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Topic: Ted (2012)
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Mark Ogden
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From: Little Falls, N.J.
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 06-29-2012 02:50 PM
A lonely young boy wishes his teddy bear to life and promises it eternal friendship, but thirty years later finds its degenerate and clingy manner driving a wedge between him and his live-in girlfriend.
I’m not a big fan of Family Guy or Seth McFarland in general, so I wasn’t crazy about seeing this, but it turned out to be OK though no where near as funny as the trailer would have you believe (in fact, most of the jokes in the trailer are in the first fifteen minutes of the movie). The sight of a foul-mouthed, high-attitude dope-obsessed teddy bear is funny at first, but the movies relentless sexist/homophobic/racist/dick/fart/sex/drug humor gets tiresome pretty fast, and there a LOT of fart jokes. Weak ending, too. It has its moments, though, and Marky Mark and Mila Kunis make a nice screen couple. Here’s a hint before you go: familiarity with the 1980 film Flash Gordon will be rewarded.
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Mike Blakesley
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From: Forsyth, Montana
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posted 07-05-2012 11:24 AM
We were in Billings for the 4th of July, and had a couple hours to kill so we decided to see "Ted" at the Carmike Shiloh 14 (which I had never been inside of before). This theatre is famous (or should be) for having the official Carmike World's Noisiest Air Conditioning System®. Seriously, it sounds like there is a jet aircraft warming up behind the screen. Other than that the presentation was fine.
Anyway, on to the movie. Virtually the whole story except the part about Spoiler Alert - Click to Toggle
Ted getting kidnapped
can be surmised from the trailers, and at least 75% of the funniest bits are in the red-band trailer, unfortunately. There is a sort of twist just after the "day is saved" that provides one of the best laughs in the movie, and it's not even a dirty joke. In fact some of the better bits in the movie aren't raunchy at all.
Overall, it's more a romantic comedy with sex jokes than it is a raunch-fest, which surprised me. I agree about the lead couple having good chemistry. The movie is well-cast all around. The bad guy is truly creepy. They could make a comedy horror movie around him and his equally weird kid.
One trivial bit: They use a segment from the movie "Airplane" which features the song "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees. In "Airplane," the song is sped-up by about 10% (why, I don't know) but in this usage of the clip, the song is played at the normal speed.
I am fairly well-known on this forum for bashing Carmike, which they often deserve. But I also will say when they do something right. We were about 30 minutes ahead of showtime, but the ticket taker allowed us to go in anyway. When we went into the auditorium, the end-credits of the previous show were still playing and the place was a mess...lots of popcorn cups and such sitting around. After we sat there for about 5 minutes, a couple of employees came in and were apparently wondering why there were two people sitting there....they must have thought we were from the earlier show and just hadn't left yet. Finally one of them asked us if we were here for the next show, and we said yes. Then he said "We apologize for the auditorium -- they're supposed to let us clean it before the next crowd comes in." I said, "no problem, we were just early" and they proceeded to clean the place up, all the while chatting us up and saying things like "is this your first time here," "this movie is really funny, you'll like it" and so forth. It was pleasant visiting with them. So props to Carmike for these two good ambassadors.
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Kurt Zupin
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From: Maricopa, Arizona
Registered: Oct 2004
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posted 07-09-2012 12:39 PM
quote: Frank Cox
The movie is deliberately jarring (kids movie style narrator cutting to a scene of the teddy bear smoking crack. and so on)
quote: Frank Cox
and smoking crack is a recurring theme in the movie.
There is never an instance of smoking crack. Any time you see them getting high other then the cocaine it is pot. This is refrenced several times with key words such as "Stoned" "My pot dealer" and so on.
Robert, I'm not sure if your question is for real or not. However the people that the film makers are making movies like "TED" "The Hangover" "Bridesmaids" "Due Date" for, are the general movie going public. That, sorry to state Robert isn't 60+ year old white males. It is 13-40 year olds both male and female. Enjoy the past, that's fine but let it go that the golden days of repressed sexual tones in movies and slang terms isn't in anymore and movies are open and don't care who they offend. They are there to entertain!
quote: Robert E. Allen
Sadly they have created a taste among a small segment of society for this garbage and actually make money doing it.
A movie that has made $120 Million in just 10 days, that is not a small segment of society Robert. That is an over concensus that people want movies like Ted. (Edited to add this)
Now onto TED, I loved it. Thought it was funny, had a great heart. It pulled all the great things from Family Guy during seasons 1 and 2 and used them to great laughs. I thougt, like many others that the sub plot didn't need to be there. It felt tacked on and forced towards the end. However it wasn't bad, just didn't feel like it needed to be there.
Patrick Stewart as the Narrator was great.
4/5 ![[thumbsup]](graemlins/thumbsup.gif)
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