Seth Rogen gets animated

Rating: 8/10 (27 August 2016)

To say the least, I was excited when I heard Seth Rogen was gonna make his first animated movie, about foods as well. This was long ago though and it felt like it would take forever before I saw it, but now I have and all I can say is...
It's a very funny movie, and well put together as well. The voice acting is top-notch from everyone in cast. Not just Rogen, but practically all of the voice actors brought something of their own. Of course, Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill and Edward Norton (Yep, he's actually in there) bring their fullest as they usually do, but names I'm less familiar with like Scott Underwood (his acting debut) and Nick Kroll did solid jobs as well. As for the characters, there are so many great ones, most of them have their own quirky personalities and their memorable one-liners. But my favorite has to be Teresa El Taco. I loved how she just kept hitting at Brenda all the time, and was so adorable as well. I rooted for her throughout the movie, and Brenda and Frank's romance didn't really feel that believable anyway.
Most of all though, I was either laughing or at least had a smile on my face for the majority of the time. Every scene had near-impeccable comic timing, and all the food puns I wanted were definitely present. Sometimes the silly puns were even funnier than the sex jokes they went with. Every time a new character was introduced, opportunities for new kind of jokes showed up. You gotta love when a poor almost used-up roll of toilet paper speaks with a frail shaky voice about the traumatizing s'hit he's been through. Or the war-esque sequence where every piece of food is dying, like the jelly for the peanut butter (easy joke, but still got to me). And I won't spoil what happened in it, but the talked-about food orgy which occurs at one point... It's a little gross and yes, really, REALLY stupid, but I laughed my ass off nevertheless. It's not *that* graphic however, not the NC-17 material Rogen & co. thought of it as, but still stands as one of the craziest scenes I've witnessed in an animated movie. Jesus.
There's a present undertone about religion as well (with the foods thinking they'll go to The Great Beyond, but it's really just a load of crap) which I think they handled well. Yes there are jokes which will bother some people (like most around Lavash, an Islamic stereotype), but I just loved them, not to mention Lavash wasn't such a horrible stereotype. He's been brought up on out-dated values, but isn't depicted as a crazy, deranged lunatic. I didn't mind the movie being atheist in nature either, and everyone believing in The Great Beyond weren't depicted as stupid, just misinformed.
If I have any negatives, it's only that despite my praise, my expectations were still too high. I almost expected The Interview levels of funny, but it didn't really reach that bar. Some parts of the movie felt a bit slow (like the fire circle scene) and a lot, but not *all* of the jokes hit like they should've. The ending is not a problem for me though, I freaking loved it. I know it has resulted in mixed opinions, but I didn't see what was the problem with it. You ask me, that's the best possible one they could have used.
Sausages, sausages for everyone! Big fu'cking thumbs up to this movie.