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Originally Posted by PaulD  Ted - Seth MacFarlane expands his comedic chops by going from writing about a talking foul-mouthed baby, a talking dog, a talking goldfish and a talking sarcastic alien to...a talking foul-mouthed teddy bear. Just how does he do it? Now I'm by no means MacFarlane's biggest fan and happen to think Family Guy has been treading water for years but still approached this with an open mind. I really struggle to find much nice to say about it to be honest. Wahlberg and Kunis are good in the main roles and really work well together and the cgi Ted is a fully believable character but the gags are the typical lazy Family Guy style jokes for the most part - pop culture references, "har har he's gay!" tedium and scenes where character just slag off other films with the same slow in the same drawn-out conversational tone of every Family Guy character. The worst part was a spoof of the disco scene in Airplane. You know, the one THAT'S A SPOOF OF SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER. Seth Macfarlane doesn't do jokes, he does references and it's clever because people who've seen Airplane can go "Oh, that's a reference to Airplane!" whereas those who haven't (and I suspect this film is largely aimed at this demographic) will just see it as a joke in its own right (and this isn't the first time he's s̶t̶o̶l̶e̶n̶ ̶f̶r̶o̶m̶ referenced a joke in Airplane). There's also an awful bit of lampshading where the Ted character denies that he sounds like Peter Griffin as if this in some way excuses the familiar style, tone and delivery of 80% of his lines. Utter rubbish but if you still like Family Guy you'll probably like it (and at least all of the jokes were part of the narrative and not clumsily put-together cutaways)
Jackass the Movie: great stuff! |
Indeed. Felt, that he'd sunk all his attention into this, so the last series of FG suffered. It isn't one thing or the other, much like
Devil Hunter (always with the DH!!!
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