Three Reasons CBM Fans Should See TED

Typo on Patrick Stewart? Great film though, I also highly recommend it!

This movie was nothing but a string of references. If you're going to make jokes, make them your own jokes. Not recycled ones. The film was like spending hours on the internet, clicking funny memes.

Don't get me wrong, I chuckled. But my god, did it seem long.

And you should put a spoiler alert for the RR cameo. It's the best part of the movie, especially considering he doesn't even have any lines.

can't wait,this looks like it could be the funniest film of the year.

Dont forget the Flash Gordon moments lmfao

It was funny but i found it boring at times...Flash was great!

So so so so funny!

I wanna watch this but I'm gonna watch TASM first

What is so bad about makinging tasteless jokes about religion?

@NateBest - I think he meant put it because I the fact that he was in it at all is supposed to be a surprise.
He wasnt ever announced being casted in it, so him having the cameo was a fun surprise.

The whole reason that it's funny is BECAUSE it's Ryan Reynolds.

The moment would have gone unnoticed if it were just a random no-name. That's what cameos are all about. They're "out of movie" experiences. People treat the Stan Lee cameos in the Marvel films like they're spoilers, and they did the same with Bill Murray in Zombieland.

@weneedrevelation

I don't deserve comedy because I got over the teddy bear schtick in twenty minutes? This movie is by no means hilarious. Our entire audience chuckled at most the length of the movie. Two guys walked out muttering that they "thought it was supposed to be funny shit."

It was fine and for a comedy, it was amusing. But there are too many "out of place" things surrounding it. They play the teddy bear up to be a celebrity and at the beginning, everyone reacts to its appearance appropriately. Fine, I get that. It establishes itself in a universe where people react to things accordingly and believably.

But then every other supporting character is a complete, overblown hop up of crude, outlandish misplacement. The scene where they wait in the restaurant to see "who the fart hits first" and the reaction from the people at the table? ...really? People do that? It'd be fine if it wasn't already established that this is a "real world" where talking teddy bears are out of the ordinary.

And if Ted doesn't have genitals (which he is aware of in the film)...why does he enjoy sex so much?

I can't believe people are going to bitch about a movie with a talking [frick]ing teddy bear not being realistic enough. It's a comedy it's not meant to be takin seriously. What's wrong with peoples sense of humor these days. I blame Justin bieber. God dammit

@StarSpangledBruce I'm not a Seth MacFarlane fan at all, although I did enjoy his Family Guy Star Wars films, but I really enjoyed Ted. There were no political jokes, thank goodness. It was really funny and I think its worth checking out.
As for those that saw the movie and didn't think it was funny, I'm sorry but I can't help you. If this movie wasn't funny to you I feel rather bad for you.

*knew. Well, now, don't I feel foolish.

I hate family guy with a passion but I gave this movie a chance and I walked out of the theatre in tears. Ted was easily the funniest movie I've seen in a long time

I'm also not the only one who thinks so.

21 jump st was better than what i thought it would be,the dictator made me laugh as well.

i reckon ted will be the best of the bunch.

Are you looking at the material in the movie, or how the material is used?

21 Jump Street uses the same type of material as Adam Sandler's "That's My Boy" and "Ted," but all three films have different ways of presenting it.

One of the best jokes in 21JS is when they beat up the kid at the beginning and then are accused of beating him up because he's gay. It's not a gay joke, but a satirical look on how the media portrays acts of violence towards the homosexual community, purely based on the fact that they're gay. One of my gay friends saw that scene and was satisfied that someone was finally able to "get it."

I'm not saying Ted isn't funny, I'm saying that by its own standards, it could be smarter.

I guess I'm in the minority. So far this year I liked 21 Jump Street, The Dictator and That's My Boy (so underrated). 2012 has been a great year for comedies (The Watch looks friggen hilarious too). But thus far Ted is hands down the funniest thing to come out. And yes I agree, the Ryan Reynolds bit was definitely a spoiler. Folks weren't supposed to know he was in it till they saw him in the movie. The act of announcing his presence is a spoiler in and of itself.

I'm not a Family Guy fan at all, but Ted looks hilarious. May check it out (especially after reading this article).

Let us all just agree to disagree on what is considered "smart" comedy. I just really want Ted to beat Magic Mike at the Box Office. Seriously, my Facebook has been hijacked by women's status updates about Channing's body. Ugh!

Yeeeeeeeeah. To the bank. Nice.

I thought Ted was clever in a lot of ways. I liked that Ted was out in the open and that he wasn't in hiding as most films would probably have done. I liked that even something as big as a talking teddy bear, would in reality, eventually become forgotten or obscure. I thought the pop culture references were well placed (my favorite being the nod to Indiana Jones). I thought it was clever that MacFarlane used obscure or forgotten pop culture icons (Sam Jones and Tom Skerrit, for example) in the film. I thought the music (which is typical of MacFarlane's work on Family Guy) was well placed in being ironic to the vulgarity of the situation. Wahlberg's character is extremely relevant to today as there are more man-children than actual adults. Also, being irresponsible has consequences. Even when Ted's blatant irresponsibility in the work place got him hired and later promoted, Ted was shocked because he knew behavior like that was supposed to have repercussions (he was hoping for them, in fact). And that really says a lot about today. But most of all, I really appreciated that MacFarlane didn't pull any punches, except thankfully on politics. So many comedies these days have to put in some political joke (almost like its required).

Damn you famiy Guyyyyy!!!!!

I suppose I don't see how any of what you said would be defined as clever. I mean, nods to your favorite or classic films happen in a lot of movies, but for them to be really clever, I think they have to be almost unnoticeable. The obscure and forgotten pop icons is what 21 Jump Street is completely based on.

I also don't think Whalberg's character is society's commentary of men today as much as it is a bounce on the old trope of "man's best friend has to go because of a girl." It's pretty much a story of, in Ted's perspective, "bros before hos." I would say that Ted's offensive manner with the manager at the grocery station is one of my quips I had with the film originally: if the movie is setting itself up with real-life standards, why would this work? Honestly, it would have made more sense for him to be hired on because he used to be a celebrity.

I don't think the film plays out a social commentary at all. I think it just references things all over the place, and while some of them are humorous, they are, at the end of the day, makeshift jokes from different sources. And then near the end it sort of sucker punches us with a mid-field moral that seems sort of out of place. I mean, Ted says the same thing throughout the whole movie: he never wants to get in the way of Whalberg and Kunis, but he perpetually does so by throwing parties and being irresponsible. Even though Kunis *spoiler* brings him back to life *end spoiler* I don't necessarily see why Ted would change.

Doesn't the entire last act of the movie just promote that Ted needs John just as much as he needed him?

I think films can be funny without having substance, because I laughed hysterically at Black Dynamite. That being said, there was no real build to any of the situational humor, and a lot of the jokes were just Ted connecting insults to celebrities.

I hate to be one of those "Arrested Development" people, but one of the reasons why the show is so brilliant is because it manages comedy on all fronts. Even when it got absurd (season three episode with Michael Cera in a jetpack, fighting off Tobias in a Mole suit, destroying a small city in front of a bunch of Japanese men) it always had a spark of intelligence with everything it did, so that when it DID fall into the realm of stupidity, it's like all the jokes that you already laughed at fire at once, only this time it's even funnier.

...I need to stay off the Internet.