Sausage Party

Rating: 5/10 (8 September 2016)

My first experience of an animated movie aimed at adults was South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut, it has been some time since I remember watching an adult cartoon with loads of swearing and crude humour, so I was looking forward to this one, probably the first computer animated adult movie, from the makers of This Is the End. Basically in a supermarket called Shopwell's, the foods, drinks and other groceries come to life, they see the human shoppers as the gods and long to be taken outside to "the great beyond". Frank (Seth Rogen) is a sausage, he dreams of going to the great beyond with his hot dog bun girlfriend Brenda (Kristen Wiig), they are chosen by a consumer to leave the store, but a returned jar of Honey Mustard (Danny McBride) warns that outside is not what they have been led to believe. An accidental collision heading towards the checkout counters occurs, Frank, Brenda, a lavash (flatbread) named Kareem (David Krumholtz), a bagel named Sammy (Edward Norton) and an aggressive (vaginal irrigation device) Douche (Nick Kroll) fall out of the shopping trolley, Douche being damaged and thrown away by store employee Darren (Paul Rudd) swears revenge. With the rest of the groceries going through the register and taken to the great beyond, Frank, Brenda and the others decide to journey back to their aisles, but Frank fears the warning from the honey mustard, he leads them to the liquor aisle to meet the knowledgeable (moonshine) Firewater (Bill Hader). While the others meet lesbian taco Teresa (Salma Hayek), who expresses a passionate lust for Brenda, Frank learns the truth about the great beyond, all groceries taken are to be eaten by the humans, Firewater invented the story of the great beyond to maintain calm, a Twinkie (Scott Underwood) encourages Frank to visit the store's freezer section to find proof. Meanwhile the rest of the groceries that were purchased discover the truth for themselves, many of them are killed, cooked and eaten, sausage Barry (Michael Cera) manages to escape and wanders the outside world, before finding a Shopwell's bag, belonging to a human junkie (James Franco), to jump into. The junkie injects himself with bath salts, becoming intoxicated, he is able to see Barry and other groceries coming to life, the items realise that humans can only see them living while under the influence of bath salts, after sobering up the junkie assumes he experienced a dream, an accident occurs when he tries to throw Barry into boiling water, he ends up decapitated, the other groceries are free. Frank reunites with the others and tells that he intends to travel to the freezer to learn more about he what he learned, Brenda questions his motives, and rejects Teresa's advances due to the "rules", Frank manages to find a cookbook, he has proof of the truth of the fate of the groceries, using security cameras he warns the rest of Shopwell's, there is initially panic, but soon everyone doesn't believe him. Brenda is rescued by Frank from being purchased again, he is then reunited with Barry who has returned to Shopwell's with his new friends, he reveals that the humans can be killed and can be communicated with when under the influence of bath salts, Frank gives the store a sense of hope, apologising for not respecting their beliefs, and gives an aspiring speech. The foods devise a plan to shoot all human customers with toothpicks laced with bath salts, they can they see them for what they are, the humans are panicked and a battle ensues, meanwhile Douche gets control of Darren, inserting his nozzle into his anus, the foods overpower and kill all humans. Finally free, all foods of the store engage in a massive celebratory orgy, later though they are informed by the Stephen Hawking-esque wad of chewing gum (Scott Underwood) that he and Firewater have discovered something greater, they do not exist and are merely cartoon characters created for the entertainment of humans, and voiced by celebrities another dimension, a portal will allow them travel to this dimension, the foods decide to go there. Also starring Jonah Hill as Carl the sausage, Bill Hader as Tequila and El Guaco and Craig Robinson as Grits (hominy grits). Rogen, Wiig, Norton, Kroll and the others all voice their characters well, complete with a witty script containing plenty of food and drink based puns, I loved meatloaf singing Meat Loaf, and the over-the-top near pornographic orgy of foods doing everything from intercourse to oral and anal, it is funny, also slightly disturbing with living food being munched, it is slightly longer than perhaps necessary and the swearing is a bit samey, but overall it is humorous animated comedy. Worth watching!