The "offensive" jokes that pop up every once in a while in 'Ted 2' aren't social satire, or good gags, or even particularly vicious - they're a gimmick, taunting, trollery.

| May 28, 2016

Being awful is still no substitute for being funny - but Seth MacFarlane's talking teddy bear sequel does manage some laughs anyway.

Full Review | Nov 10, 2015

Ted 2 strains to be the synthesis of... what made MacFarlane famous and his deeper creative temperament, and there are moments when that tonal zigging and zagging works. But they are ultimately warring impulses.

| Aug 14, 2015

Ted 2 confirms that Seth MacFarlane really is nowhere near as funny as he thinks.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 12, 2015

Ted 2 is not entirely devoid of comic merit. But it is way off the pace set by its predecessor.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 12, 2015

The disappointment of Ted 2 isn't that the jokes are offensive ... but that they're lame, tired and peculiarly humourless ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 10, 2015

If you liked the first Ted film, which launched Seth MacFarlane's potty-mouthed teddy, you may still find the second offensive, not because of its daft man-child humour, but its ill-judged attempt at comic racism.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 9, 2015

I can only say that whatever career notes MacFarlane has hit wrong recently, the Teds aren't among them.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 9, 2015

It's hard to tell what, if anything, MacFarlane set out to achieve with Ted 2.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 7, 2015

The movie is so indifferently plotted that it soon becomes a bore.

| Jul 2, 2015

If you're ready to go with the hit-and-miss flow, you'll laugh your ass off.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 2, 2015

Even when the film is being tart and lowdown, you question how deep MacFarlane's own vulgar roots really go.

| Jul 1, 2015

If you liked the original Ted, Seth MacFarlane's 2012 surprise smash about a pot-smoking, potty-mouthed teddy bear, then you will probably like Ted 2. It is essentially the exact same movie, and more - and less.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 28, 2015

In a way, it's pitiable more than anything.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 26, 2015

For a movie that pretends to address issues of what it means to be human, "Ted 2" is soulless at its core, a pure product.

| Original Score: D+ | Jun 26, 2015

[Seth MacFarlane's] sense of humor generally bodes about as well for moviegoers as a dorsal fin does for swimmers.

| Jun 26, 2015

Gross-out, juvenile, misogynistic, racist, homophobic, marijuana-philic, oh-no-they-didn't jokes, pretending to be comedy.

| Original Score: C | Jun 25, 2015

I laughed a lot, if infrequently. Is a ballplayer who whiffs four balls but knocks the fifth one 500 feet worth watching? I say yes.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 25, 2015

Mostly though, "Ted 2" feels like far too many other sequels: born of box office expectations more than a bona fide reason to return to the characters we loved the first time around.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.0 | Jun 25, 2015

While "Ted 2" is absurd and occasionally disgusting, it is also wickedly funny.

| Jun 25, 2015