Review of Sausage Party (2016) by Mrmoviebuff — 09 Sep 2016

Comedy is one of the most subjective genres in movies, just like with horror. There are different types of comedy some people are into, and different types of horror that some people are into. There are different audiences for each of these genres, and you must figure out why you like one thing and dislike another.

With 'Sausage Party', this is a Seth Rogen comedy disguised as some animated, almost Pixar-like type film. Imagine if Pixar made a movie with the premise "What if food had feelings?", but with Seth Rogen's crude and vulgar humor taking up most of the plot. There's a reason Pixar didn't make a movie with food as the main characters, because in Seth Rogen's words... "It would be f---ed up".

'Sausage Party' focuses on a hot-dog named Frank (voiced by Seth Rogen) who is on sale in a store along with his other hot-dog friends; Carl (Jonah Hill) and Barry (Michael Cera). He becomes infatuated with a bun named Brenda (Kristen Wiig), and the two of them believe, like all the other items on sale, that they will go to "The Great Beyond" when the humans, who are like gods to them, purchase them and take them home.

What they don't realize, however, is that "The Great Beyond" isn't quite as uplifting or magical as they would like to think. Honey Mustard (Danny McBride) tries to warn all the other items, after being returned to the store, that humans devour them in horrific looking ways, from their point of view at least, but nobody seems to believe him. Frank and Brenda do get chosen together by a customer, but somehow managed to get separated from the rest of the purchased items, and are stuck in the store until the next day, in the mean time, they must try and package themselves again and hopefully wait until another customer can buy them together.

There are a lot of funny scenes in this movie, most of the comedy does rely on shock-value, which is typical when it comes to Seth Rogen. There are a lot of "F" words being said by many characters many times, so much so to the point where your ears do get used to it, and the hilarious style of the "F" word can get a little boring and repetitive to listen to. The crude and over-use of sexual related jokes are also very funny and shocking, even more shocking towards the end which I will not spoil, but it does get a little too far-fetched. There is even your typical drug humor where we see many characters inhaling or consuming drugs and getting high all the time.

This movie does everything it can to earn its R-rating and uses almost every content that would get it there, when just the occasional "F" word being said here and there, and just crude sexual remarks would have been enough.

I admired the creativity behind this movie, I liked how the store was pretty much a whole world to these items and that the aisles were basically forms of neighborhood where these items live until they are purchased. The movie did make me laugh a lot (even at times when I should have known better), and it will do well to hold one's interest. Whether or not you get used to or sick of these jokes quickly can be a problem. There were times where I was thinking "This movie is rated R... I get it!"... but it is a whole lot of fun.

Maybe Rogen should tone it down next time, but this is one of the funniest movies of the year.