ted is not for everyone, I will grant you that.
Sprung forth from the creative loins of Seth McFarlane, the man who gave us Family Guy and American Dad, all packed to the gasp-inducing rafters with more weird journeys into the twisted parts of his imaginative psyche than we actually knew we needed or wanted, ted is, ahem, coming together with all the uninhibited, politically-incorrect raunch that made his first outing such a cinematic success.
This time around, ted is not just in love but getting married to his sweetheart Tammy-Lynn (Jessica Barth), by no less than Flash Gordon aka Sam Jones himself and looking to start a family.
But hark I hear you say, and yes those bugging devices in your couch are working a treat, how can a teddy bear, even a talking one, made of stuffing and synthetic fur, procreate given his all too obvious lack of DNA?
Why by artificial insemination of course, a pregnancy strategy that you can be assured will result in all manner of lewd, tasteless and frankly hilarious jokes if the trailer is any indication.
Of course, nothing is every simple in life and ted, voiced by Seth McFarlane, must fight to prove he has a soul, is a real person and thus fit to be a father to an impressionable young child (you can be guaranteed this won’t be your everyday court battle with James Earl Jones as a soul music-loving judge).
Returning for another dose of ted’s bear-it-all (yes that was a deliberate misspelling) style is best pal and sperm donor John Bennett (Mark Wahlberg) – sadly without Lori Collins (Mila Kunis) although her absence does allow for a new love interest in the form of ted’s lawyer Samantha Jackson (Amanda Seyfried) – John’s co-worker Guy (Patrick Warburton), and Jessica Barth as the teddy bear lovestruck Tammy-Lynn along with new additions Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman and John Slattery.
It will be so wrong that it will be oh-so-right, and while not all of McFarlane’s hit the joke bullseye (some just hit the cringe-o-meter), enough do that sitting down to watch ted will be a case of dial-down-the-outrage, go with the raunchy flow and enjoy all the insane craziness, and yes heart and soul (you’ll be surprised how much of “the feels” ted can summon) of ted coming again.
Ted 2 opens in Australia on 25 June 2015 and in USA on 26 June.
Here’s the full trailer …
And the hilarious Tom Brady-starring Super Bowl spot …