It’s worth applauding the sizable writing team (which includes Rogen, his ‘Superbad’ creative buddy Evan Goldberg and Jonah Hill) for polishing ‘Sausage Party’ to a busy Pixar-like sheen, in which every inch of space is filled by a joke. And what exactly lies beyond those air-conditioned aisles?Įveryone is someone else’s food – that’s a sophisticated concept for any film. A Woody Allen-ish bagel, Sammy (Edward Norton), makes an uneasy truce with a bearded Middle Eastern lavash bread (David Krumholtz) later, they’ll become more than friends. But as with ‘South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut’ (1999) and ‘The Lego Movie’ (2014), the script invests its scenario with an existential and political dimension.
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Had this rude movie stuck to that one joke, even its brief 89-minute running time would have felt like waiting at an extra-long checkout queue. We’re in a supermarket, where the talking food can’t wait to be picked up off the shelves – the characters are convinced they’re going to a better place. Or at least it is for its first, foulmouthed 15 minutes, as we meet Frank (Seth Rogen), a horny sausage who just wants to raw-dog it with Brenda (Kristen Wiig), the pillowy bun on the next aisle. As the title implies, this is a strictly not-for-kids, animated sex fest. That’s not to say ‘Sausage Party’ is a pile of spinach. Sausage Party frequently resembles a horror movie - and also a famous Twilight Zone episode - rather than a comedy.Sometimes, nutrition comes in unlikely packages. Little do they and the other vittles know, but a terrible fate of dicing, slicing, crunching and munching awaits the unsuspecting sustenance, unless they can find a way out. Not to worry: the 4th of July holiday is coming up, and Frank and Brenda know they’ll soon be together in “the Great Beyond,” the promised paradise outside Shopwell’s where all food longs to be. Frank at least gets to hang very close to his fellow wieners, including pals Carl (Jonah Hill) and Barry (Michael Cera). They’re tantalizingly close to each other in an aisle of grocery store Shopwell’s, but separated by the confining plastic and paper that wrap them. Sausage Party is nominally the sweet and sexy story of a randy wiener named Frank (Rogen), who longs to be with Brenda, his frisky bun of a girlfriend (Kristen Wiig). It all goes down very well, even if a certain earthy Anglo-Saxon word is baked into every second sentence.
No shock there, but who’d have guessed they’d also put religion on the menu: human “gods” and “monsters” alternately worshipped and feared by their food and conflicting Jewish and Arab comestibles (that’s what you get when you put kosher and halal on the same shelf). It looks like Pixar, but plays like Monty Python.
These longtime friends and writing partners, whose previous brainstorms have resulted in the likes of Superbad, Pineapple Express and the North Korea-baiting The Interview, go all-in on the raunchy humour along with their A-list comedy collaborators. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg wouldn’t have it any other way. (Conrad Vernon, the other co-director, has Shrek and Madagascar movies to his credit.) You must either bite hard into this animated comedy about the secret - and very naughty - lives of supermarket food items, or pass it up entirely.Īnd this is most empathetically not a dish to be served to children (check that 18A Ontario rating), even if co-director Greg Tiernan comes to this by way of Thomas the Tank Engine videos. The rudely amusing Sausage Party is anything but an acquired taste. Directed by Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon. Adult animation featuring the voices of Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Michael Cera, Salma Hayek, Jonah Hill, Bill Hader and James Franco.
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