The greatest compliment I can pay Seth MacFarlane's Ted is that although this is essentially one of those slacker, stoner comedies, and such comedies aren't really my thing... this did make me laugh quite a bit.

| Sep 1, 2018

It is a film that seems to have an endless middle.

| Jun 28, 2013

There's just enough mileage in the gag to keep the movie spluttering through an energetic series of pop-cultural references and broadly staged orgies of profanity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 3, 2012

Laughter doesn't lie. I loved Ted and found it irresistibly funny and hugely enjoyable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 3, 2012

Ted has nothing much to offer in terms of subtlety and sensitivity, but there are plenty of laughs.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 2, 2012

The film will probably be funnier if you go with a beer, a friend or perhaps - who knows? - your own dissolute soft toy companion.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 2, 2012

This is ersatz subversion for an audience secretly terrified of the real thing.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 1, 2012

Sure, MacFarlane, you can make us laugh, but it's time to grow up. Seriously.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2012

The bear done good.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2012

Crass, supremely silly and very, very funny, Ted is the comedy of the summer.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2012

Everything goes on too long -- Ted's carousing, Lori's watchful waiting, John's wistful indecision.

Full Review | Jun 30, 2012

It's a goofy premise pursued with crass -- as well as sentimental -- relish.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 29, 2012

You'll feel the warmth and camaraderie of a Bostonian and his little sentient bear.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 29, 2012

I tried to resist but couldn't.

| Jun 29, 2012

As unabashedly idiotic movie comedies go, Ted goes fairly well.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 29, 2012

"Ted" is so lazy you want to kick the stuffing out of it.

| Original Score: D | Jun 29, 2012

Underneath the matted fur of the movie's foul-mouthed bear beats a very real heart.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 29, 2012

The plot is simply a shaky frame on which to hang drug and sex jokes and numerous pop-culture references.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 29, 2012

I expected "Ted" to be a one-joke movie, but it's got ideas spilling out of its seams.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 29, 2012

What began as a promising, if unhinged, experiment in suspending disbelief starts to feel like "You, Me and Dupree" for plushies.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 29, 2012