While the first Ted movie was a novel idea and gave us a couple of laughs this re-hash misses much more than it hits. Ted is now getting married while John (Mark Wahlberg) is now divorced and is even more of a slacker than he was in the first movie. While Ted and his new wife are trying to adopt a baby it come to the fore that Ted is not actually registered as a person and thus has no rights so Ted and John look for the best legal representation in town but instead end up with Sam (Amanda Seyfried) an novice, idealistic young stoner lawyer (insert joke here) who’s full name is Samantha L Jackson (insert joke here) that agrees to take the case.

I can’t doubt Seth MacFarlanes comedic talent and as a big lover of Family Guy I have high expectations for projects he gets involved in but for all the giggling the first may have conjured there’s very little here to warrant a laugh. Instead we get the expected list of fart, weed, race and sex jokes, interspersed with celebrity cameos and re-workings of the first movie with both Flash Gordon (Sam Jones) making a return and the same Giovanni Ribisi kidnapping premise being re-used. We also get Ted dance routines and musical numbers which may work well in short snippets during a short TV show but offer nothing in a feature film about a talking bear. It just felt like the movie was developed around the jokes that were on the table and then the first movie was used as filler to pad out the story for the remaining running time and the fact that they got actors like Liam Neeson and Morgan Freeman involved is criminal. Although to give him credit, Neesons’ scene is probably the funniest one in the whole movie.

One of the other few vaguely humorous sections of the movie is where Ted finds an enormous amount of pornography on Johns laptop and instead of wiping it off (insert joke here) they take to smashing the laptop to pieces and burying it at the bottom of the river. This is probably the best course of action that I could have took with this film as well, I hope they leave well enough alone and don’t have us endure a Ted 3.

DJ Speaks Rating: 3.5 Out Of 10