Sausage Party

Sometimes they try too hard, but Sausage Party is so impossibly dirty, but at the same time an impossibly imaginative, original and entertaining film, which is completely different to everything I've seen. It's not at all as primitive a spectacle as it might seem at first glance, and after a few minutes. (01/27/2018)

This is definitely food porn loaded with profanity and scenes that cross the line for some. On the other hand, it's an adult cartoon, so it's clear they're not going to be freeing Willy. On the one hand, I appreciate that the film makes a statement about such "weepy" issues as religion, otherness, ethnicity, and so on, but keeps it at the level of fun; of course, nothing deeper comes of it. In the end, basically all those stereotypes are used to entertain or dramatize the scene. Of course, some of the (pop) culture references were right on, ditto the visit from the candy-coated Stephen Hawking. The songs chosen were great and you could see the filmmakers were having fun with it. On the other hand, just bad language and now and then good and playful ideas are not enough to make you 100% interested in a film. Besides, the animation didn't impress me much either. I don't think watching it will hurt, if you don't mind that it's not exactly a story with a moral lesson and that the climax is a real climax. A better 3 stars. After all, even the day after watching it I was thinking about the film, mainly because I had no idea how to rate it. (08/25/2016)

It's always nice to put on a film believing we've seen everything and nothing can surprise us, only for it to slap us right in the face and ravish all our expectations. Sausage Party may be "innovative" to the point of being tasteless at times, and I'd love to cut out the final ten minutes and wipe them off the face of the earth, but otherwise I had such a great time that almost all film parodies of the last ten years go out defeated with an anal plug up their ass. The episodic narrative based on the division of the main characters, with one part directly confronted with the terrible fate of food in human dwellings and the other trying to trace this fate by wandering around a store, offers plenty of room for situational humour and the exploration of the sophisticated world of department stores, as well as for the development of a simple but sufficiently motivated story, which, conducted on two lines, can never be boring. Of course, it's easy to wonder if Seth Rogen simply has such a vivid imagination or if he grew up in the real South Park, because all that fucking, farting, squeaking, clawing and writhing is not absolutely necessary to maintain the film's originality and attractiveness, and at times it's downright harmful, but the thumbs go definitely up for the overall working concept, especially the individual ideas about the world, the hierarchy or simply the visuals of the food, which never ceased to surprise, and the amazing original voice acting. Really, better than I dared to hope. (02/10/2017)

I'm not under the illusion that this script was created any differently than with the main group meeting over a pile of food sometime around Independence Day, with the meeting interspersed with consuming various substances and a Toy Story marathon, and the job got done. In terms of parodies, it turned out quite funny as expected, but in terms of half-hearted socio-cultural comments and reminders, it was sweatily and clumsily done. Yet what destroys me the most is the constant need to swear, to randomly insert sexual innuendos into every scene, and to finish the last ten minutes with an extra coarse spectacle, maybe just for fun, to see if any of the viewers can handle it. Moreover, Seth Rogen keeps dwelling on the thousandth variation of how a character is under the influence of drugs, and that doesn't seem as funny to me as it is perplexing that his approach to these jokes has stopped evolving and instead has started to regress. (08/19/2018)

I had a dream about fat stars, who, stoned on a couch, who came up with the idea of film in which they want to insert a talking wiener into a chubby bun. Then I woke up, I was at the cinema watching Sausage Party, and it looked more like a first-rate nightmare. Points for penetrating the sterile moralistic vacuum of animators, zero for any real subversiveness and meatiness. A soy substitute for things by Matt Stone and Trey Parker. A Lavash bagel having sex is not enough for me to squirt light mayonnaise, you sausages. (08/31/2016)