Ted

Movie: Ted

Genre: comedy

Synopsis: When a young John Bennett gets a teddy bear for Christmas, his makes a wish for the teddy bear to be real so they can be friends forever.  His wish is granted – and his teddy bear comes to life.  Flash forward to John in his thirties.  He and Ted are still best friends and still live together.  The problem is that they are both stoners and John is not making any progress in growing up.  His girlfriend, Lori (Mila Kunis) starts pressuring John to make a split from Ted.  Naturally, both Ted and John resist this idea.

My two cents: This is an R-rated film and the humor is often off-color.  That said, this is the funniest movie I have seen in years.  Ted is voiced by Seth McFarland, so it was like watching Peter Griffin re-incarnated as a teddy bear.  Scene after scene of people just accepting a teddy bear walking around, talking, making crude remarks and groping women never got old.  To see Ted making amorous advances on anything in a skirt . . .  to paraphrase Nora Jones (she played herself in the movie): “Sex with Ted was pretty good – which is surprising since he doesn’t have a penis”.   If you don’t mind some R-rated humor, this movie should keep you in stitches.

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