Review of Sausage Party (2016) by Leon B — 09 Jan 2017

Review:

What a crazy film! I really didn't expect this movie to have such foul language and sexual content, especially as it is an animation film. The concept was definitely original, and I doubt that the top studios, like Pixar, would ever make anything in this league but I can't see this film getting a wide audience, like some other animated movies would. Anyway, the movie is based on a hot dog type Sausage called Frank and a hot dog bun called Brenda, who are dying to go into the outside world, so they can get it on. Whilst on the supermarket shelves, the whole store believes that humans are gods, mainly because they take them into the outside to be free but a honey mustard jar returns to the shelves, after being mistakenly bought, and he tries to tell everyone about his bad experience in the outside world, which no one believes. During Honey Mustards outburst, the packet of Hot Dog buns and Hot Dogs, with Frank and Brenda in, are taken off the shelves by a consumer, and while Frank is trying to save Honey Mustard from committing suicide, the basket tips over, causing the contents to fall out of the basket. One of the baskets items, Douche, damages his nozzle, which falsies the manager to throw him in the bin, so he makes it his mission to destroy Frank and Brenda, who caused the basket to tip over. Whilst separated from there packets, Frank and Brenda join forces with Kareem Abdul Lavash and Sammy Bagel Jr. to make there way back to there department in the store but Frank wants to find out more about the outside world from Firewater, whose in the stores liquor aisle, so they take a quick detour and they wait for Frank to get his information. While Frank is smoking weed with Firewater, the rest of his crew are on the run from Douche, who has used his wicked ways to hunt them down but with the help of Teresa, a small taco, they manage to escape from Douche, and finally catch up with Frank, who tries to convince them that the outside world is pretty awful. Nobody wants to believe Frank about the so-called gods, so he uses the information that he got from Firewater, to get some proof and then he goes back to the market to show everyone what happens when they are taken off the shelves. Crazy but true! The movie then goes down an avenue of drugs, violence and an outrageous orgy, which is quite shocking if your not used to Seth Rogen's type of comedy. I did find the movie quite funny and the crazy plot was well put together but I did think that some of the scenes went a bit too far. It will change the way that you buy and cook food in the future, in a funny way but it's definitely not for kids, and some adults who will be offended by some of the jokes. If you don't take the movie seriously, you will find it fun, and it's one of those films that you can watch, to put you in a good mood but I doubt that it will go down as an all time classic. Enjoyable!

Round-Up:

With such a huge amount of actors supplying there voices to this risky comedy, I'm not surprised that the various characters brought different styles of comedy to the big screen, which made the movie work. It's directed by Greg Tiernan, who has directed Thomas and Friends cartoons since 2009, and he was the animation director for Happily N'Ever After. The other director, Conrad Vernon, 48, directed Shrek 2, Monsters vs. Aliens and Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, so he was the perfect choice to bring Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Jonah Hills story to the big screen. The animation was quite impressive, for a movie about food, and the expressions on the various characters faces, were spot on but the orgy scene really took it to another level. I personally can't a sequel in the near future, unless they name it Burger Party, so for a stand alone film, I would say that it was a decent achievement, which made a healthy profit.

Budget: $19million.

Worldwide Gross: $140.5million.

I recommend this movie to people who are into their animation/adventure/comedies, voiced by Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd, Craig Robinson, Edward Norton, Danny McBride, Salma Hayek, Bill Hader, James Franco, Michael Cera, Nick Kroll, David Krumholtz and Anders Holm. 6/10.