New Ted 2 Movie Got Mixed Reviews From Top Critics

New Ted 2 movie got mixed reviews from top critics. Universal Studios released their new comedy flick, “Ted 2,” into theaters today, June 26th, 2015, and all the reviews are in from the top movie critics in the business. It turns out that it was a pretty mixed bag with an overall 49 score out of a possible 100 across 34 reviews at Metacritic.com.

The movie stars: Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Mark Wahlberg, Dennis Haysbert, Amanda Seyfried, Mila Kunis, Seth MacFarlane and Jessica Barth. We’ve added blurbs from a couple of the critics,below.

Joe Morgenstern from the Wall Street Journal, gave it an 80 score, stating: ” In a movie devoted mainly to making you laugh, it’s a plea for tolerance that takes your breath away.”

Mick LaSalle at the San Francisco Chronicle, gave it a 75 score, stating: “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.”

Rebecca Keegan from the Los Angeles Times, gave it a 70 grade. She said: ” While Ted 2 is absurd and occasionally disgusting, it is also wickedly funny.”

Scott Foundas from Variety, gave it a 70 score, saying: “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.”

Kyle Smith from the New York Post, gave it a 63 score, claiming: “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.”

Peter Travers from Rolling Stone, gave it a 63 grade, saying: “If you’re ready to go with the hit-and-miss flow, you’ll laugh your ass off.”

Frank Scheck from The Hollywood Reporter, gave it a 60 score. He said: “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.”

Chris Nashawaty from Entertainment Weekly, gave it a 58 grade, saying: “The sequel still manages to walk the tightrope between clever and crass. For a while, at least.”

Mark Feeney at the Boston Globe, gave it a 50 score. He said; “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.”

Brian Truitt from USA Today, gave it a 50 score, claiming: “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.”

Michael Phillips at the Chicago Tribune, gave it a 50 grade. He stated: “I laughed three or four times, mostly at verbal byplay since director MacFarlane struggles when it comes to timing, filming and cutting sight gags.”

Richard Roeper over at the Chicago Sun-Times, gave it a 50 grade, stating: “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.”

Dan Callahan over at TheWrap, gave it a 40 grade, saying: “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.”

Glenn Kenny from RogerEbert.com, gave it a 38 score. He said: “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.”

Ann Hornaday at the Washington Post, gave it a 25 score, saying: “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.”

Manohla Dargis from The New York Times, gave it a 20 score, stating: “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.”

Lastly, Jacob Hall from the New York Daily News, gave it a 20 score, claiming: “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.” Stay tuned. Follow us on Facebook by Clicking Here. Follow us on Google Plus by Clicking Here. Follow us on Twitter by Clicking Here.

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