Ted 2

"Thunder buddies for life."

2015 1h 55m EN

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6.3

MID

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45%

ROTTEN

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METACRITIC

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6.3

IMDB

★6.3TMDB · 8,205🥫45%Rotten Tomatoes●48Metacritic★6.3IMDB · 258,061

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Synopsis

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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.

“Thunder buddies for life.”

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Cast

Mark Wahlberg
John
Seth MacFarlane
Ted (voice)
Amanda Seyfried
Samantha
Jessica Barth
Tami-Lynn
Giovanni Ribisi
Donny
Morgan Freeman
Patrick Meighan
Sam J. Jones
Sam J. Jones
Patrick Warburton
Guy

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Seth MacFarlane
Writers: Seth MacFarlane, Wellesley Wild, Alec Sulkin
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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1 / 8

MONEY

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Mid-budget at $68M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

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2 / 8

MONEY

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Made its money back 3.2× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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Released 11 years ago.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Ted Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

CAST

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221+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Seth MacFarlane, shot by Michael Barrett. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Walter Murphy. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Jeff Freeman shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Seth MacFarlane directs. Michael Barrett behind the camera. Walter Murphy scores. Jeff Freeman cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Mid-budget at $68M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
2Made its money back 3.2× over at the box office.
3Released 11 years ago.
4Part of the "Ted Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5221+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
6Directed by Seth MacFarlane, shot by Michael Barrett. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by Walter Murphy. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor Jeff Freeman shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Mark Wahlberg and Seth MacFarlane and Amanda Seyfried carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "Thunder buddies for life.".
11IMDB entry: tt2637276 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
12Classified under 8 themes, including "sperm bank", "sequel", "buddy", "courthouse".

The technical file

Cinematography: Michael Barrett
Original score: Walter Murphy
Editing: Jeff Freeman
Production design: Stephen J. Lineweaver
Costume design: Cindy Evans
Makeup / hair: Ginny Colangelo
Stunt coordinator: Scott Rogers
Runtime: 115 min · 1h 55m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $68,000,000
Box office: $215,863,606
Return: 317% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Ted 2 (2015)
Rotten Tomatoes: 45% 🥫 Rotten
Metacritic: 48/100
IMDB rating: 6.3/10 · 258,061 votes
MPAA: R

Awards

3 wins & 4 nominations total

Part of

Ted Collection

Ted is a 2012 American comedy film directed by Seth MacFarlane. The screenplay by MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin, and Wellesley Wild is from MacFarlane's story. The film stars MacFarlane, Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, and with Joel McHale and Giovanni Ribisi in supporting roles, with MacFarlane providing the voice of the titular character. The film tells the story of John Bennett, a Boston native whose childhood wish brings his teddy bear friend Ted to life. However, Ted prevents John and his love interest Lori Collins from moving on with their lives. A sequel, Ted 2, was released on June 26, 2015.

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Reno2015-12-24
★ 6/10
The return wasn't as exciting as the previous one. No surprise why this film failed to excite me, but a few people thinks its a passable sequel. The original movie was atypical, so the success followed it. In my perspective better that should have left as a one-off movie. But as a low budget product, they knew it was going grab back twice, thrice they spent because of the star value and indeed the first film's influence. There is no story, simply based on the usual Hollywood road adventure like the flicks 'Fanboys', 'Dumb and Dumber To', 'Not Suitable for Children' et cetera, except the character Ted which makes this theme a special. A couple of good jokes and that's it, the rest were ineffective, sometime keep repeating the same ones. The 2 hours in a too plain concept, is way too long to sit and watch/focus. The cameos were weak, or maybe worthless/meaningless, especially Liam Neeson's. The best things were the production quality, acting and like I mentioned before, the character Ted. For the one time watch, I think kind of manageable, but definitely not suitable for repeat viewing or to recommend it to the others. But overall, a little disappointed with the outcome. They have got one more chance to end this franchise on a high note as a decent trilogy if the next film gets a better storyline. 6/10
The Movie Diorama2020-01-17
★ 4/10
Ted 2 packs more unhumorous stuffing within its formulaic synthetic fur. MacFarlane is a talented comedian, I’m sure of it. His profusely crude humour captivating millions with his legendary ‘Family Guy’ TV show. Even ‘Ted’ was tolerable to a certain degree, and that’s saying something. Yet here we are, with an inevitable sequel, that essentially felt like a glorified episode of the aforementioned animation. It’s cutaway structure for unrelated gags. Relentless wave of pointless cameos. Ted becoming Peter Griffin. Close your eyes, let the voices infiltrate your senses and you’ll soon realise it’s just ‘Family Guy’, just less funny. Ted now married and struggling to maintain his relationship, has his rights taken away when he is no longer viewed as person but property instead. A particularly strong aspect to this comedy that more or less is the power source of its story, raising a civil rights lesson in ethics and morality. It was so interesting that Morgan Freeman himself got involved and slam dunked the jury with his God-like soothing voice. And despite Seyfried actually picking up the script’s remnants and transforming the scraps into a functional film, it’s utterly forgettable. So much so, that once Wahlberg becomes drowned in rejected semen samples (literally swimming with the sperm...), I experienced a moment of déjà vu (ironically, so did Ted). Surprisingly, I had seen the first half before. Yet it took me a decent forty minutes to encounter this epiphany, that’s how unmemorable this comedy truly is. It exercises all of the same plot points from its predecessor, the inclusion of the mentally unhinged Donny and the friendly break-up between the leads cement this sentiment, and rarely explored new avenues. Sure the friendly chemistry remained intact, but only one or two lines made me frustratingly chuckle, mostly due to Warburton’s comedic execution (urgh, that voice...). Besides that, there’s nothing here. Same old MacFarlane profanity. Worth a squeeze if you enjoyed the first film, but exhausts its preset lines of dialogue extremely rapidly. “I love you”? Eh, please don’t.