"Show Her 'Yer Chevron Card!"

The big question of the "Ted" trailer was "is this funny without the profanity?" The general-release trailer says: "Pretty much, yeah;" though it does appear to have the "you have now seen the whole movie" problem...



I like the red-band better, less for the profanity and more for how great the build-up/fake-out/payoff reveal of Ted plays out; but this one obviously does a better job explaining the "E.T./Hobbes/Elliot sticks around and becomes the immature holding-you-back buddy from an Apatow movie" premise - which I still think is kind of inspired. I really hope they've already licensed a Talking Ted, because that will be a big grown-up gift later this year...

I can't decide if it's more of an asset or flaw that this is so clearly the Seth MacFarlane Comfort-Zone in live-action - i.e. Ted/Whalberg are so very much Peter/Brian or Stan/Roger, Kunis turning up and Patrick Stewart doing his best Patrick Stewart Narration parody - but the bear legitimately cracks me up. Plus, it looks like they went to the New England Aquarium, so that's pretty awesome.