Move over Paddington, politeness has had its day. The rootsier end of the bear spectrum, Ted, is back with a new poster for Ted 2 in which he’s executing what can best be described, pre-watershed, as “the one pawed shuffle”. Click below for a look at him in, erm, err, action. It’s more of the same, poster-wise. Seems that Antonioni-esque sequel in which Ted embarks on an existentialist journey in pursuit of meaning in his furry life never quite reached the drawing board. Hold tight for more ursine misadventures involving booze, drugs, strippers and more, stronger drugs.
Plot details are still under wraps at this point, with shooting underway in Boston, but early world is that Ted gets into some legal scraps that see him call on the help of Morgan Freeman’s famous civil rights lawyer. It seems that the bear is fighting a ground-breaking legal battle to have a child with his human girlfriend.
Seth MacFarlane returns to direct, star, voice the bear and co-write the script with regular partners Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild, while Mark Wahlberg is back as John Bennett. Amanda Seyfried takes the female lead and Liam Neeson and John Slattery are also joining the fun.
The first **Ted **made $550 million worldwide. After A Million Ways To Die In The West flopped hard, MacFarlane will be hoping hard for more of the same. It lands in the US on June 26 before arriving UK side of the pond on July 10.