imaginative obscenity

Rating: 6/10 (17 December 2016)

Shopwell's Grocery Store has all the products. Unknown to the humans, the products are alive. They believe that people are Gods. When they get picked, they go out to the heaven-like Great Beyond. Frank Wienerton (Seth Rogen) is a wiener and Brenda Bunson (Kristen Wiig) is a hot dog bun. They are overjoyed to be picked but they fall out of the shopping cart. With Kareem Abdul Lavash (David Krumholtz) and Sammy Bagel Jr. (Edward Norton), they go in search for the truth. They are joined by Teresa del Taco (Salma Hayek) and hunted by the evil Douche (Nick Kroll). Meanwhile, deformed sausage Barry (Michael Cera) arrives in the kitchen and discovers the true nature of the Great Beyond.
There is no arguing that this is imaginative and obscene. It gets full marks for being ridiculously childish and high satire at the same time. Its originality wears thin after awhile. I think it has a lot to do with the constant swearing. It never stops and everybody does it. There is a childish glee that is derived from it at first but it becomes a crutch for the humor. I also would have liked for the group to stay together. There is so much wackiness that any additional chaos is not necessarily welcomed. Instead of being involved, I do fall out of the story until the over-the-top party in the end.