My review of Ted

I've been looking forward to this one. For a long time. Since the rumored Family Guy movie, I've been hoping MacFarlane would be successful in his film endeavors. I went to the first possible showing: 12:35 Friday afternoon at the west Warren Theater. A good sized crowd got to see the movie; it was a very good sized crowd for the early afternoon. We were in store for a profane but touching comedy.

I'll start out by saying I'll try not to spoil the party too much by giving anything away. I can tell you that Seth MacFarlane's comic genius in Family Guy, American Dad, and The Cleveland Show surges through to his movie writing/directing. A lot of profane and drug related humor made me laugh, and the rest of the audience laughed too.

So, the jokes are there, and the movie is downright hilarious, but it goes beyond that too. Mila Kunis and Mark Wahlberg are great. Mark Wahlberg's role could have easily destroyed the movie had someone lesser taken the character. I could see someone overacting in some of the humorous parts, but Wahlberg does great. The "Thunder Buddy" song as shown in the red movie trailer is an example of something that could have been ruined by overacting. But no. And MacFarlane was enjoyable too. His voice sounded a bit like Peter Griffin's at times, but that's to be expected.

The plot is simple, but it works for this kind of a movie. Wahlberg has been wasting time, smoking weed and shooting the shit with his Teddy bear while Mila Kunis tries to get him to move forward in various places in life. The job, the romance; they suffer.

I  won't say any more than that because many of you haven't had the chance to see it yet. I will say that this film is not for children and definitely deserves it's R rating. And I will also say that Seth MacFarlane is a comic genius.