Film: MacFarlane stuffs Ted full of laughs

Reviewed: Ted

**Directed by Seth MacFarlane**

**Nationwide, cert 16**

**Rating:** 4/5

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane brings all the comic crudeness and pop culture satire of Peter Griffin and his scatological chums to his big screen debut **Ted**, the surprisingly sentimental story of a fraternal romance between a thirtysomething man-child and his magical teddy bear.

A short pre-credits sequence, sonorously narrated by Patrick Stewart, introduces young John (played later by Mark Wahlberg), a ...