Movie Review – Ted

God damn.  For all my posturing as a refined film watcher, loving the high brow approach to comedy with the subtle tact of ninja like jokes, watching a film like this reaffirms that I still have that humor of a 6 year old that revels in the absurd dick and fart joke genre.  I watched the trailers for Ted, Seth MacFarlane’s first foray into big feature directing, and thought, “the fuck is this?”  It seemed like it was just a 90 minute long, live action Family Guy episode brought to life and I just dismissed outright.  It was going to play up the whole shock angle of a teddy bear being utterly crude, which it does, but never really offering something more than a bear swearing and doing drugs.  I am just going to come out and say this, but Ted was/is one of the funniest R-rated comedies to come out this year.

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