Ignore the early moments of Ted 2 which are like a randy horse coming out of the confinements of an opening gate. Once set free Ted 2 lumbers unmercifully from one ribald gag to another. Some are riotously funny. Other gags miss, but just when you think, "This isn't working," Seth MacFarlane lands a whopper and you are back in the game of laughing and having a good time.
Humor is like that. Jokes are risks. And MacFarlane has some of the biggest balls in the comedy industry as proven by his risk taking. His writing falls on its face then bounces back with a gigantic grin. Several times I actually laughed out loud after thinking, "This film sucks."
MacFarlane holds no prisoners. No one is sacred. Even F. Scott Fitzgerald's name offers one of the funniest exchanges in Ted 2.
The plot is predictable and I am happy to say this film is not about plot. It is merely a vehicle for MacFarlane's curious, outrageous and lovable mind. As well as fellow writers Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild. The film opens with Ted marrying Tami Lynn (Jessica Barth). They are riotously happy then in the next scene they are at each other's throats. Ted comes to the conclusion that if Tami Lynn and he had a baby, their domestic strife would evaporate. A sperm donor is sought. This evokes some of the funnier moments as Tom Brady has a small scene that lights up the screen. My, is he beyond handsome and a good actor who proved this by lying about inflatgate.
John (Mark Wahlberg), Ted's best friend, becomes the sperm donor and wrecks a lab in a good scene which ends with John being covered with sperm. (You have to see it.) The sperm idea does not work as Tami Lynn is unable to carry a baby. Hence Ted and Tami Lynn visit adoption agencies. This fails as well as the fact thatTed must prove to the government that he is human not property.
Ted and Tami and John seek a lawyer to sue for Ted's right to be recognized as being human. Samantha (Amanda Seyfried) is hired as a pro bono lawyer. She loses her noble attempt, but as a paste up script would do, Patrick Meighan (Morgan Freeman) prances in during the final moments as a noble hot shot lawyer to save Ted's Day. The end is a bummer in laugh town, but if you go to a comedy with the desire to laugh, by the end of Ted 2, you are tired of judging laughs and just "Go with it." Judging the quality of laughs is not what Ted 2 is about. Laughing is.