Seth McFarlane's Ted (2012)

Basq · 02-04-2012 11:19am #1

Hey Seth McFarlane, the creators of 'Wilfred' want their idea back! :pac:

Will be released in the US in July..

Directed and written by Family Guy / American Dad creator Seth McFarlane and stars Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis and Joel McHale.

I did like the standard chick flick beginning of the trailer being turned on it's head.. but yeah, can't help but think of 'Wilfred' throughout it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxKfC77XAp8

Mickeroo · 02-04-2012 11:35am

Hopefully all the funny bits aren't just in the trailer, I laughed my ass off at that.

Colmo52 · 02-04-2012 12:03pm

Ted is basically his Peter Griffin voice.

Basq · 02-04-2012 12:13pm

Colmo52 wrote: »

Ted is basically his Peter Griffin voice.

Closer to Brian IMO..

Mickeroo · 02-04-2012 12:27pm

Basq wrote: »

Closer to Brian IMO..

Nah Brian is a much more lower tone, i think Brian is just Set Macfarlane's normal voice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc-yl_8ywiU

baalthor · 02-04-2012 12:41pm

It's more a harder version of the standard Peter voice; although Peter has a number of different voices.

The movie looks funny enough from the clip and it has a lot of Mila Kunis which is a good thing

Skinfull · 02-04-2012 12:55pm

Looks good and infinitely better than Wilfred. Didn't rate that show at all.
I just hope we havent seen all the best bits.

Basq · 02-04-2012 12:56pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

Nah Brian is a much more lower tone, i think Brian is just Set Macfarlane's normal voice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc-yl_8ywiU

It does seem to vary in the trailer IMO..

When Ted first runs into the room = Peter.
On the couch smoking = Brian

Squelchy · 02-04-2012 3:06pm

Because it was almost entirely unamusing.

Wahlberg trying to guess the name was really good though.

Melion · 02-04-2012 3:51pm

Wow, that looks horrendous

ziedth · 02-04-2012 4:42pm

I like the look of it but then i like Family Guy\American Dad. Guessing the name clip did make me laugh.

02-04-2012 4:47pm

Not a fan of McFarlane's work to date, it's all been far to similiar for my liking but I do like Wahlberg and the idea so I'll most likely give this a go. Kind of film I can go to with no expectations at all.

Duggy747 · 02-04-2012 4:56pm

McFarlane sure does like to get mileage with his pot jokes.

Hurr, hurr, a teddy bear smoking pot, hurr, hurr.

Not a fan of McFarlane at all but I'll probably give this a shot.

johnny_ultimate · 02-04-2012 5:01pm

I hate Seth McFarlane and what he's done to comedy.

So colour me uninterested.

MisterAnarchy · 02-04-2012 6:13pm

I was actually looking forward to this film until Mark the plank Wahlberg was cast in it.
How this man gets work is truly baffling especially comedy work ,he is dreadful .
Trailer was very underwhelming .

pixelburp · 02-04-2012 7:02pm

Swearing is FUNNY! :rolleyes: Remember when comedy writers actually had to use some wit?

Looks a pretty weak film to be honest, with precisely one gag / premise. To be expected with Seth McFarlane these days though ... first contender for next year's Razzies perchance?

I still tune in to McFarlane's work if it's on the TV, but I lost admiration for his shows years ago - possibly because around then he ran out of unique or funny ideas. And maybe it's just me, but it feels like what was once funny in a risqué sort of fashion, the Family Guy jokes now seem to be actually racist.

Mickeroo · 02-04-2012 7:09pm

pixelburp wrote: »

I still tune in to McFarlane's work if it's on the TV, but I lost admiration for his shows years ago - possibly because around then he ran out of unique or funny ideas. And maybe it's just me, but it feels like what was once funny in a risqué sort of fashion, the Family Guy jokes now seem to be actually racist.

If taken out of context maybe, but you could say the same about the majority of South Park (far superior show to Family Guy imo) and even the Simpsons in some cases.

WatchWolf · 02-04-2012 7:49pm

Does this sort of remind anyone of "Paul"?

Skerries · 02-04-2012 10:51pm

Todd Unctious

Skerries · 02-04-2012 10:51pm

WatchWolf wrote: »

Does this sort of remind anyone of "Paul"?

no because Ted isn't real!

pixelburp · 02-04-2012 11:01pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

If taken out of context maybe, but you could say the same about the majority of South Park (far superior show to Family Guy imo) and even the Simpsons in some cases.

Ah no, it's within context that I'm speaking of: as fond of nonsequiturs as McFarlane is, these days he seems too keen to throw in a lot of jibes at jews / african-americans that feel a bit past the point of ironic-mocking. Dunno, maybe I've just grown out of his style of humour. Trailer still sucks though

krudler · 02-04-2012 11:24pm

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

I was actually looking forward to this film until Mark the plank Wahlberg was cast in it.
How this man gets work is truly baffling especially comedy work ,he is dreadful .
Trailer was very underwhelming .

he fantastic in The Other Guys though

JP Liz V1 · 02-04-2012 11:29pm

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

I was actually looking forward to this film until Mark the plank Wahlberg was cast in it.
How this man gets work is truly baffling especially comedy work ,he is dreadful .
Trailer was very underwhelming .

I thought he did well in The Other Guys much better than comedy veteran Will Ferrell

Shryke · 02-04-2012 11:33pm

This looks so bad! Where's the funny side of this? Seth could at least do a voice that's a bit further away from Peter Griffin. He sounds way too much like Peter. God I hate Family Guy these days! Yet still like American Dad... hmmm. A bit like Futurama and The Simpsons me thinks.
I can't see this being much funnier than Garfield but I would obviously like to be wrong.

MisterAnarchy · 02-04-2012 11:37pm

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

I thought he did well in The Other Guys much better than comedy veteran Will Ferrell

I thought he did well in The Other Guys much better than comedy veteran Will Ferrell

I didnt like him in it,he was his usual mono expression self.
The film would have been alot better with a better actor.
The ironic thing is that he showed promise earlier in his career in "The Basketball Diaries" but he has been on a downward slide ever since.
You'd get better acting skills out of a door.

abouttobebanned · 02-04-2012 11:37pm

Lot of hate in this thread.

Mickeroo · 02-04-2012 11:45pm

Skerries wrote: »

no because Ted isn't real!

I think he is, it looks like they're going for that Family Guy style situation where Brian is a dog, does dog things yet still walks around talking and acting like a human.

Tallon · 03-04-2012 9:31am

This is going to be unreal

Long time since I laughed my ass off at a trailer

Welsh Megaman · 03-04-2012 10:57am

YOU THINK THAT'S BEEEEEED?!

REMEMBER THE TIME MY TEDDY BEAR STARTED TALKING TO ME?

happyman81 · 03-04-2012 11:00am

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

I was actually looking forward to this film until Mark the plank Wahlberg was cast in it.
How this man gets work is truly baffling especially comedy work ,he is dreadful .
Trailer was very underwhelming .

I thought he did well in The Other Guys much better than comedy veteran Will Ferrell

Gator's biatches best be wearing jimmys!

tony1kenobi · 03-04-2012 5:05pm

Why didn't he just go ahead and call Marky Marks character Stewie and the bear Rupert?

BlitzKrieg · 03-04-2012 8:20pm

Guessing the name clip did make me laugh.

Shame its a rehash of the only funny joke he has done in the last five years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErPsx8zdnX4

MrStuffins · 04-04-2012 2:00am

Since when did it become hipster to hate on McFarlane?

I saw the teailer this evening, thought it was hilarious! Laughed my ass off at the girl naming bit. looking forward to seeing this.

RobbingBandit · 04-04-2012 2:23am

August 3rd over here, looks very good.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637725/

BarackPyjama · 04-04-2012 5:55am

Hipster idiots hate stuff.

pixelburp · 04-04-2012 8:11am

MrStuffins wrote: »

Since when did it become hipster to hate on McFarlane?
[...]

Since when did it become hipster to dismiss fair criticism of a one-note comic as hipster?

Marty McFly · 04-04-2012 8:27am

pixelburp wrote: »

Since when did it become hipster to dismiss fair criticism of a one-note comic as hipster?

A one note comic whos the creator of Family Guy which has been running since 1999, American Dad since 2005 and The Cleveland Show since 2009 all successful in the own right, and a man whose now branching out into films with Ted and whose also become the roastmaster for Comedy Centrals Roasts and done a great job, thats some one note

.

pixelburp · 04-04-2012 8:41am

luvbulmers01 wrote: »

A one note comic whos the creator of Family Guy which has been running since 1999, American Dad since 2005 and The Cleveland Show since 2009 all successful in the own right, and a man whose now branching out into films with Ted and whose also become the roastmaster for Comedy Centrals Roasts and done a great job, thats some one note .

Really? That show is frigging terrible. And The Simpsons has been running for even longer, but no-one would claim the show is even a shadow of its former self; length of time is no indicator here. To me, Family Guy's the exact same- what was funny is now just the same schtick with less laughs. To be fair, the later series of American Dad have been funny, but that's probably just Roger making up for the rest of the cast

MrStuffins · 04-04-2012 9:29am

pixelburp wrote: »

Since when did it become hipster to dismiss fair criticism of a one-note comic as hipster?

Sure, there's some fair criticism

But a lot of it stinks of hipsterism, surely you see that?

Dermighty · 04-04-2012 11:10am

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

YOU THINK THAT'S BEEEEEED?!

REMEMBER THE TIME MY TEDDY BEAR STARTED TALKING TO ME?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4ABTOTW7aY

johnny_ultimate · 04-04-2012 11:14am

Watch one episode of Family Guy and you've pretty much seen everything Seth McFarlane has to offer comedy: every joke, every character, every inability to write a comic storyline. This isn't a 'hipster' opinion, it's the voice of someone who hates seeing bad comedy (admittedly subjective) triumphed by a lot of people. He's sure as hell no Larry David or Louie C.K.

Clanket · 04-04-2012 11:22am

Maybe you just don't have a sense of humour?

pixelburp · 04-04-2012 11:35am

*facepalm*

Mickeroo · 04-04-2012 12:39pm

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Watch one episode of Family Guy and you've pretty much seen everything Seth McFarlane has to offer comedy: every joke, every character, every inability to write a comic storyline. This isn't a 'hipster' opinion, it's the voice of someone who hates seeing bad comedy (admittedly subjective) triumphed by a lot of people. He's sure as hell no Larry David or Louie C.K.

Different type of comedy to those guys completely in fairness, not a fair comparison. I agree he's one note though, Family Guy, American Dad and Cleveland are all pretty much copies of the same formula. I think South Park hit the nail on the head with how they criticised family guy in cartoon wars but having said that the first 3 seasons were brilliant.

Boom_Bap · 04-04-2012 1:07pm

When I saw the trailer, the first thing that came into my head was Wilfred except others can see Ted.

But i did laugh and thought Marky Mark was great from the trailer.

Seth McFarlanes voice only bothers me when I see him talking and squinting in real life.

humanji · 04-04-2012 8:34pm

I wouldn't put American Dad in the same category as Family Guy and the Cleveland Show. I can't stand Family Guy. It has it's moments, but not enough to keep me watching. The Dad is the main character and the others have one quirk which is repeated each episode. South Park was spot on with how it was originally. The writers caught on though and changed things up, even alluding to how the old episodes were so repetitive.

American Dad's characters seem a bit more rounded. and I think the actual writing of the episodes is a lot better (other than McFarlane, the main writer's are different. So that might be it).

I can fully see why people don't like McFarlane's comedy though.

As for Ted, I thought the trailer was hilarious. I love Wahlberg in comedies. He's still as over the top intense as he is in action movies, but now you're laughing with him instead of at him.

I'm not expecting world shattering stuff, but I'd say it'll be more than a good laugh.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 04-04-2012 9:41pm

american dad started off alright but it's been awful for the past few seasons. every episode is basically the same story. stan is stupid, stans stupidity is challenged, hijinx, stan learns a lesson.

every now and again they throw roger or steve an episode. steve at least brings something to the table, mainly barry. roger is just like stan, one joke over and over again.

mcmacness · 04-04-2012 10:02pm

Just watched the trailer for this, looks really funny. My type of film, I can't wait.

D'Agger · 05-04-2012 3:41pm

Not sure what to make of this tbh - it looks funny enough but I wasn't laughing too hard at the trailer....will probably watch it but not expecting huge things from it so maybe I'll be pleasantly suprised.

corcaigh07 · 06-04-2012 12:55pm

looks terrible, big mistake that Ted sounds like/is Peter Griffin

Sabre0001 · 06-04-2012 1:00pm

I really enjoyed the two trailers released and I'm looking forward to this. Wahlberg was excellent in The Other Guys and looks like he's right for the part from the trailer too. Fingers crossed it's not a case of everything good appearing in the trailer as said, but I think it should be fun overall.

Not sure why it matters THAT much that it's the same voice from Family Guy. Afterall, Mila Kunis and Mark Wahlberg are using the same voices they've used in practically every performance in their career.

Seth McFarlane's Ted (2012)

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