Sausage Party (2016)

Sausage Party (R)

A frankfurter and his bun-to-be are thrown into an spiritual (and cuss laden) adventure in the aisles of their grocery store and beyond in the first CGI R-rated animated farce Sausage Party.

Sausage Party, brought to us by Seth Rogan and Jonah Hill, is a stoner movie, and that doesn't just mean the characters hit a bong (which they do, thanks for reminding us you love weed, again, Rogan), no it means it was written and starring people who are literally stoned, and the plot reflects it.

"Let's make Toy Story, except about FOOD!"
"And have a musical number like a Disney movie, about God n shit cuz they are stupid like us!"
"Yeah, and they think we are the Gods, but really we are disgusting monsters who EAT them!"
"God is religion which is bad, so have a Bagel and a whatever-the-fuck Muslims eat hate each other!"
"And the bad guy is a literal Douche, like a Douche from the feminine aisle or some shit!"
"And people that take bath salts, like, lets us dudes see the Food for reals!"
"And at the end they all get to bone!  They find freedom and like have a huge food on food orgy!"

The anti-religion, pro-atheism, sex and drugs are freedom message is obvious and too strong, Seth is not awakening us with his comedic wiener movie.  The film is also filled with questionable racial stereotypes done by a handful of un-ethnic comedic friends of Rogan and Company.  There are only two female characters (both characterized as meat receiving vessels,) although one is Selma Hayek playing a lesbian Taco so there is that.  There is some wit, some funny ideas, some laugh out loud moments, some funny cartoon gore but most of it's is just cursing.

Hint.  When you make a movie, if the very first line is a curse, if you drop FBombs and Cbombs literally every other word it loses it's impact.  Steve Martin's famous FBombing in Planes, Trains works because they speak like normal people up until that moment (i.e., talk normal, curse when necessary, repeat).  And then suddenly it earns its R with the huge blue tirade of rage.  Sausage Party isn't blue, it's purple in the face from shouting all the bad words constantly and it isn't funny.  If it was handled right, a Pixar film that suddenly turned raucous (which on paper is what it intends to be), it would indeed be much funnier.  But by the skin of it's sheath Sausage Party stays just enough ahead of its dumb ideas to deliver entertainment, but was it worth the terrible working conditions for it's animators Mr. Rogan?

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