Ted 2 (2015)
Thunder buddies for life.
Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.
In Ted 2, consciousness is carried by toys and objects — a plane of “sentient plush”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, law, personhood, identity, consciousness.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Also bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Incredibles 2 (2018)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
I, Robot (2004)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
The Bad Batch (2017)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
Manderlay (2005)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
Alpha and Omega (2010)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
North (1994)alters at E10 · same rung · looseAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Happytime Murders (2018)consciousness in objects · puppet noir
Barbie (2023)consciousness in objects · doll society
UglyDolls (2019)consciousness in objects · toy society
The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017)consciousness in objects · lego city
Barbie: Spy Squad (2016)consciousness in objects · toy-society
Toy Story 2 (1999)consciousness in objects · toy-shelf worldSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Jungle Book (2016)consciousness in animals · identity, law
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022)consciousness in monsters · identity, law
Secret of the Wings (2012)consciousness carried elsewhere · identity, law
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018)consciousness in animals · identity, law
Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (2008)consciousness in machines · consciousness, identity
Alien Nation (1988)consciousness in aliens · identity, law
