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Known for playing affable everymen, hamburger salesman Mark Wahlberg has come a long ways from his days a recording artist. These are some of his best movies.
The funniest movie character so far this year is a stuffed teddy bear. And the best comedy screenplay so far is Ted, the saga of the bear s friendship with a 35-year-old manchild. I know; this also was hard for me to believe. After memories of Mel Gibson s bond with a sock puppet, Ted was not high on the list of movies I was impatient to see.
The opening scenes find the right tone. A treacly narrator (Patrick Stewart) describes a Christmas that reminds us of a A Christmas Story, except for the jolts of four-letter words and anti-PC one-liners. We meet young John Bennett, the most unpopular kid in the neighborhood, so disliked that while a Jewish kid is being beaten up, John feels envious.