Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
The comedy, as expected, is scattershot.

Name : Scott Foundas / Alias : Variety
In its own, sweetly subversive way, this might be just the tolerance plea America needs right now - a movie that says, in effect, "Love thy plushie as thyself."

Name : Tony Hicks / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
I didn't want to laugh. I swear. But I did laugh at "Ted 2." A lot.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
I've seen worse comedies this year, and I'll see better.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
You realize what it must be like to be trapped in detention with a bunch of 15-year-old boys who think there's nothing more hilarious than repeating the same jokes about porn, pot, and pulling your pud over and over again. It's funny, until it's not.

Name : Stephanie Zacharek / Alias : Village Voice
I laughed and laughed at Ted 2 - as I did at the 2012 Ted - and I can hardly tell you what that says about me, let alone about you.

Name : Frank Scheck / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Ted's Boston-accented zingers are expertly delivered by the director/star, whose voice talent is undeniable, and Wahlberg again demonstrates that he's skilled at comedy . Seyfried proves adept as well .

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
Sure, MacFarlane can write simple jokes as long as the 'f' key on his laptop holds out. Some of them are even funny. But a lot of them don't pay off, and most trod the same well-worn territory - potheads, practical jokes, politically-incorrect cliches.

Name : David Ehrlich / Alias : Time Out
MacFarlane's preference for quantity over quality results in a lot of dead air, but the gags that land are howlers, and all of its crudeness (and racism, and sexism, and homophobia, etc.), the movie beats with a real heart.

Name : Alan Scherstuhl / Alias : Village Voice
Detestable even as it's charming and ingratiating.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
MacFarlane is cynical, but he's not a cynic, and there are moments in "Ted 2" where you can sense a longing for the gentler and more upbeat entertainment of an earlier generation.

Name : Lindsey Bahr / Alias : Associated Press
In an admirable effort to go a different route, MacFarlane has instead done something hopelessly bizarre: He's given his film too much sincerity and story, and it practically crushes whatever fun does exist.

Name : Dan Callahan / Alias : TheWrap
Bad taste needs to be more honest and more all-inclusive if it's to make a lasting impression, and MacFarlane's bad taste here is both too wishy-washy and too knee-jerk cruel to really make any impact.

Name : Jacob Hall / Alias : New York Daily News
Once again, you will believe that a talking CGI stuffed animal can be a racist, hateful monster with no redeeming qualities . but his greatest sin is that he's not funny.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
The film, like most of MacFarlane's work, is a mix of occasional laugh-out-loud moments - there are some here - and cringe-worthy misfires that play a lot more tone-deaf than he seems to intend.

Name : Cary Darling / Alias : Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
The uneven and overly long Ted 2 manages to find moments of uproarious, if raunchy and groan-inducing, humor from today's hot-button headlines. At its best, it's better than Ted 1.0. At its worst, it's like, well, a Seth MacFarlane movie.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
In the midst of comedy, seriousness. The combination feels forced. A more disciplined and smarter director might have been able to successfully blend the two elements, but crude dude MacFarlane hasn't the skill to bring it off.