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TM<br />
MARK<br />
WAHLBERG AND<br />
HIS TERRIBLE<br />
CHILDHOOD TOY<br />
TED<br />
A VERY DIFFERENT TOY FROM THE MAKER OF TV’S FAMILY GUY<br />
>> Seth MacFarlane makes media at the cross-section of manly and<br />
immature—his juvenile humor is testosterone-heavy but subverts those<br />
things men call sacred. Take Family Guy, the cartoon that notoriously<br />
once put Jesus in jail. After making his mark on TV, MacFarlane makes<br />
his directorial debut which stars Mark Wahlberg as John, a slacker with<br />
the aggression of a grown-up and the habits of a high school freshman. As<br />
a child, he wished his favorite teddy bear would come to life. It did, and<br />
even into his adulthood, his living, breathing, swearing, belching bear still<br />
accompanies him, cracking jokes when things get too real and generally<br />
impeding his owner’s maturation. But one thing or another turns boys<br />
to men, and here it’s Lori (Mila Kunis), a hottie worth growing up for.<br />
And so John has to choose—as so many men do—between his toys and<br />
future. Imagine Toy Story 3 with bad language, Drop Dead Fred with more<br />
anger, or Harvey with a bear. MacFarlane voices Ted the bear, intimating<br />
his own sympathies about the situation and where he may be in John’s arc.<br />
People have been waiting for MacFarlane’s feature debut for a while. His<br />
track record in TV with The Cleveland Show, American Dad and the even<br />
more popular Family Guy only prove his biting sensibility is a hit with<br />
audiences. While this film will have a strange time battling the serious<br />
live-action-figure/superheroes for box office dollars, it’s certainly going to<br />
posit a unique option for audiences questioning what stage of growing up<br />
they face now.<br />
DISTRIBUTOR Universal Pictures CAST Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Laura<br />
Vandervoort, Giovanni Ribisi, Seth MacFarlane, Joel McHale, Patrick<br />
Warburton DIRECTOR Seth MacFarlane SCREENWRITERS Seth MacFarlane,<br />
Alec Sulkin, Wellesley Wild PRODUCER John Jacobs, Scott Stuber, Seth<br />
MacFarlane, Wellesley Wild, Tim Bevan GENRE Comedy RATING TBD (but<br />
most definitely R) RUNNING TIME TBD RELEASE DATE July 13, <strong>2012</strong><br />
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MAY <strong>2012</strong> BOXOFFICE PRO 109
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