The laughs in 'Ted' come largely through the teddy bear's dialogue. American movies have recently featured a lot of male characters who are victims of arrested adolescence, but few who have resisted growing up more successfully than John. John and Ted lead an 'Animal House'-like existence, inhaling wholesale quantities of weed and recalling their early years as ' Flash Gordon' fans. Against all odds, he also has a fragrant girlfriend named Lori Collins ( Mila Kunis), who has been waiting four years for a marriage proposal. Teddy is now a little frayed, and John ( Mark Wahlberg), at 35, has a counter job at a rental car agency.

But his fame fades ('like Corey Feldman,' the narrator explains), and he settles in as John's roommate for life. The miracle of a walking, talking teddy bear of course makes the little stuffed creature an overnight celebrity, and he appears on the Carson show. For Christmas, his parents give him an enormous teddy bear the size of a first grader, and that night under the sheets with a flashlight, John asks Teddy to be his real and true forever friend. All young John wants is a true friend for life.

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