Review of Ted 2 (2015) by Ydnar4 — 28 Jun 2015

Ted 2 was one of the movies I was most excited for in 2015 but also the one I was most worried about. After Seth MacFarlane's funny but weaker effort in A Million Ways to Die in the West I had my doubts about a Ted sequel being strong enough to be a success.

This movie had a lot of pressure on it to perform as well as the original film which in my opinion is the funniest film of this decade. Ted 2 is not as funny as the previous film but it still is very funny and laugh out loud funny in several parts.

The chemistry between Mark Wahlberg and Ted is still very much present and the pair are both really funny. Ted is truly the main character of this movie as Mark Wahlberg's character was the focal point in the first movie.

Sadly in this film we lose Mila Kunis to pregnancy and she is replaced by Amanda Seyfried who I was not impressed with in A Million Ways to Die in the West but in this movie she was great and she fits in more with Wahlberg and Ted even more than Mila Kunis did.

I like the idea of sending Ted to court for this film because it is entirely different than the first movie but as the movie went on I was finding more and more similarities. Ted 2 feels even more like a Family Guy episode.

Giovanni Ribisi is back in this movie and I don't think he really needed to be. His character just complicated things and allowed the movie to follow almost the same path the previous movie did. I think that Ted 2 may be the funniest film we get in 2015, but it was not perfect.

If MacFarlane decides to do a third Ted I think it is his best interest to take a little more time and do something really fresh with the comedy genre.