To promote his new R-rated animated film Sausage Party, Seth Rogen placed some high quality animatronic foods (a cantaloupe, a couple loaves of bread, and the world’s largest sausage) into a real New York City store and surprised passersby with some heckling. But they came out with a heartwarming product that is at times completely mindless but at other points filled to the brim with deep introspection on universal human problems.
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Sausage Party opened Friday, pitting its R-rated animated tale against Suicide Squad‘s crucial second weekend.
The Douche character tells you everything you need to know about the movie. “But I would probably think twice before killing a living dictator in one of my films”. But when one bottle of honey mustard is returned to the store, he starts planting the seeds of truth that lead Rogen’s character on a quest through the supermarket to discover that humans kill food when they leave the supermarket. However, once it was clarified for Combs that the movie was animated, he was no longer interested.
Much of the story is centered around Frank the hot dog, voiced by Seth Rogen and Brenda the bun, voiced by Kristen Wiig after they had gotten left behind at the store from the rest of their packages. There are things you could never get away with in a live-action movie, like an orgy that goes on for several minutes. Why do they even get to make arbitrary calls like this?
“Sausage Party”, gleefully crude and maybe, in the end, surprisingly thoughtful, is certainly “crazy” by today’s ever-narrowing mainstream comedy movie standards. “We knew we had a really amusing concept of hot dogs wanting to have sex with buns, but, we knew we weren’t going to be able to carry a 98-minute movie with just that alone”.
Though “Sausage Party” is often lazily outrageous, those who enjoy the Rogen/Goldberg humor will undoubtedly be laughing for much of it, and even those with more sophisticated senses of humor will find a few things to chuckle about. As it moves along the jokes only get worse and the villain was just weird.
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Honestly, the idea of seeing all the actors making this movie while wearing cheap food suits sounds pretty amusing. This may seem harsh to some people but trust me it is justified.
