Ted 2
Universal Pictures | Release Date: June 26, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
48
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Mixed or average reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
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11
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17
Negative:
10
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallJun 24, 2015
Ted 2 isn't cinematically special; the plot structure and shot framing is identical to MacFarlane's animated TV shows. But my god, is it funny. Trashy, nasty as it wants to be funny. Wake up the next day still giggling funny. Yes, that funny. Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternJun 25, 2015
In a movie devoted mainly to making you laugh, it’s a plea for tolerance that takes your breath away. Read full review
80
Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekJun 24, 2015
MacFarlane's comedy may not be sophisticated on its face, but the mechanisms behind it are delicately calibrated. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJun 25, 2015
Writer-director Seth MacFarlane is like some weird combination of a stupid, dirty-minded teenager and a brilliant comic master. His impulses are sophomoric, but he knows where to find the punch line, and he hits it, again and again. Read full review
75
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsJun 25, 2015
One man’s mirth is another man’s poison, this critic can only consult his belly as the barometer. On a gut level, Ted 2 is a funny film. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesRebecca KeeganJun 25, 2015
While Ted 2 is absurd and occasionally disgusting, it is also wickedly funny. Read full review
70
SalonAndrew O'HehirJun 25, 2015
In its better, non-jizz-related moments, Ted 2 is a loosey-goosey stoner road trip with an irrelevant, appealing blend of innocence and sweetness: John and Sam doing a “Walk Like an Egyptian” dance number in the law library, for no particular reason, or the “Law & Order” theme-song lyrics, a bit of brilliant standup material stuck in the middle of a movie. Read full review
70
VarietyScott FoundasJun 24, 2015
Both “Ted” movies are, ultimately, one-joke affairs rooted in the idea of taking some emblem of childhood innocence and vulgarizing it.... That joke, though, turns out to be a resilient one, and the chemistry between Wahlberg and MacFarlane is infectiously puerile. Read full review
67
Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanJul 9, 2015
McFarlane’s at his best when he breaks new ground.... Yet too many things get repeated from “Ted.” Read full review
63
New York PostKyle SmithJun 25, 2015
Ted 2 has so many mo–ments of crazy brilliance that I laughed a lot, if infrequently. Is a ballplayer who whiffs four balls but knocks the fifth one 500 feet worth watching? I say yes. Read full review
63
Rolling StonePeter TraversJun 25, 2015
If you're ready to go with the hit-and-miss flow, you'll laugh your ass off. Read full review
60
Time OutDavid EhrlichJun 25, 2015
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. Read full review
60
The GuardianJordan HoffmanJun 24, 2015
The Ted franchise is perhaps unstoppable if MacFarlane sets his sights a bit lower, finds a way to streamline the plot mechanics and just give moviegoers what they never knew they wanted: time hanging out with a foul-mouthed anthropomorphised soft toy. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckJun 24, 2015
Ted's Boston-accented zingers are expertly delivered by the director/star, whose voice talent is undeniable, and Wahlberg again demonstrates that he's skilled at comedy. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Jun 24, 2015
Either way, Ted 2 strikes a sometimes-awkward balance between sincerity and cheap provocation. It also forgets that the real draw of the first film wasn’t Ted himself, but Wahlberg, whose sweet-lug routine scored a lot of belly laughs. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyJun 24, 2015
The sequel still manages to walk the tightrope between clever and crass. For a while, at least. Read full review
58
HitfixDrew McWeenyJun 24, 2015
Like most comedy sequels, it is too long and too indulgent in calling back to the original film. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliJun 26, 2015
It would be disingenuous for me to claim that Ted 2 isn't funny. Although I was often bored by the plodding direction of the story, I laughed from time-to-time. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyJun 25, 2015
She (Seyfried) provides some real charm, something the movie otherwise lacks. She also seems like a plausible part of the action in a way that Kunis never did. Read full review
50
Portland OregonianJeff BakerJun 25, 2015
Maybe it's too early to say MacFarlane can't make a movie. He's still young, he's compulsively creative. He'll keep getting more chances. He could figure it out, but I don't think I want to watch him try. Read full review
50
USA TodayBrian TruittJun 25, 2015
Ted 2 locks into a nice groove whenever it's just Ted and John being buds (and smoking bud), and Seyfried actually adds to the chemistry. If only the nonstop parade of craziness and lack of story coherence around them wasn't so hard to bear. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJun 24, 2015
I laughed three or four times, mostly at verbal byplay since director MacFarlane struggles when it comes to timing, filming and cutting sight gags. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJun 24, 2015
Ted 2 feels like far too many other sequels: born of box office expectations more than a bona fide reason to return to the characters we loved the first time around. Read full review
40
EmpireOlly RichardsJul 6, 2015
Less fun than last time and oddly unpleasant in its tone. MacFarlane takes potshots at everyone he can find, while shielding the two characters that deserve it most. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriJun 25, 2015
The trouble is, lazy, opportunistic writing can be distracting in its own way, and there’s way too much of it in Ted 2 to fully ignore. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovJun 24, 2015
The outcome is no great surprise, and plenty of the gags feel as though they were meant to be throwaways, but Ted 2, exactly like its predecessor, has plenty of heart, which makes all the rest of the black-dick jokes marginally more tolerable. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJun 24, 2015
The film, like most of MacFarlane's work, is a mix of occasional laugh-out-loud moments — there are some here — and cringe-worthy misfires that play a lot more tone-deaf than he seems to intend. Read full review
40
TheWrapDan CallahanJun 24, 2015
Bad taste needs to be more honest and more all-inclusive if it’s to make a lasting impression, and MacFarlane’s bad taste here is both too wishy-washy and too knee-jerk cruel to really make any impact. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyJun 25, 2015
Aside from race jokes, Ted 2 offers a nearly staggering number of weed jokes, a couple of which are mildly funny, or at least funnier than the rape jokes. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreJun 24, 2015
The acquired taste that is Seth MacFarlane is harder to acquire and the one joke in his one-joke comedy about the pot-smoking/potty-mouthed teddy bear wears thin in the endless two hours of Ted 2. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineChris CabinJun 24, 2015
The film is a redundant showcase for Seth MacFarlane's racy, dick-centric sense of humor. Read full review
30
The DissolveGenevieve KoskiJun 25, 2015
Where Ted managed a respectable ratio of clever (or at least transcendently dumb) gags to lazy/offensive ones, Ted 2 is a repetitive, self-congratulatory slog, dragged down by a haphazard plot and the same third-act problems that ultimately sunk the first film. Read full review
30
Screen DailyGraham FullerJun 24, 2015
Ted 2 is as subtle as a frat-house flick. Read full review
25
Washington PostAnn HornadayJun 25, 2015
As he proved with his misbegotten A Million Ways to Die in the West, MacFarlane is essentially a guy who’s gotten appallingly lucky on television. He exhibits zero proficiency in cinematic staging and no sense of pace. Read full review
25
The PlaylistDrew TaylorJun 24, 2015
Ted 2 gives lip service to civil liberties and spends the rest of the running time picking the easiest joke to tell, again and again and again. Read full review
20
The TelegraphRobbie CollinJul 6, 2015
If every last joke in it wasn’t built on the premise that anyone who isn’t a straight, white, able-bodied, middle-class male isn’t intrinsically laughable, it might have made for lively comedy. Read full review
20
The New York TimesManohla DargisJun 25, 2015
Mr. MacFarlane can be funny, but Ted 2 is insultingly lazy hack work that is worth discussing primarily because of how he tries and fails to turn race, and specifically black men, into comedy fodder. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsJacob HallJun 24, 2015
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. Read full review
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