Review of Ted 2 (2015) by Now-Hear-Me-Out — 30 Jul 2015

To my friend and I, we believe that the laughs were bigger, longer and uncut, until the 20 or so minute mark, they become less frequent, just jokes in general stop happening, it's not exactly what you want for every comedy, but the court room scenes (c.r.s.) and scenes with the Donny character give the audience a moment of pause and reflection, only that moment isn't composed of enough or any laughter to fill time or to break the bleak mood of the audience, the audience itself should serve only to enhance the film, but damn when you get silence for a good 10 minutes it can feel like a job sitting there, looking, sifting through the crap you've already sat through, the Donny character could have [and should have] been revealed at the end when he unmasks himself at a con, the convention is where a **** load of prat falls, punching, tripping, and the gripping of the 3 nippled lady proves to have been a time waster and a hell of a drawn out one, now I remember the first Ted and it having the same problem with wrapping up the plot in the last act, but in this there are still jokes occasionally popping up, which is appreciating, where in the first one fell flat, this new effort does make up for.

Now where this film could MAJORLY improve would be in the c.r.s. It was the best scene in Airplane II because they filled the time with joke after joke after joke filed to the brim with genuine laugh out loud comedy, in here they slip in [or slap in, rather] maybe 5, 10 jokes, 1 of which comes out of nowhere and is off putting, it's to dry and muddled, I don't know why Seth MacFarlane could not come up with anymore in these two scenes, forget throwing anything at the wall to see what sticks, he doesn't even wind up to give it a chance. There's another film called Serial Mom (Waters) where in a c.r.s., the jokes keep coming at you like a freight train, it stays on track with the course and hits a few bumps along the way but keeps on a truckin'.

Overall I'd put this up there with This is the End, in that it'll be funny once, and you'll come back to it later remembering the great canyon of no jokes and failed attempts, but the ones that work, work, like Brooks' High Anxiety, it works as a one trick pony and beats out other show room horses that couldn't even reach the reins if they tried.