Joel McHale become a douchebag boss of Lori, all narcissistic and unbelievably vain, not a huge gap from his character in TV series, Community. Their performances are solid, although in Kunis case, i do not enjoy her performance here as much as That 70’s Show’s Jackie or on 2011 Friends with Benefits. I was indifferent by Mark Wahlberg and the adorable Mila Kunis. All the human casts interaction was very fluid and smooth, making Ted existence more believable. I have to say, even though Ted the animated CGI teddy bear is the obvious scene-stealer it does not mean the other casts was bad (refering 2011 Rise of The Planet of The Apes, remember that?). Whether i knew it or not, and i appreciate the hilarity and comic of Ted’s every lines and heightened by his gestures and especially with that accent of his. I personally had a great laughs with all the pop cultural punch and references, from the ET homage, Star Wars’ The Imperial March ringtones, to Flashdance. The bro is thunder buddies for live, with apparent obsession with 70’s-80’s pop culture, with no exception of Flash Gordon. He started off as a cuddly and lovable teddy bear a gift from John parents for christmas that became famous in the 90’s but eventually become a burn out, pot-smoking, crude-speaking friend of mid-thirties John. The bro in this case is a talking teddy bear, Ted, brilliantly voiced by Seth MacFarlane, from the Family Guy fame. The movie starts of by giving off this vibe that made you feel like you are watching a narrated opening of children christmas movie, do not worry, as soon as you hear the things the narrator said, you know you are in the right movie. The entire storyline is pretty much your generic bromance story that you can find in many movie with Jason Segal (2009 I Love You, Man or even 2011 The Muppets), where one of lead actor must chose between his bro or his ho. Can John grew up into the man that Lori wants? Will the severed bonds made the two best friends drifts appart? Ted move out to a new apartment and works at a new job that he’s surprisingly good at. After four years of dating, Lori confronts John to encourage Ted to move out of theirs (probably Lori’s) apartment. Fast forward 27 year, 35 years old John work in a boring job, with his pot-smoking buddy Ted, and manage to score a fabulous girlfriend Lori. John grew into adulthood with his popular-turn-forgotten-much-like-Corey-Feldman-Frankie-Muniz-and-Justin-Bieber teddy bear. The movie open with a stereotypical kid’s Christmas movie, a snowy landscape serve as a backdrop of lonely childhood, a wise-sounding narrator introducing the hero of the story and the magic that about to happen to him, a talking teddy bear that will be his friend forever, a fulfillment of the lonely, friendless boy’s wish. Due to its R-rated nature, i did not expect it to air at all in Indonesia, but voila, few months after the initial US release, its finally here! The trailer was rather misleading at first, i thought it’s another disney-esque living-toys movie for kids, how wrong was i! Ted is definitely not a movie for kids, though the poster manage to trick a few parents to bring their kids to see the talking teddy bear. I was so excited when i saw the trailer for Ted on iTunes trailer a few months back. Do you have one? One that works like a security blanket and becomes a semi-non-imaginary friend from your childhood? Have you ever expect it to become alive during your preteen, and become your friend throughout the year, and grew into adulthood, and become a pot-smoking, hooker-banging, crudely speaking friend? I’m not sure I want that in my life, but apparently, for Mark Wahlberg’s John Bennett, Ted is. Cuddly, fluffy, snuggle, all adorableness of a teddy bear.
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