Sausage Party [DVD]

We all know this guy’s humor, it’s funny, but definitely for grown-ups even though the kids are gonna beg to watch it because the animation looks so cute. So so full of inappropriateness don’t let them watch it.

Love this movie it's super funny!

[THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS REGARDING THE PREMISE OF THIS FILM, MOSTLY REVEALED EARLY ON. IT DOES NOT GIVE AWAY THE ENDING].First off, if it's not perfectly clear from the title, trailers, rating, and description, Sausage Party is NOT a kid's movie. There are physical acts depicted in this movie (amongst food items, mind you) that are comparable to fairly wild pornography, and a lot of the food gets "baked" in the Cheech and Chong sense of the term. This film is like no movie you've ever seen.Secondly, Sausage Party is a deeply, radically, subversive film. On the surface, it's a story about intelligent, talking food items, waiting around in the grocery store for the day they are "chosen by the gods" and taken away in someone's shopping cart. They of course don't know what actually happens to food when "the gods" (people) take them home. The hot dogs and buns in particular look forward to "Red White and Blue Day" (the Fourth of July) when many of them them will be taken away to paradise. The sausages and buns also look forward to finally getting out of their plastic wrappings and "getting together" in maybe the most obvious sexual metaphor in history.Your expectation with a premise like this might be a funny, romping chase / rescue routine with plenty of entertaining animation. And you wouldn't be wrong, entirely, except that Sausage Party also considers the horror of living beings being chopped, cooked, and eaten as part of its premise. It's darkly hilarious, but truly scary and horrific. Again, children should not watch this movie.This is again deeply subversive film. It's not just that human beings are the villains, gobbling down helpless foods that believe they're bound for paradise, although that's actually pretty disturbing in itself. But on another (fairly obvious) level, Sausage Party is really questioning, criticizing, and laughing at the idea of religion, gods, and the afterlife writ large in pointed, sometimes gruesome ways. It contemplates a world in which people (people who are sausages, tacos, buns, bottles of whiskey, etc.) fight to the death against tradition and authority and consider what they should do if they decide none of those things are what they are supposed to have been.If the scary, drug-referencing, explicitly sexual elements of Sausage Party don't bother you, it's actually incredibly uplifting. The ending sequence is one of those most intense and satisfying I've seen in a long while, and comes with a high-concept kicker that may open the door to a fascinating sequel.If you know Seth Rogen's humor, from Pineapple Express or This is the End, and enjoy it, you must see this film, although it's really above and beyond those films in several different ways. If you're up for the other other things described in this review, you ought to see it. There is really no other movie out there like it. It may be my favorite movie of 2016, and it would have been a terrible mistake to have dismissed it as silly stoner humor (not that that's a bad thing) and not seen it, which I nearly did.Five stars. Check it out.

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Very good movie not family friendly though

From the looks of things when I first saw the trailer for SAUSAGE PARTY I thought it could end up being a funny movie. Sure I knew it was from Seth Rogen and that it could end up being off the wall and a bit crude but I’d seen enough of his films to expect that. Most of his films are like that and some were funny, but as he’s gotten older and as the films become more frequent that small bit of humor got stale. While this movie isn’t quite stale it is something altogether different. And I don’t mean that in a good way.If you haven’t seen the trailer I suggest you do so before watching the movie. You’ll see some of the best gags that way. And then you won’t have to bother with the movie itself. If you do decide to go ahead, be prepared for one of the most offensive movies you’ll ever see. My guess would be that of Rogen and his friends ever read that sentence they would consider it a badge of honor. They shouldn’t.The movie is an animated film about the lives of food in a grocery store. Each morning they wake and sing a song about how wonderful it is to be there and with any luck be chosen by the Gods to be taken out of the store. The song has that cheery Disneyesque feel to it but when listening to the lyrics not quite so since about every 4th word is an F bomb or variation of that word.Our story focuses on two food members. Frank is a hot dogs in a package of the same and Brenda is a curvaceous bun in a package located right next to Frank and his group. The two are star crossed loves who have never met but who have “touched tips” meaning reached across from their various packages to touch fingertips. Their dream is to one day be picked up at the same time and finally united in the great beyond.Circumstances result in their falling out of a shopping cart and left stranded in the store. Along the way to finding their home they get separated. While Frank’s journey results in his learning what actually happens when you reach the great beyond, Brenda is pursued by a bottle of douche with a broken stem intent on wreaking havoc and destroying Frank. High humor, right?The two reunite and Frank tries to tell Brenda that it is all a lie, that there are no beneficent Gods out there and that the great beyond is nothing more than a death sentence for all who leave the store. The two part ways and Frank is now more determined than ever to find proof to show the rest of the store that his discovery is true.Up to this point the off color humor has been fairly tame with a few exceptions going what some would consider too far. And a few of the jokes found here are actually well thought out and funny, in particular the food puns. But the movie isn’t over. It gets much much worse.To begin with there is the none too subtle concept on display here involving the Gods and the great beyond. Depending on your beliefs this will either make you laugh or offend you greatly. In essence the story is that God doesn’t really exist, Heaven is a myth and you should live your life as you want to now doing whatever you want to do. And I do mean whatever. Of course all of this is done in good fun. Sorry but as someone who does believe I found no fun in the ridicule of those who have faith.If that wasn’t enough there are a ton of off color sexual jokes found in here, everything from A to Z. If you think one inanimate object performing oral sex on another is hilarious then this movie is right up yor alley. And if the periodic jokes weren’t enough as the film gets to the final segment every food or item in the store joins into an orgy the likes of which are not seen outside of the most extreme pornographic films made. If there is a sexual act known to man you will see it performed by food items during this segment.I have little doubt in my mind that pre-adolescent boys will find a way to get hold of this movie to watch together, giggle and then laugh out loud at what they see. They have no idea what it is that goes on between two people so this is their dirty joke, the kind that you laughed at until you were an adult and then realized wasn’t funny. Those who are stuck in that age bracket mentally will enjoy it as well or will try and tell you that you aren’t “enlightened” enough to appreciate the humor on display here. They won’t care who it offends and won’t care that it is bottom of the barrel humor.The most disturbing thing about this film is that there will be some parents out there who won’t pay attention to the rating or consider looking at what the film is about who will rent it for their children simply because all they will see is that it’s an animated film. I can’t imagine what the affects seeing this would have on those children.I’ve seen adult animated films before from FRITZ THE CAT to SHAME OF THE JUNGLE. As an adult I could appreciate the things they were trying to say, the standards that they were trying to poke fun at and understand where they were coming from in their method of talking about the topics. This film has no motivation other than to talk dirty, be nasty and slam anyone who believes in God. The level of humor is Beavis and Butthead on steroids, where simply saying a dirty word makes those involved laugh (watch the extras and you’ll see that actually happen). The sad reality is that they are laughing all the way to the bank.