You need to be high on Drugs to enjoy this

Rating: 4/10 (25 October 2016)

I imagine that Seth Rogan and his buddies Ariel Shaffir and Evan Goldberg, were unbelievably stoned out of their minds when they came up with the idea for this film and well, I guess you kind of need to be incredibly stoned out of your mind to enjoy it. Unless of course, you're child in an adult's body that still get's off on immature stupidity passed off as comedy.You know what I'm talking about...haha sex jokes, bathroom humor, stereotypes, and vulgarity for the sake of vulgarity. Nothing that hasn't been done to death before, just not by talking tacos, hotdogs, douche nozzles (I'm not kidding), and Meat Loaf as an actual meatloaf. If this is your thing, here's your movie. However, just know that despite the A-list celebrities that lent their voices to the film such as Kristen Wiig, Salma Hayek, James Franco, Jonah Hill, etc...nothing here is Academy Award worthy. Absolutely nothing, at all. Then again, this isn't Schindler's List or The Shawshank Redemption, it's effing Sausage Party. Take it or leave it. Personally, I'll leave it. Despite being an animated film, this is so very glaringly obviously NOT for kids. Parents, stick to Pixar and keep your kids away from this one. The schtick here is that it's an "adult" animated film. While that's been done many times before, this film goes out of it's way, sometimes so desperately, to show you how "not for kids" it really is; in short: it tries too hard and because of that the dialogue feels forced and awkward at times. While it attempts to touch on real world issues like the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, religion and belief in the after-life, conservative vs liberal beliefs on sex, etc. It doesn't really work and all of that is just seems like the writers siting around going "haha, what if we did THIS? Wouldn't that be so cool, you guys?" in between puffs of ganja. There are some scenes that are genuinely funny but they're far and few in between an hour and a half of dumb unfunny prepubescent jokes fired off in rapid succession for shock value and again to reinforce the idea that the viewer is watching something controversial and adult despite it's colorful cartoony polish. After 45 minutes of this mess, you'll be praying for it to quickly come to an end and when it finally does, it's dumb and uneventful. There's no great climax here. It just sorta ends. This is one of those movies that should be reserved for when you're flipping through Netflix and can't quite seem to decide on what to watch. It'll fill your boredom for awhile but it's nothing to be remembered.