STACK NZ Nov #68

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The ultimate swear-bear returns TED 2

Release Date: 25/11/15 Format:

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Creating Comic-Con Cameo Buddies A Giant Opening Dance Number Roadtripping

Our favourite bear’s recent nuptials descend into a nightmare when Ted wants a kid, only to find out he’s not classified as a real person in the eyes of the law, but rather property. Only a dope-smoking lawyer (Amanda Seyfried) and a civil rights attorney (Morgan Freeman) can help him now. Mark Wahlberg is back (but Mila Kunis isn’t) as the long-suffering buddy of this ursine

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The plot was born out of Seth MacFarlane reading John Jakes’ Civil War novels while filming A Million Ways to Die in the West . It replaced his original Smokey and the Bandit -inspired plot of Ted and John driving a large shipment of marijuana cross-country, which was scrapped following the release of We’re the Millers .

fart, boob, porn, Bill Cosby and Robin Williams gags) peppering a plot involving numerous lawyers, celebrity cameos, Roger from Mad Men , the return of the Tiffany- loving Donnie, and a trip to New York’s Comic-Con. MacFarlane’s brand of humour is a love-it-or-hate-it affair, and in Ted 2 it actually serves the story rather than the other way around.

protagonist, offering his services as a sperm donor! The genius of Ted was Seth MacFarlane simply waxing lyrical via a fluffy, porn-obsessed stoner child’s toy. This, when on fire, can be gut-wrenchingly funny, and for much of its running time this sequel is a full steam ahead laugh- athon, with predictably bad taste shenanigans (including

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A Million Ways to Die in the West

Mind over matter INSIDE OUT

Release Date: 04/11/15 Format:

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Riley’s First Date? Paths To Pixar: The Women Of Inside Out Mixed Emotions

Set almost entirely in the brain of a young girl, the new animated blockbuster from Pixar is literally a mind-blowing delight. The premise is simple but ingenious: the emotions and memories that govern our everyday lives here

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Director Peter Docter is a Pixar veteran who served as animation supervisor on the first Pixar movie Toy Story The look of the various compartments of Riley’s mind were inspired real life locations: for example, Long Term Memory was based on an egg processing plant!

take a physical form at Brain HQ. In the case of Inside Out ’s heroine 11-year-old Riley, Joy – voiced by Park and Recreatio n’s Amy Poehler – has so far been the dominant emotion throughout her young life. However, that all changes when she and Sadness ( The Office ’s Phyllis Smith) are accidentally swept away to the outer reaches of her brain, leaving Anger (Lewis Black), Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and Fear (Bill Hader) in charge at the control centre. With Riley fast descending into moodiness and despair, Joy and Sadness – with a

little help from Riley’s long forgotten imaginary friend Bing Bong (Richard Kind) – embark on a weird and wonderful mind-trip to return things to normal. It’s been a quiet few years for Disney’s Pixar – this is the animation studio’s first new feature film since 2013’s Monster University – but Inside Out shows that it has lost none of its ability to entrance viewers young and old; in fact, it’s one Pixar’s best ever movies, period.

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