Review of Sausage Party (2016) by Silverscreen91 — 11 Aug 2016

Sausage Party is easily one of the weirder movies that are out there, and I don’t mean that in a good way. First and foremost, if you are easily offended in any way, shape, or form, do NOT see this movie! This film goes out of its way to offend as many people as it possibly can. I can’t think of a single group of people who aren’t targets of some kind of joke, stereotype, or just outright racist expression. Be strong of heart, ye who enter here.

Now for the most part, the movie isn’t that bad. The concept and story are interesting and creative, most certainly something original. The voice acting is actually spot on, not at all distracting and matching every character perfectly. The animation is really good, though, with a strange amount of detail being put into the characters despite the style being cartoonier. Unfortunately, the comedy is really lackluster. There are a few jokes that work (a particularly good one with a certain singer who shares his stage name with food), but most of those are in the trailer and the rest of them are based on the aforementioned racism in this movie.

For about the first two thirds of the film, if you can get past the incredibly offensive stereotypes, it’s an alright film. But towards the very end, pretty much the second to last scene of the film, it takes an insane sharp left turn into “what the f**k” territory. And unfortunately, the scene goes on far longer than it really should. It’s such a bizarre, out there scene that I don’t think anyone in the theater knew how to react to it. I won’t exactly say what it is, but I will say that the sexual innuendos and sexual talk in the film is blown out of the water and firmly secures this movie’s “R” rating.

This one scene completely flips the movie on its head. What was just an average comedy film was swiftly shoved into the realm of “DO NOT SEE IN THEATERS” in a matter of moments. Wait until this movie comes out on Redbox, and watch it ALONE to decide whether or not it’s something you really want anyone else to see.