Ted

A movie about a talking teddy bear that lives with Mark Walhberg and does nothing but party and talk sass, who wouldn't love this?  Add to the mix that it's written by Seth Macfarlane of Family Guy fame and that he is the voice-over for the bear, and now we are getting into possible Borat funny range.

Unfortunately I over-hyped it in my mind and watched too many of the trailers and extras, so I had seen most of the good stuff before the movie even began. That said, it's still a funny movie, that is well played by Whalberg and Mila Kunis.

The fun twist is that the bear is real, not treated like an imaginary character, so outsiders interact with him and he becomes a celebrity, with an appearance on Johnny Carson. When we get to the meat of the film he is more like a former child star than an animated child's toy. This is what makes the film work, because everything else about the film is cliche: best friend vs. girlfriend, dumb guy with hot girl, loveable slacker wins in the end, etc.

Bottom line: this would be a excellent rental or DVD purchase as it is funny and the kind of thing you could watch a few times, but not necessarily a must for in-theater viewing.