This time around, the irksome evil of needing a plot to hang the gags on is that the potty-mouthed teddy bear has lost his legal status as a person and so has to set about re-establishing it. But that's by the by; what you judge this on is whether it contains any new innovations in upsetting the thin-skinned with irreverence, and unfortunately it doesn't. MacFarlane is too smug to bother; he's got his legions through
Family Guy and clearly can't be bothered to work to get any more fans. Of course, giving the punters more of the same is the rule in Hollywood rather than the exception, but it does rile a bit when that's exactly what the best bits of his comedy are built on attacking.
So, we get entire scenes recycled from the TV cartoon like wrecking an incriminating laptop full of porn, a mishap in a sperm bank and a stoned car crash, followed by a cute Disney woodland animal bit, and then there's the tedious business of having the bear and Mark Wahlberg get caned again and again, reeling off cock jokes.
A few star cameos momentarily liven it up, but they're all too fleeting and then we're back to the plod again, with the knowledge that there's still over an hour to go and storyline boxes have to be ticked off. It's a pointless exercise, with none of the novelty and sweetness that raised the first film above the gross-out comedy norm.
4/10
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