Ted 2 (2015)

Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.

Director:

Seth MacFarlane

Writers:

Seth MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin

Stars:

Mark Wahlberg, Seth MacFarlane, Amanda Seyfried

3 wins & 4 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Mark Wahlberg	...	John
Seth MacFarlane	...	Ted (voice)
Amanda Seyfried	...	Samantha
Jessica Barth	...	Tami-Lynn
Giovanni Ribisi	...	Donny
Morgan Freeman	...	Patrick Meighan
Sam J. Jones	...	Himself
Patrick Warburton	...	Guy
Michael Dorn	...	Rick
Bill Smitrovich	...	Frank
John Slattery	...	Shep Wild
Cocoa Brown	...	Joy
John Carroll Lynch	...	Tom Jessup
Ron Canada	...	Judge
Liam Neeson	...	Customer

Storyline

Months after John's divorce, Ted and Tami-Lynn's marriage seems to be on the same road. To patch things up, Ted and Tami-Lynn plan to have a child with John's help, but their failed efforts backfire disastrously. Namely, Ted is declared property by the government, and he loses all of his civil rights. Now, Ted must fight a seemingly hopeless legal battle with an inexperienced young lawyer to regain his rightful legal status. Unfortunately, between Ted's drunken idiocies and sinister forces interested in this situation to exploit him, Ted's quest has all the odds against him.

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Plot Keywords:

lawyer | fight | scene after end credits | trial | talking teddy bear | 

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Taglines:

Ted is coming, again

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Genres:

Comedy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for crude and sexual content, pervasive language, and some drug use

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Japan]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

26 June 2015 (USA)

Also Known As:

Ted 2

Filming Locations:

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$68,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$33,507,870, 28 June 2015

Gross USA:

$81,476,385

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$215,863,606

Company Credits

Production Co:

Universal Pictures, Media Rights Capital (MRC), Fuzzy Door Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

115 min 125 min (unrated)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital Datasat SDDS Dolby Surround 7.1

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.39 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

When Ted is driving, he re-creates the classic John Candy scene from Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987).

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Goofs

A large destructive fight breaks out on the floor of Comic-Con. After Ted is rescued, there is absolutely no evidence of disorder when the characters return to the floor seconds later.

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Quotes

Frank: [Unrated version only] You had sexual intercourse on a pile of raw hamburger meat that we're supposed to sell to the public for their Fourth of July barbecues.
Ted: I fucked her with a pack of Freedent. Then I put it back on the shelf and a senior citizen bought it.
Frank: That took guts. We need guts. I'm naming the store after you.

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Crazy Credits

Liam Neeson returns to the grocery store battered and bruised and returns his ruined box of Trix.

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Alternate Versions

For some North America TV airings, the f words are either dubbed over or silenced and Amanda's penis bong is censored with pixelization.

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Connections

References Rocky (1976)

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Soundtracks

One Foot In Front Of The Other
from Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
Written by Marc Levinthal, Scott Wilk
Performed by Bone Symphony
Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

User Reviews

Funny but the plot develops poorly.

Ted 2 does exactly what it set out to do. It delivers a bunch of laughs built primarily on crude, in-your-face humor and it doesn't take itself too seriously. Seth MacFarlane proves once again that he has his finger firmly on the pulse of his target demographic because the theater was in stitches throughout most of the film. That being said, a comedy doesn't have to sacrifice cinema in order to deliver laughs. I think the first movie was a prime example of that, as it was a genuinely good movie in addition to being hilarious. Instead, MacFarlane turns this movie into a live-action version of Family Guy. The plot is choppy and it essentially feels like a series of random skits, pieced together to form the semblance of some over-arcing plot. It was easily worth watching because it was hilarious but I expected a quality film closer to that of the first one.