when it comes to everything else that goes into a real screenplay - developing characters who change and deepen, or even just creating incidents that lead logically into the next - MacFarlane's terminally clueless
MacFarlane's preference for quantity over quality results in a lot of dead air, but the gags that land are howlers, and all of its crudeness (and racism, and sexism, and homophobia, etc.), the movie beats with a real heart
MacFarlane couldn't have known about the timing when he was making the movie, but honestly, would this ever have been funny? (And please don't tell me I'm a prude. I love raunchy humor - when it's funny)
"Ted 2" is the equivalent of a middle school bully. It's not as funny as it thinks it is. Its penchant for casual cruelty masks a hollow soul. And it will be totally forgotten once we move onto bigger and better things
by Stephen Whitty [Newark Star-Ledger ]
by David Ehrlich [Time Out New York ]
by Jacob Hall [NY Daily News ]
by Tony Hicks [San Jose Mercury News ]
