Too Much Message...Not Enough Comedy?

Rating: 6/10 (19 September 2016)

Now it is certainly unsurprising that Sausage Party, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's latest film collaboration originally struggled to get financial backing as it is one hell of a weird watch.
What is most interesting about it is not particularly the shock value humour that the film plentifully employs (too much one could say) but the underlying commentary on social aspects in U.S. society including themes of the political & racial persuasion & most prominently the role religion or non-religion plays in society.
Now who in their right mind would of thought that I would be coming out with a comment like that in reference to this film?...not me for sure.
It must be said that given that this is a film that is supposed to be a comedy I actually thought it was lacking in out & out comedic moments, in fact the commentary/message that the film seems to channel actually overpowers or even takes over what I would consider to be the films lack of humour.
Like I said previously in reference to the shock value level employed by the film, too much of said humour is left to that device and given that the film is constantly employing it it only then lessens the effect of it, don't get me wrong I did laugh at quite a few of those moments but there is a point where it did start to wear thin with me.
The film itself is kind of a curiosity purely from its place in the cinematic landscape, I mean how many adult animated comedy films can you think of?...You could literally count them on one hand.
It's interesting me mentioning the above given that a film or even TV series that goes by the name of South Park is surely the godfather of adult shock humour and surely of great inspiration for this film yet what their cinematic exploits featured was not just a message but some ingenious musical routines and most importantly humour that never seems to let up on the viewer.
However the film does have to gain credit in doing something that I never thought possible as given that I'm a South Park veteran viewer it really does take something extraordinary to shock me and the apparent mutilation of food in a variety of ways really did have me grimacing with some regularity and they certainly didn't hold back on the 'adult' nature of the animated comedy.
It's certainly an interesting film project but it doesn't quite fulfill its purpose/potential given the ideas the film has to offer.