Ted Reviews

I was expecting something more than repetitive jokes, incessant pop culture references and rampant misogyny.

Full Review | Original Score: C

Hit and miss humour with problematic undertones buoyed by an intriguing premise and appealing performances from the film's human cast.

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A refreshingly original idea backed by excellent performances and terrifically funny writing.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

The creator of TV's "Family Guy" directs his first live-action movie-in which he gets to say and do all the profane, politically incorrect and just plain gross things he can't say or do on television. And a lot of it is pretty funny.

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MacFarlane is reduced to making increasingly laboured references to the 1980s.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Those who detest Family Guy will not be converted but fans will surely lap up a film that - whilst sometimes flawed - is rude, crude and often very funny.

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Ted presents plenty of fresh laughs and, from time to time, heart/stuffing-warming character moments.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

A film with Ted's ingredients should have you stone-drunk on laughter but this film is the comedic equivalent of pissed-in light beer: its 2.5% funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

I enjoyed and laughed at Ted, but I can't say I liked it; MacFarlane lacks focus, the jokes are occasionally offensive, and though the movie has heart, it bungles whatever message it's trying to get across.

Full Review | Original Score: 6.5/10

Feel free to tell me to lighten up and get a sense of humour, but it's also worth asking whether it's humour that really drives Ted's nasty streak.

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"Ted" is what happens when you give the creator of "Family Guy" the freedom of an R-rating and a big budget - and the final product is nothing short of raunchy, comedy gold.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10

The laughs are mountainously massive.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

A lot of comic effort is smothered in conventional wrapping.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10

If you've ever put a Twisted Sister cassette into a Teddy Ruxpin or wished you could have, this movie is for you.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.0/4.0

Raunchy, intentionally offensive and full of warm fuzzies (including its title character), 'Ted' is one of the funniest movies for grownups that's come along in years.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

With Ted, MacFarlane has produced a genuinely laugh-a-minute yarn which warms the heart and tickles the funny bone into hysterical submission.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

If you're fundamentally put off by MacFarlane's brand of comedy, Ted's cruder elements may well prove too irksome, but this film does have a sweetness at its heart that is pleasantly unexpected, even if it does follow an extremely predictable plot.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

there is a sophisticated social satire at work that is so finely wrought that though it might appear as the very thing it is skewering, there is something much more subtle and much more potent going on.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Ted gives a rude, irreverent and, in places, very funny new spin to the buddy comedy genre.

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At times I laughed so hard I thought I would bust a capillary somewhere.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5