In case you have been living under a rock and are not aware of what this movie is about, Sausage Party, is the tale of a group of food items living in a grocery store who are all waiting to be chosen by humans, whom they see as Gods, as when they are chosen they perceive that they are taken to food heaven but while this may be a cartoon it is not one for your kids.
It look as good as anything Pixar will release, and there are plenty of visual references within to Pixar movies, the content is anything but similar. From racism, Nazism to sexism, if there is an –ism then they most likely touch upon it in this movie but given that the main theme of the film is that Frank, a sausage (Seth Rogan) is waiting to get out of the grocery store so that he can hook up with his girlfriend Brenda, a hot dog bun that looks remarkably like a vagina (Kirsten Wiig) and constantly makes sexual references about how he wants to get into her then there is no surprise that the tone of the movie is of the adult variety. So when a jar of Honey Mustard (Danny McBride) gets returned to the store he brings back a very different tale than the heavenly experience they expect and Frank decides to try and find out the truth behind these rumours. So he sets out on an adventure across the store to locate Firewater (Bill Hader) a native American bottle of liquor who can show him the truth but hot on his trail is Douche (Nick Kroll) a feminine hygiene product who wants revenge, after Frank stopped him getting picked by the humans and will stop at nothing in order to get his hands (or nozzle) on the sausage.
As bizarre as it sounds this is a funny movie, especially if you like your movies in the style of Ted or Pineapple Express but behind the adult comedy there is a lot of hidden satire and clever humour which may be missed and there is a brilliantly genius parody of the opening scene from Saving Private Ryan all involving food. However on the downside the movie suffers from a lack of consistency as the novelty of the talking food humour does wear off after a while and there were times when the gags felt a bit cheap so while there were moments that I was laughing uncontrollably there were plenty of so-so moments as well and there is a scene towards the end which is just so out there and bizarre that you cannot help but laugh.
While it wasn’t as funny as I thought it was going to be it may have opened up a new avenue of adult humour in movies and it certainly gets credit for originality. Give it a shot as you may be pleasantly surprised.
DJ Speaks Rating: 5.5 out Of 10