Sausage Party [DVD]

[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.

Sausage Party is outrageous, bold, and full of laugh-out-loud moments. Beneath the crude humor is a surprisingly clever commentary on belief, identity, and society. The animation is sharp, the voice cast is excellent, and the jokes land hard if you enjoy adult humor. Not for everyone, but if you're into edgy comedies, it's a hilarious ride.

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.

This reminded me a lot of Blazing Saddles, in that its humor is based to a large extent on being as offensive as possible to the largest number of groups, but not in a nasty way. Plus lots of over-the-top sex jokes and stupid puns. The anthropomorphizing of the food/products based on its ethnicity or function was funny and clever. (Like, the douche was a real douche). But it was also kind of the same joke over and over again, and would probably have been better if it were at least a half hour shorter. Also, I don't think that the filmmakers really understand religion and spirituality. For a while it looked like the point of the movie would be some kind of spiritual quest, but they didn't really follow through on that. Still all in all, this is quite good.

Really good movie not suitable for kids.

As the movie title and cover clearly portrays the type of film it will be, it succeeds in showing many inappropriate jokes throughout the movie. Although the jokes are not all about sex, it pokes a lot of other topics too. If you think about the script, they've been able to make fun of many topics and they should be applauded for that. They make fun of religion, drug users, men, women, Indians, gays and much more.Although the humor isn't for everyone, the plot is rather interesting by deciding to present what food would be like if they were alive is an interesting path to take. The characters are all distinct and are remembered. The main antagonist is surprisingly not one of the humans but actually another inanimate object which is a douche and ironically he is quite a douche in the movie which I found to be quite clever on the scriptwriters.With all of the good things said, the movie isn't perfect. In the near end of the movie, they take the literal use of the term "food porn" and it can be quite cringing especially of how long they drag out the scene. While there are plenty of inappropriate jokes throughout the movie, they are not afraid to be a bit controversial in some sections of the movie. Two scenes stuck out the most and one involved with the debate of reality verses religion. While the other scene can lead viewers to have uncomfortably witness a murder and rape. In terms of any sexual jokes, they seem to be really written by a 15 year old and it can push some of the mature adults away but the movie seems to really target young adults that seem to love sex jokes and are more open minded about everything. In fact I believe this movie is really intended for a small minority as the writers have essentially put up jokes that can offend anyone.If you have seen the trailers, you should know what to expect from the movie but for those who haven't, you'll be very disappointed and worse if you brought children to see this movie under the assumption that animated movies are meant for kids and that is the worst mistake that some one can make for a movie like this. In the end, if you've looked into the trailers and realize that it is a rated R movie you should know what to expect out of this movie

This movie is so raunchy with LOTS of profanity but if you have a great sense of humor then it’s amazing and you’ll love it. It’s got so many clever and witty, intelligent scenes, themes, and phrases through out. I really loved the movie. I laughed the entire way through.