Because we’re starting with a central relationship that is a sex metaphor made literal, the rest of “Sausage Party” can’t hold back.
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What “Toy Story” did for our playthings, “Sausage Party” does for our food.
By the time the movie gets to the eye-popping orgy scene you maybe heard about from its SXSW fest premiere last spring, you’ll be wondering along with its creators how this got past the censors.
Of course it’s compliments of the minds that blew up a foreign leader in “The Interview” and reveled in the comedy of rape by demon in “This is the End”.
The merchandise believes humans are gods and that when the merchandise is purchased it goes to “the great beyond”.
You can find much more on Sausage Party right here, including a naughty red band trailer for the movie, if you’ve missed anything.
Leading the charge is Frank (voiced by Seth Rogen), a sausage who lives with his buddies in an eight-pack and yearns for the day he can be chosen and finally united with his love Brenda (Kristen Wiig), a hot dog bun whose mouth is vertical, just in case you were having difficulty with that analogy.
For the prank, Rogen and his film crew placed animatronic cantaloupes, sausages and loaves of bread on the supermarket shelves, each with speakers broadcasting Rogen’s voice from a nearby room. But Frank of little faith has some questions about the myth, and when a returned jar named Honey Mustard (Danny McBride) rants about the apocalyptic murder and destruction he encountered in a grocery shopper’s kitchen, Frank sets into motion a plan to save himself and Brenda from this fate. There’s even some geo-political Middle Eastern squabbling between a bagel (Edward Norton – who knew he did such a good Woody Allen impression?) and a lavash wrap (David Krumholtz).
Cowritten by Rogen and Goldberg, Sausage Party is codirected by kids’-cartoon specialists Greg Tiernan (Thomas & Friends) and Conrad Vernon (the Madagascar franchise), who give the film a glowing, children’s-book feel. Frank at least gets to hang very close to his fellow wieners, including pals Carl (Jonah Hill) and Barry (Michael Cera).
There is no one out there making comedies quite like Rogen and Goldberg.
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“Sausage Party”, a Columbia Pictures release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for “strong crude sexual content, pervasive language, and drug use”.
