Crude, Offensive, as it is supposed to be

Rating: 6/10 (23 June 2020)

When I first saw this film being advertised in the cinema I simply wrote it off as being another one of those animated kid's films. It's not, and I certainly wouldn't be recommending people take their kids to see it. In fact when you see Seth Rogan's name attached to such as film, along with the actors that tend to congregate around him, then you sort of can sort of expect what it is going to be about. In fact, the innuendo in this film comes thick and fast, and honestly, looking at the title, I probably should have expected it when I first saw the poster. Oh, and the film is also full of expletives, particularly in the first couple of minutes.
Yeah, this film could be considered to be a send up of all of those animated kids films that float around the cinemaspehere. Basically it takes the concepts of giving inanimate objects life, and does it with food. That doesn't sound too odd, except the main character is a sausage, and the heroine is a bun, and if you look at one of the posters you might actually start to realise what they are suggesting. Honestly, I'm quite surprised that it went right over my head at the time, because that poster is pretty suggestive (and I suspect that there were a lot of innocent kids wanting to see the film, without knowing what the poster was actually referring to).
So, the film is about a sausage named Barry and a bun named Brenda. They are sitting on the shelf waiting to be picked up and taken to the great beyond, where they will live in harmony. Mind you, we all know what happens to food when they get taken out of the store, but the food doesn't, having been given this religion to keep them in hope. Mind you, there are also the ones that end up in the bin because they have gone stale, so there is that as well. However, what happens is that they are picked up, and there is a shopping trolley accident and Brenda and Frank end up on the floor, and thus go on a quest to return to their shelf in the hope that they can get into another package and go to the great beyond.
There is so much in this film that pokes fun at literally everything. Like you have this bagel named Sammy Bagel Jr, and this Havash. Now, these characters are implied to be Jewish and Muslim, and of course there is this argument over the fact that the bagels have taken over the part of the store where the Havash and his ilk live (no doubt a reference to the ongoing Israel/Palestinian conflict). Further down the track we have this firewater, which is supposed to be an Indian due to the comments of his land being taken away. In fact, he hides in this cave with other imperishables, that appear to represent oppressed minorities.
Yeah, this film is actually pretty clever, and offensive as well. It certainly does poke fun at religion, especially since I would be one to agree that religion is used to control people. The idea in this film was that the food were always terrified when they were taken because they knew that they were going to be killed, so the religion of the Great Beyond was created to calm those fears. Of course, when people end up coming back from the Great Beyond, they have stories of what is really going on.
Mind you, the end scene certainly does suggest that religion is pretty restrictive, but I guess they do have a point, especially when you do consider some of the denominations out there. I, obviously, have my own thoughts on the matter, but in the end I also suggest that if the whole idea comes down to being nice to people, and helping them out as opposed to simply living a self-centered life, then that is the problem. Of course, it does work both ways, but it certainly does give us some things to think about.