{"id":3569,"date":"2012-06-30T20:10:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T02:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=3569"},"modified":"2012-06-30T20:10:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T02:10:18","slug":"ted-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=3569","title":{"rendered":"Ted (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a theory, which is that <a title=\"The first motion picture from the creator of Family Guy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1637725\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ted<\/a> is probably not the movie you think it is. The previews play it up as a black comedy where an evil bear corrupts the youth and continues to ruin his life years later while doing darkly hilarious things to everyone else around. Instead, it&#8217;s a bog-standard\u00a0romantic comedy where the buddy is the sticking point between the boy and the girl. Except, that&#8217;s not fair either, because it&#8217;s <em>so much funnier<\/em> than that. Also, I think it had maybe a little more heart than that.<\/p>\n<p>Which is really all I can say, because funny is different to different people. All I know is, I and the two other people I saw it with quoted lines to each other all through dinner, cracking up all over again the second time around. Oh, and the CGI bear is pretty great, if you&#8217;re into that kind of thing. (I mean, not <em>into<\/em> it. Jesus, keep that to yourself!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a theory, which is that Ted is probably not the movie you think it is. The previews play it up as a black comedy where an evil bear corrupts the youth and continues to ruin his life years later while doing darkly hilarious things to everyone else around. Instead, it&#8217;s a bog-standard\u00a0romantic comedy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-3569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-romantic-comedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}