7. 2012 Was Painfully Unfunny
Ted. Is Ted seriously being helmed as the funniest movie of the year? You might be wondering the same thing right about now, perhaps after seeing it atop various best of 2012 comedy lists. Not only is Ted nowhere near as funny as 21 Jump Street (probably the funniest comedy to emerge this year), it comes over like a first draft – lackluster, under-baked, reeking of a TV movie. And actually, there was barely a decent laugh in it.
Ted‘s adoration tells us a lot about 2012 and its relation to comedy on the whole: there were barely any great comedy films to emerge this year. Among the goodies (and we’re not counting dramadies or comedramas or any hybrid thereof), I count 21 Jump Street, This Is 40… maybe The Campaign? And even those films aren’t likely destined to become fully-fledged classics. Which means that, yes, 2012 was only mildly amusing as far as the laughs went. For shame!