Ted (Seth McFarlane)
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Originality and Hollywood are exactly synonymous in this day and age. His stuff is very derivative of what came before, sometimes it works... other times not so much.
I saw the trailer today and my first thought was "Calvin and Hobbes".
Why do I have a feeling it will end "ala 'Newhart'" where Peter Griffin wakes up, and says "Lois you wont believe the nightmare I just had." lol
I mean Ted just sounds too Peter.
I mean Ted just sounds too Peter.
Ted himself gets after someone in the movie saying "I do not sound like Peter Griffin."
But anyhoo, since the movie is out, discussion time. Put simply, the movie is hilarious. One might think it would be simply a live action Family Guy, and in a way it is. All of McFarlane's tropes are there, offensive comments, cutaway scenes, celebrity mocking, an obsession with the 1980s, having Patrick Stewart provide voicework. Not to mention Ted is kind of like Brian in that despite not being human is somehow popular among human women and works human jobs. But thankfully, there's a fresh twist, mainly that there's a different set up. This is primarily a buddy comedy unlike McFarlane's TV shows, which lets face are all pretty much the same story about families with indentical members.
The movie is McFarlane at his finest. He avoids all the things which drag Family Guy and his other shows down lately (political commentary, religion bashing, and so on) and stick to basics, funny jokes that will make you laugh your ass off. Family Guy was at its best before it was cancelled, but this movie blows that out of the water.
The highlight of the movie is in the middle in which John (Mark Wahlberg) and Ted are at a party with some pretty crazy shit going on. I'll keep spoilers to a minimum, but Sam Jones (lead in the 1980s Flash Gordon movie) is in this scene playing himself. The result is awesome.
Surprisingly, there's not much here that couldn't be done on TV. There's swearing of course, and I don't think Fox would approve of all the drug use shows throughout. But aside from one scene of frontal nudity, everything here could easily be shown on TV.
Aside from McFarlane and Mila Kunis, fans of McFarlane's shows Patrick Warburton (Joe Swanson) although his character here seems to be a clone of David Puddy (his character on Seinfeld). Other voice actors from Family Guy and McFarlane's other shows have minor parts through out and Trek fans take note, the movie's narrator is none other than Patrick Stewart. Yes, the movie's opening scene features Captain Picard offer his opinions on Apache helicopters and Justin Bieber.
This movie is excellent.
I've seen dog turds that look funnier than this movie does.
The choice tonight was between seeing The Amazing Spider-Man and Ted. Pretty easy choice, really.
Ted is hilarious.
I was surprised that the first scheduled showing that I chose was sold out online - I mean, the movie's in it's third weekend, right? Well, the show that we got into (7:00 PM) was packed. The audience loved it - great word-of-mouth is keeping this thing going strong.
I was interested by the fact that the person I saw it with got almost none of the in-jokes or pop culture references - knows nothing about Flash Gordon, for example, and hates Family Guy - and she loved the movie.
With 143 million box office heading into the weekend on a production budget of 50 million dollars, the studio is probably ready right now to canonize Mcfarlane.
Ted is hilarious.
I was surprised that the first scheduled showing that I chose was sold out online - I mean, the movie's in it's third weekend, right? Well, the show that we got into (7:00 PM) was packed. The audience loved it - great word-of-mouth is keeping this thing going strong.
I was interested by the fact that the person I saw it with got almost none of the in-jokes or pop culture references - knows nothing about Flash Gordon, for example, and hates Family Guy - and she loved the movie.
With 143 million box office heading into the weekend on a production budget of 50 million dollars, the studio is probably ready right now to canonize Mcfarlane.
What I want to see is how ted has effected DVD sales of Flash Gordon.
"Death to Ming!"
I just about creamed myself laughing.
"Death to Ming!"
I just about creamed myself laughing.
I wondered about that myself. 
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