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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
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
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.
The ultimate swear-bear returns
TED 2
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
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.
Mind over matter
INSIDE OUT
DVD & BD
Thunder Buddies 4 Lyfe
Deleted Scenes
Gag Reel
BD ONLY
Creating Comic-Con
Cameo Buddies
A Giant Opening Dance Number
Roadtripping
A Million Ways to Die in the West
EXTRAS
FURTHER VIEWING
Release Date:
25/11/15
Format:
DVD & BD
Lava
Audio commentary
BD ONLY
Riley’s First Date?
Paths To Pixar: The Women Of
Inside Out
Mixed Emotions
Up
EXTRAS
FURTHER VIEWING
Release Date:
04/11/15
Format:
TOP
HITS
TOP
HITS
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
.
DID YOU KNOW...
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!
DID YOU KNOW...
