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2.8
Theres nothing like an inevitable sequel to put a growth spurt in reverse.
Av Club
1.5
And while an early Breakfast Club spoof is lazy even by MacFarlane standards, a Jurassic Park parody plays smarter tribute to Spielbergs blockbuster t ..
Av Club
1.5
Rather than built around a single central narrative that acted like a terrific 100 minute joke in Ted, this go round is just one marijuana sketch here ..
Den Of Geek
2.5
Teds antics revolve around the same dirty formula that has divided audiences through MacFarlanes boundless obscenities, a vast spectrum of potty humor ..
We Got This Covered
2.0
The outcome is no great surprise, and plenty of the gags feel as though they were meant to be throwaways, but Ted 2, exactly like its predecessor, has ..
Austin Chronicle
3.0
Its also a Busby Berkeley musical, a road trip movie, a rom com and whatever else MacFarlanes famously digressive sense of humor wanted to accommodate ..
Time Out
1.5
Its just elaborate, and I kind of admire MacFarlanes willingness to drop in a long sequence that doesnt further the plot or even try to get laughs.
Collider
3.5
The trouble is, lazy, opportunistic writing can be distracting in its own way, and theres way too much of it in Ted 2 to fully ignore.
Vulture
2.8
Any charm in having such content delivered by a talking teddy bear has officially worn off by now. None of this is really even all that shocking just ..
Paste Magazine
1.9
Acridness combined with ineffective humor is a bad mix, and whatever goodwill the movie scored based on sentimental value or the few effective jokes i ..
Rogerebert
3.4
New jokes for the old characters can be exceptionally difficult to come by and you can only retell the old jokes in so many ways.
IGN
3.0
Overall, if you loved the first film, chances are you will at least like the sequel.
The Young Folks
3.0
Action films can sometimes make up for shoddy plotting with a bombastic conclusion.Once comedies run out of steam and stop providing laughs, however, ..
Cinema Blend
1.0
Theres nothing wrong with crude jokes, but these barely qualify as jokes.
Ny Daily News
3.0
While the first movie was often very funny, it was also more than a little clumsy with a weak second half not the most promising set up for a sequel.
JoBlo
3.0
Whether or not that level of response is enough to justify a big budget movie threequel remains to be seen but overall, theres no harm in spending an ..
Screen Rant
1.3
This is MacFarlanes idea of comedy in a nutshell: smash some easy pop references together, and itll be funny.
The Globe And Mail
1.5
But the result comes across less as well meaning social commentary than as just more thoughtlessly frat boy humor.
One Guys Opinion
2.5
No, the joke is the joke its comedy writers idea of whats funny, not comedy writers idea of what Boston bros think is funny.
Village Voice
4.0
You may not find that joke funny, but you can probably at least see the multiple layers lurking behind it.
Village Voice
1.9
The acquired taste that is Seth MacFarlane is harder to acquire and the one joke in his one joke comedy about the pot smoking/potty mouthed teddy bear ..
Rogers Movie Nation
3.5
Little was expected of a talking bear comedy co starring Mark Wahlberg, but co writer/director Seth MacFarlane delivered a brew of smut and sweetness ..
Blu Ray
2.0
The tasteless teddy bear (given voice by writer director Seth MacFarlane) and his emotionally retarded human pal (Mark Wahlberg) return for more snark ..
Chicago Reader
2.5
The movie ... finds itself in a strange place in tying Teds legal fight to similar real world ones.
Mark Reviews Movies
2.5
Its par for the humorous course: For every two smart, gut busting gags, theres one that whiffs, and everyones bound to get offended at least a little.
Usa Today
2.0
If you liked the first Ted film, which launched Seth MacFarlanes potty mouthed teddy, you may still find the second offensive, not because of its daft ..
The Times
2.5
Theres the usual assortment of non sequitur jokes, the more taboo (never mind funny), the better.
Eric Ds Nider
2.0
A simpler film that relied more on the gags and less on bullshit sentimentality wouldve been just fine.Theres no need for 75 percent of this movie to ..
News Review
2.0
Adding Seyfriedand Morgan Freeman as a wise, old legal eaglehelps, but its the old sequel story: without the first movies element of surprise the joke ..
News Review
3.0
Naturally, the CGI bear has all the best lines, but Wahlberg certainly isnt overshadowed, demonstrating some great comic timing (which is even more im ..
Radio Times
3.5
If you are a MacFarlane fan, youll get your moneys worth.But Im reviewing for a broader audience here, and I dont think theres quite enough laughs to ..
Screen It
3.1
Audiences made Ted one of the highest grossing R rated comedies ever.
Rolling Stone
2.5
There are some good laughs in this movie, as opposed to the bad laughs, the lame laughs and those non laughs at Comic Con.
The Wrap
2.5
Ted 2s purpose is noble enough to make one feel slightly guilty for not finding much of it especially funny.
Film Journal
2.0
Returning to an idea that had run its course by the end of 2012s original (the highest grossing R rated comedy of all time, apparently), Ted 2 adds a ..
The Guardian
4.0
Gasps that loud for a horror movie would mean raves were on the way.But this is a different genre.
The Guardian
3.0
Some are clever, some are just gross, some simply wager that audiences will laugh at seeing a fuzzy bear scream about getting jizz all over him.Cinema ..
The Guardian
2.0
I love raunchy humor when its funny.).But were getting ahead of things.
Az Central
2.0
While I stayed mostly stony faced through both the original Ted and this sequel, professional duty obliges me to recognise MacFarlane as a genuine ecc ..
Smh
5.0
But it is summer and if the beach doesnt beckon, then this wonderfully revealing film certainly should.
Daily Mail
2.8
Plenty of decent movies have been built on flimsier narrative scaffolding than Ted 2s, but MacFarlane and writers Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild are s ..
Ew
3.5
McFarlane almost wants to say something relevant here, but he loses sight of it very quickly in a haze of eighties callbacks and sight gags involving ..
Cinema Crazed
2.5
(What does an undeniably infectious pop hit from 1969, by a guy from Brooklyn, have to do with Boston.Im glad you asked.)
Salon
3.0
But if youre looking for a shamelessly puerile comedy, you wont find anything lewder or louder this summer.
Flim List
2.0
Attempting to bring an original idea for a comedic sequel rather then a simple re do of the first film is commendable, but the plot is too sparse and ..
Film Inquiry
2.5
The bawdy bear is back in this flagrantly fumbling sequel and its disappointingly un funny.
Susang Ranger
3.0
When Ted first came out, it surprised audiences by being touching as well as funny; the sequel one ups it by being funny and touching and boasting som ..
Common Sense Media
3.8
MacFarlane is doing it as a spoof, but its too well done to be only a spoof.
Sf Gate
2.0
Arriving on a big wave of gay jokes, some of them undeniably funny, most of them juvenile, is Ted2, and guess what, its the same movie as Ted.
Boston Herald
1.9
Ultimately, MacFarlanes woefully simplistic examination of the fight for civil rights diffuses whatever comic brio the film manages to drum up through ..
Slant Magazine
1.3
He exhibits zero proficiency in cinematic staging and no sense of pace.
Washington Post
3.5
It also didnt debase its subjects.Jokes dont need to make you think, and comedy isnt school, even if the Three Stooges have taught us much.
The New York Times
2.8
The whole devolves into an over long Family Guy episode chock full of random asides, weird cameos, and goofy homage.
The Film Stage
2.5
This gimmick is good, insofar as it brings in Seyfried.She provides some real charm, something the movie otherwise lacks.
Boston Globe
3.2
But MacFarlane keeps spinning silly non sequiturs that keep things amusing.
Reeling Reviews
1.0
Doc Brown style.But this would be a cleverness beyond what MacFarlane has to offer.
Flickfilosopher
2.0
Ted 2 is not entirely devoid of comic merit. But it is way off the pace set by its predecessor.
The Irish Times
1.8
Instead, what should be the heart of the movie is just another throwaway gag.
Blogs Indie Wire
2.5
But summer destination movies need considerably more than what this threadbare sequel has to offer.
ReelViews
2.0
The sequel pretty much hews to the template of its predecessor, with the same creative team and the return of most of the original cast members save f ..
Hollywood Reporter
3.0
It was the mere sight of a big teddy bear coming alive, not to be cute but to prove himself a foul mouthed, sex obsessed stoner that was so surprising ..
Standard
0.5
Filled with F bombs and ridiculous situations that dont even qualify as sophomoric, Ted 2, is an unfunny, vulgar sequel that aims for the lowest commo ..
Tony Medley
2.5
There are some scenes in Ted 2 that you might want to look up on YouTube later, but theres no reason to subject yourself to the whole thing.
Pajiba
2.0
The movies best jokes are simple and visual, like the sight of Ted dressed in rain gear to procure Tom Bradys sperm.
Los Angeles Times
1.8
The sequel to the 2012 smash is filled with warmed over gross out gags and pot humor.Laughing yet
Detroit News
2.5
Its a fitting start for a movie that acknowledges its own inescapable sequel ness at least as often as Jurassic World, repeating some gags, inverting ..
Variety
2.0
At the very least, its a much more satisfactory effort than that recent repeat offender Horrible Bosses 2.
Herald Sun
3.5
The surprise smash hit highlighted MacFarlanes best and worst attributes as a creative force in one overlong but frequently gut busting film.
Consequence Of Sound
2.5
MacFarlane, along with cowriters Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild, opens Ted with a remarkably engaging and entertaining prologue that immediately lures ..
Reel Film
1.9
Sure, MacFarlane can write simple jokes as long as the f key on his laptop holds out. Some of them are even funny. But a lot of them dont pay off, and ..
Nj
1.5
Once was enough.Maybe its the moment, but I wasnt in the mood for what feels like an endless stream of jokes about black men and their private parts.
Movie Habit
2.5
If you didnt see and laugh at the first Ted, and maybe also at MacFarlanes button pushing TV series Family Guy, then another movie deserves your enter ..
The Star
2.5
That somebody is the writer director.MacFarlane has a quick, clever mind and a cheeky willingness to try anything.
Oregon Live
2.0
TED 2 SYNOPSIS: Newlywed couple Ted (voice of Seth MacFarlane) and Tami Lynn (Jessica Barth) want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a pare ..
Urban Cine File
3.0
If a joke falls flator grosses you outyou dont have to wait very long for the next one that may make you laugh out loud.
Maki At The Movies
1.5
This time around, the talking bear doesnt blend into a background of normal (or conspicuously mediocre) lives, but rather takes center stage as an ite ..
3.0
But given the brilliance of its forebear, you cant help wishing for something better.By cutting out a good 20 minutes, it would have been twice as fun ..
Mirror
2.5
Because of that novelty, any humor was bound to be a case of diminishing returns since the more you see of this bear, the less shocking it becomes.The ..
Three Movie Buffs
3.0
Not all the gags are inspired and the excessive swearing can feel like a substitute for actual jokes, but even if this isnt solid comedy gold, its sti ..
Digital Spy
4.2
Ted 2 isnt cinematically special; the plot structure and shot framing is identical to MacFarlanes animated TV shows. But my god, is it funny. Trashy, ..
Tamp A Bay
3.1
Is a ballplayer who whiffs four times but hits the ball 500 feet on his fifth try worth watching.I say yes.
New York Post
1.5
You can laugh at the dumb jokes but if you try and defend this as a good movie then thats where you lose us.
Star Burst Magazine
3.0
However, you can only admire MacFarlanes relentless commitment to crude, boundary pushing comedy and swearing.
Nz Herald
2.0
The jokes feel like the first gags that sprang to mind.The plot is largely ignored.
Flicks
2.0
Not as appalling as MacFarlanes much derided A Million Ways to Die in the West, but Ted 2 proves comedic lightning doesnt strike twice.
Stuff
3.5
Its not quite clever enough to be a classic, but watching these idiots is sometimes hilarious.
Contact Music
3.5
Its not a perfect sequel.A depressed Wahlberg is a less fun Wahlberg, and the celebrity cameos are often overwhelmed by gross out gags.
Film Racket
2.5
But they are ultimately warring impulses, and the dorm room comedy routine too often wins.
Vanity Fair
2.0
Forget turning your brain off for Ted 2, watch this movie when youre barely conscious or half asleep and you will enjoy fonder memories of this latest ..
Ib Times
4.0
Some films aspire to high insanity.Ted 2 aims low and hits the target, but also manages, in its scattershot way, to be gleefully resonant with our fev ..
Wsj
2.5
This sequels attempt to broaden its horizons with commentary about what it is to be human lacks the depth, provocation and laughs to justify messing w ..
Matts Movie Reviews
3.5
As before, the language is a bear, the sight gags grisly and your reactions polar. But this time theres also a surprising amount of heart.
Patriot Ledger
1.5
If you can take it for what it is, an unnecessary retread with a few decent laughs and ample doses of both mean spirited humor and liberal high morali ..
4.5
Johns sadness at losing Lori is absolutely believable, but Ted 2s only suggestion for him is finding someone new, and that just doesnt work.
Ign
2.8
It may like a moronic idea but Ted was 2012s highest grossing comedy at the box office.
The Film Pie
1.5
The MacFarlane Comedy Machines penchant for cut away gags and pop culture based humor is on full display throughout the films draggy 115 minutes, but ..
The Dissolve
2.5
Ted 2 doesnt hold a candle to the original film, but it entertains enough to warrant a trip to the theater.It could be that the initial premise has lo ..
Movie Web
2.0
It seems like the pic is aware of its own narrative listlessness, frontloading its first 30 minutes with jokes in an attempt to outrun the uninspired ..
Cinemix Tape
2.5
The first Ted balanced the crude laughs with a sweet friendship between a man child and his teddy bear.
Straits Times
3.0
But as I say in my video review above, this is a comic follow up worth its weight in jokes jokes that land just about every time.
Dead Line
3.0
It knows what its doing, and what its doing is reducing shock jokes to its most base element as mere shocks.
Metro New York
3.5
But instead of melding potently, the ingredients simply vaporizeor even worse, melt into crocodile tears.
Film Comment
4.5
Its odd to see such a mix of merciless humour and heartfelt schmaltz, but somehow it works in this riotous return to form for MacFarlane.
One Room With A View
1.0
Seth MacFarlane would love to offend you.He built his empire on Family Guys race, sex, and bodily function gags, and made the transition to feature fi ..
Flavor Wire
2.5
A hit and miss and miss comedy infused with humor thats more than sketch.Its sketchy.
Daily Herald
2.0
As a result, Ted 2 feels lazy and self indulgent.Its a film where there are huge stretches without any passable joke, where quite often a Boston accen ..
The Shiz Nit
3.3
When it overextends itself which is most of the time its mostly just tedious.
Crave Online
3.0
At least theres a joke about how Amanda Seyfried looks a bit like Gollum. Take your victories and all that.
What Culture
2.5
MacFarlane appears to have started off with a handful of solid jokes and spun a screenplay around them instead of writing a plot first.Cut down by abo ..
Movie Mezzanine
2.5
The notion of a trash talking teddy bear is pretty funnybut funny for how long
reason
1.5
The fate of Ted 2 really boils down to one simple question: Will fans of Ted and MacFarlane be pleased Probably.
Bowling Green Daily News
2.0
Absurdity derives from surprise, but you can only be surprised once.
Lainey Gossip
2.0
At nearly two hours and half a dozen story lines, Ted 2 is simply too much of a so so thing
Seven Day Svt
2.0
This storyline is both a pretty good set up and a potential minefield.
Fat Guys At The Movies
2.0
But is it consistently funny.Not even close, and the quantity over quality approach means a lot of the film is rendered uncomfortably dull (or worse, ..
Concrete Play Ground
2.5
It may seem a little nitpicky to demand decent cinematic values from a wacky comedy about a foul mouthed childrens toy, but any good movie deserves ca ..
National Post
3.0
And any sops towards touchy feeliness come with an arm punching pay off.Morgan Freeman adds a touch of gravitas as a top civil rights lawyer but every ..
Sky
1.0
This comedy works for those who enjoy toilet humour, but unfortunately its not my cup of tea.
The New Paper
3.0
That penchant pays off in stretches of liberating laughter in this sequel, directed and co written by MacFarlane.
Winnipeg Free Press
4.5
At least the guy has a sense of humor.The laughs come free and easy and McFarlane paces them well.
Media Mikes
0.5
Where precisely the joke is depends on what you find funny at either extreme.MacFarlanes sense of humor is at its best when it conflates innocence wit ..
Grant Land
3.0
It is not good storytelling its not even good moviemaking but it is often very entertaining.
Blog Bullz Eye
1.0
This soft, squidgy sequeltwice as not absolutely horrible as its mean, small minded predecessor, only because its half as crass and stupidsquanders it ..
Vue Weekly
2.5
This unnecessary and tedious sequel is an extension of that unfocused narrative.
Us Magazine
1.5
SNL cast members skewer that shows weaknesses with a dreadful sketch about Teds court case.
Spectrum Culture
3.0
Ted 2 is neither ambitious nor smart and its jokes are often offensive and pretty vulgar.
Cairo 360
3.0
I cant say that the movie is great.Nor can I say that I didnt laugh.
Johnhanlon Reviews
2.5
Yes, much of their comedy sequel is familiar, but a laughs a laugh, even if it is from a joke theyve told us before.
Toledo Blade
1.5
You will laugh even though youll feel bad about some of the things you are laughing at.
Richard Crouse
3.0
This movie is ridiculous to begin with; the laughs hit you hard and often with lines that will offend andyone and everyone.
Schmoes Know
2.5
MacFarlane knows how to put dumb and funny together nicely in a way thats definitely edgy, sometimes uncomfortably so.
Ut Sandiego
4.0
It should go without saying, everybody with a heart and soul deserves to be treated equally.
Abc News Go
2.5
The line between what is smart and funny and what is cheap and unamusing is one the filmmaker hasnt yet quite mastered.
The Film File
2.5
The combination feels forced.A more disciplined and smarter director might have been able to successfully blend the two elements, but crude dude MacFa ..
Seattle Times
1.5
Ted 2, is everything about the first film recycled, less effective, and entirely forgettable.
3.1
So are moronic, stupid and absurd.But its also something else: a laugh riot.
Buffalo News
4.0
Or maybe fart gags, but whatever.All I know is I laughed myself silly.
The Mercury
2.0
He serves up puerile dick jokes that fail to mask a palpably earnest yearning for musical comedy superstardom.
Junkee
2.0
So you will laugh, somewhere, but you will spend long periods of this comedy not laughing, and wishing something funny would happen.
Gq Magazine
3.5
Fortunately, Ted 2 is more hit than miss, trading strongly on the still winning camaraderie between Mark Wahlberg and his foul mouthed, pot smoking te ..
Indie London
1.5
Seriously, does MacFarlane think hes dropping a ring into Mordor with this movie It.
The Hollywood Outsider
3.8
MacFarlanes ambition is to make us laugh, not make us wonder why were conscious beings pondering our float through the void.He succeeds for the most p ..
M Live
3.0
DONT be caught on the wrong side of history.Dont wait too long to be right.
Daily Telegraph
2.0
By Jay Stone The devolution of the Ted franchise from the crude humour of the 2012 original to the crude non humour of Ted 2 is an interesting study i ..
Ex Press
3.8
Seth MacFarlane often seems determined to make people laugh in ways that theyre not proud ofso mission accomplished, I guess.
City Weekly
1.5
However, after that point everything else in the film seems a bit cheaper and lazier, and nothing even comes close to matching the excitement in those ..
Fanboys of the Universe
1.5
Ted 2: Barely a Chuckle From This Bear The chutzpah that made Ted a successful and amusing parody of American culture is missing from the sequal, wher ..
Haaretz
4.0
If youre looking for something a little more brain stimulating, then youre probably best going to see something like Mr Holmes instead.
Ib Times
4.0
What could have easily been an uninspired, cash in sequel has wound up not just one of the funniest movies of the year, but a slice of Hollywood enter ..
Flickering Myth
4.5
...thanks to its simple yet relevant plot and a great amount of jokes that do work, Ted 2 works: it makes you laugh.
Cinencuentro
3.1
RedEyes Matt Pais rides the constant quality seesaw of Seth MacFarlanes blockbuster comedy follow up.
Trib
3.0
Teeters between politically incorrect humour and bad taste The rather appalling racist humour and a fixation on the black male sex organ just doesnt s ..
Times of Malta
3.0
An almost nonstop parade of crude jokes, celebrity cameos and gurgling bong hits but I cant say its not funny, and some of it is downright hilarious.
Neils Entertainment Picks
3.1
The delightful wrongness of the central premise remains strong, however.
Christy Lemire
1.8
What exactly is happening 3.Look, I dont want to spend my time analyzing a dumb comedys ethnographic attitudes either.
The Concourse Deads
0.5
You could do the courtroom drama and medical drama and relationship drama and have it all come together, but not under this direction, not with this k ..
Dork Shelf
4.0
This is a below average sequel that feels like a watered down version of the first film.
Wow 247
1.5
Even though theres not much new in this installment...its still fun to go slumming in Ted and Johns world for 115 minutes, at least.
Dear Cast and Crew
0.5
Moreover, Ted looks like hes in desperate need of a bath, his fur matted and filthy.)
Deep Focus Review
1.5
More often than not, the desire to please fans and recreate the magic of the first produces nothing more than an exaggerated rehash.In an admirable ef ..
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