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)

Whatever you may think of Seth Rogen, I appreciate the fact that he can surround himself with like-minded people and from time to time release something into the world that studios don't usually have the balls to do. Like a film about the assassination of Kim Jong Un or Sausage Party. On the face of it, it's exactly what you'd expect, a cheap but still decent-looking animated film full of dirty and vulgar jokes, some of which might not even pass muster with the writers of South Park – the final five minutes are a great test of the audience's taste. At the same time, it's all surprisingly smart, working with themes that are perhaps too ambitious for such a film at first glance, and together it works perfectly. Sausage Party is ninety minutes long, and they don’t waste time, so the pacing is lethal, the cadence of the jokes more than satisfying, and you'll find enough ideas that you'll never think of this animated madness as mere self-indulgent vulgarity. Yeah, it's vulgar, but it's also intelligent, surprising and, above all, terribly funny. (05/15/2017)

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)

This is just a total nightmare. A bunch of completely unintelligent jokes with an even bigger pile of bad words crammed into a sleazy and disgusting movie. Not to mention the pathetic scene at the end. Lessons learned for next time? When Seth Rogen writes the screenplay for something, it can never be all that good. (09/14/2016)

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)