Review of Ted 2 (2015) by Mrmoviebuff — 05 Mar 2016

Seth MacFarlane returns to the director's chair once again, with a sequel to the surprise comedy of 2012 that is 'Ted' (2012). He brings us...'Ted 2'.

Mark Wahlberg returns as John Bennett, the grown man with his best friend, the teddy bear that is Ted (voiced by Seth MacFarlane).

The movie begins with the wedding of Ted and Tami-Lynn (Jessica Barth), and we learn that John's been recently divorced from Lori (who was played by Mila Kunis, who didn't return for this sequel), and needs to find new love. We see that Ted and Tami-Lynn settle in to married life, and are struggling to pay bills, and have a heated argument that is similar to the beginning of 'Raging Bull' (1980), it was very funny and had me laughing for a while.

We then see that Ted plans on having a baby with Tami-Lynn which they hope will solidify their relationship, and Ted needs to find a sperm donor. They turn to their life-long icon, Sam Jones (as himself), but he cannot deliver. John decides, after a number of attempts to ask other people, that he should offer the gesture, and this leads to a very funny sequence in the fertility clinic.

All hope seems to be lost when Ted gets a letter informing him that he is not a human being, but instead, he is "property", and must settle this in a court case, but he needs a lawyer. The lawyer that he turns to is a young girl named Sam Jackson (Amanda Seyfried), who they discover also smokes and gets high, and she instantly earns their trust.

Donny (Giovanni Ribisi) is seen working at the Hasbro factory, where Ted was manufactured and hears about his court case, and persuades the boss to make Ted lose the case and find out what made him special and sell millions for the company.

The movie is pretty much similar to the first one in terms of its overall plot, and delivers the same laughs we loved from before. But, there are times where even the character Ted comes off as a little annoying from time to time, sometimes MacFarlane probably should've reduced his dialogue to a certain extent. We even get some forced pop-culture references to films like 'Jurassic Park' (1993), and even "Star Wars" that feel very forced as this movie only seems to live off and is dependent on pop-culture jokes to keep it alive.

The original 2012 movie didn't rely too much on forced humor to keep it structured, but this one does, which shows that Seth MacFarlane just ran out of steam for the movie, and the only reason why this sequel was ever made was due to the fact that the first one was a surprise hit.

Mediocre sequel to a surprise comedy.