If Teddy Ruxpin could talk for himself, he would tell you how unhappy he is with Ted, the new CG animated comedy about a talking teddy bear. Since he can’t, his creator Ken Forsse, is doing it for him. “I wish they hadn’t done [the film],” he tells TMZ about the movie from the creator of Family Guy, Seth MacFarlane.
Unlike the best-selling bear from the ’80s — famous for “reading” PG stories from the cassette tape inserted into his back — Ted features a talking bear who cares less about promoting friendship and love, and more about getting drunk, and laid. Something Forsse doesn’t believe should ever be associated with a kid’s toy.
Even Mark Wahlberg’s character— who Ted belongs to in the movie — starts to rethink his R-rated friend, saying, “Sometimes when I think back to that Christmas morning when I was eight-years-old, I wish I had just gotten a Teddy Ruxpin.”
Viewers seem to disagree as the R-rated film topped the box office this weekend, earning an impressive $21 million.
[TMZ]
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