very decent comedic entertainment. In saying this it may be time for all involved to move onto other things with MacFarlane in particular in need of something a little meatier than he has been dishing up over the last few years.

3 Tom Brady home invasions out of 5

Reviewed by stephenchase-63504 10 / 10

The greatest R-rated sequel ever!!

Tom Brady, for life!

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