Ted. Rated MA 15+ (strong sexual references, coarse
language and drug use). 106 minutes. Directed by Seth MacFarlane. Screenplay by Seth MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild.
Verdict: This surprisingly witless affair never reaches the
heights to which it constantly aspires.
You’d think that with
three writers (who all work together on Family Guy – the successful TV series created by MacFarlane),
they would have been able to come up with something less repetitive and less
lavatory humour focussed. What we get, frustratingly, are torrents of the kind
of base humour that is not only on the nose, but that gets in the way of this
film taking the flight of fantasy it constantly threatens to.
