Ted 2 Review
RYAN: Writer, director, voice over actor, star Seth MacFarlane is back with the sequel to Ted and it’s kinda more of the same, but with Amanda Seyfried instead of Mila Kunis.
CAROLINE: Oh no, really? Or maybe that’s a good thing, considering what a hit Ted was while his cowboy movie tanked.
RYAN: Right. It’s certainly way better than A Million Ways to Die in the West. That was a debacle. I love Seth and he really has his own brand of humor – it’s non-PC, a little subversive and dirty.
CAROLINE: Yeah he is really funny and actually quite charming. He’s also a showman – he loves to sing and dance. Remember when he hosted the Oscars?
RYAN: Of course. And he brings a bit of that to this film. I wish he’d direct and star in a movie musical already. The opening credits of this film are one of the highlights. It’s like a golden era of oHollywood big musical number. I wish the whole movie was like that.
CAROLINE: Of course you do.
RYAN: It’s fun being back with Ted and Marky Mark. But LBH, let’s be honest, it’s really just like a feature length episode of TV’s Family Guy. And all of his films still feel very episodic. They are chapters strung together and Ted 2 is just as schizophrenic – it genre-hops from fairy tale to musical to rom com to drama to action to comedy. But maybe that’s Seth’s thing, you know? He can mash-up genres and we all go with it. Why squelch his creativity?
CAROLINE: That must be a rhetorical question. How’s Amanda?
RYAN: She’s fine. She and Mark have decent chemistry. And the animation is so good. It just makes me think back to Who Framed Roger Rabbit and how far we’ve come with CGI. It’s all so real now.
CAROLINE: Are there any cameos?
RYAN: A few. It’s not overdone though. There’s a section that’s courtroom drama and I that was another highlight.
CAROLINE: Sounds pretty good.
RYAN: There was a moment where they say “deja vu” and it is sort of rehashing a bit of the first film, but at least they cop to it, so I’m more inclined to give it a pass. I think they’ll have to be very creative for a Ted 3, however.
CAROLINE: We’ll have to wait and see how this one fares first.
RYAN: It’s a great R-rated comedy. It’s profane, dirty, funny, inappropriate and yet all with a good message about civil rights and humanity.
