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Ever wonder what that adorable little sprite who broke all our hearts, Freddie Highmore, looks like today?


Then:

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Still pretty youthful looking at 20:


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Really? I need to go deeper with my Ted analysis?

Well let's see. I had a number of laughs but then there were a (larger?) number of attempts at humor that fell flat. The crude Teddy Bear angle - like ohmygawd it's a Teddy Bear who likes dope and sex. That's so unlike how Teddy Bears are typically thought of! It's a repeated joke which didn't get egregiously overplayed in this movie. But I don't have high hopes for the sequel. How many times can you tell the same joke?

The story is a piece of predictable formulaic fluff. And it all culminates in a wedding? That is the ultimate happy ending? What year is this? Ehh, I guess they've got to please the chicks too and some will go for that but speaking for myself: ugh!

And who's that Flash Gordon dude? That was one prolonged reference that I had no connection to. Not that it was really necessary to be inside on that - I guess I got the general idea. But I didn't know how to feel about it.

I wanted more Tom Skerritt.

But whatever, it was not what I would call painful to watch. There were more laughs for me than most movies. There was some Family Guy style laughs that came out of funny dialogue that I enjoyed. But as far as the humor of the actual story: not much.

Not a disastrous effort but I can't actually give it a thumbs up. 4.9 out of 10
 
I don't know if I have seen a whole American Pie movie. I don't think so.

Were they known for crude bathroom humor? I recall them being reasonably well received by critics. At least the first one.

I don't know.

Ted was not too bad for the toilet humor. There was one episode but they did build some actual humor around it. It was not strictly a case of gross-out being used in lieu of actual comedy writing. Come to think of it, there was a fart gag a bit later that had a payoff that made me laugh.

Mostly though, Ted is a pretty by-the-numbers romantic comedy. It's not particularly edgy. I wouldn't quite call it family viewing but it's not off by a million miles.
 
Trouble With the Curve Good but no Grand Turino. One time watch. Clint just makes good flicks anymore. The guy from "I know what you did last Summer" has quite the hairline damn genetics will get you every time.

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FYI if anyone wants to chat on XBox we're smashed and we'll be up. It's Peppyplace02 fokkin Microsoft gave us that name and it's BS.
 
So I was looking over Coppola's filmography. I didn't realize he directed Jack, that god awful movie where Robin Williams plays a kid trapped in an adult's body.

How the fuck did the man responsible for historically great films such as GF1, GF2, Conversation, and Apocalypse Now stoop so low?
 
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