Review of Sausage Party (2016) by Electronick — 22 Aug 2016

"Sausage Party" consists of mos of the tropes you would get out of a Seth Rogen comedy. There are plenty of crude jokes to keep Rogen's target audience howling with laughter but it also goes a little beyond what the trailers advertised.

What appears to be a silly adult comedy starring talking food items on the surface is actually an interesting satirical work about human kind ( or in this case food kind's) relationship with God and the differences of races through allegorical but easily understood messages.

The film explores how people can be easiliy mislead by people of higher authority to follow blind ignorance in the name of a deity who may or may not be real. In this case "God" is represented by the humans who eat the food as the food believe they are being taken into paradise only to realise too late that the humans are only using them to "power thier own strength".

In fact the main villain of the film who is a littlral douche is a fantnatic who kills other food items for his personal game. There is even an interesting topic in regards to what it truly means to be clean and the film also doesn't shy away from diving into some controversial topics such as the conflict between Palestine and Israel.

It doesn't dive in to the topics too much since it is a Seth Rogen kind of comedy filled with low brow humor (its best not to go in expecting "A Modest Proposal"). In fact the low point of the film is the humor itself.

It does produce some laughs such as an indestructible piece of gum who resembles Stephen Hawking. The humor is not cringey by any means but it does suffer from making a few predictable jokes and relying on its novelty as an adult animated film but that novelty wears off pretty quickly.

It might keep those who only sees animation as part of children's entertainment but it loses its shock value from someone who has seen many animes and adult animated films made for DVD movies. The film does have its humorous moments but I don't put it into as high of a pedestal like some fellow critics had.