Ted is a funny movie. for many of you reading this, that last sentence is enough of a recommendation for you to go see it. It's also true. If you go see Ted, chances are you will laugh. And since that's all Ted really set out to do, it must then be called a success.
But how successful is it. Coming from the maker of Family Guy, it had a lot of potential. Family Guy, in its heyday, was a truly clever show that disguised itself as a thoroughly stupid show. It had plots that served very little purpose and were thus given very little attention. The jokes were the reason that people watched the show, and Seth MacFarlane knew it and provided them, no matter how much sense they made in their context. Because of that, there was hope that Ted could somehow function as a return of the 80s style of comedy that treated plot as a loose connection between the never-ending barrage of jokes.
However, Ted never quite achieves that level, settling instead to function as a standard, if above average, comedy film. A lot of the jokes are very random, and very funny, but there is always the plot looming in the background, which is given too much focus and, simply put, distracts from the laughs. This is only a minor gripe, until the third act, when almost all sense of comedy is lost in favor of tying up the story. If it had just been about a living teddy bear, and been just an hour and a half of jokes related to that, then this could have been a perfect and special comedy. However, in the end it's just a standard comedy with some above average jokes.
But you will laugh.
Grade: B
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