Ted 2's First trailer

Ted 2’s trailer brings back memories of the first film Photograph

 Ted 2's first trailer – can you bear it without Mila Kunis?

Our first look at the return of the foul-mouthed talking teddy bear suggests Seth MacFarlane has cut out the middle (wo)man and gone straight for the bromance

Just over two years ago, we voted Ted the second best film of 2012 (just below The Master, just about Amour). So we’re excited by this first look at the sequel, in particular the fact it looks like more of the same: Ted and Mark Wahlberg, talking trash, on a sofa.

There’s some small differences: the shock value has gone, the token woman has changed. Out is Mila Kunis, in is Amanda Seyfried as a lawyer named Sam L Jackson who represents our furry friend in his case to be recognised as human.

This discrimination means Ted is unable to be named as the father to the child he’s proposing to have with new wife Tami-Lynn (a surprise survivor from the first film). For the actual sperm, though, he’ll need the help of his thunder buddy.

Ted 2's first trailer – can you bear it without Mila Kunis?

So, the action here is yet more focused: it’s a bromance, whose end goal is a baby. The women is literally a carrier, an enabler, another version of the necessary stumbling block that Mila Kunis represented in the first film. To some extent, drilling down on Ted’s key sell is good – in a trailer. Over a full-length movie, it might be more of a stretch.

What else has us anxious? Well, part of the fun of the first Ted was its genuine irreverence. But there’s something slightly too on-the-button about a lot of choices here: music cues, meta-stereotyping, bad taste laughs which don’t seem quite uproarious enough. Plus, of course, there’s A Million Ways to Die in the West.

Will Ted 2 land that coveted No 2 spot in the Guardian’s best films of 2015 poll? Probably not. At least if Haneke really pulls it out of the bag.

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