A good idea, but doesn't have enough to go the whole length

Rating: 4/10 (21 September 2016)

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In a big American supermarket, some foodstuffs including a talking sausage, secretly come to life when no one can see them, and dream of being chosen and taken to the 'great beyond.' It seems like their time has come, but then they all get separated by accident, and learn of the true fate that awaits them when they're taken away.
Seth Rogen spreads his brand of adult humour further with Sausage Party, expanding in to animated territory and turning the Disney/Pixar trend on its head with something apparently innocent looking that seriously isn't for kids. Its a subversive idea, that runs on the premise of being an animated film with loads of swearing and sexually explicit references, but it's a one joke premise that wears thin pretty quickly and doesn't really have the durability to sustain a feature length production, and would probably have worked better as a sketch.
The whole film sees food products re-imagined in humanistic form, which makes for some subtle references to real life people, and dutifully leaves political correctness to the side lines. And so we have the Israeli/Palestinian conflict re-imagined as a bickering bagel and taco, a permanently drunk bottle of Mexican tequila, as well as a whole parading army of Nazi sauerkraut (that want to exterminate 'the juice.'). It certainly pushes the boundaries, but has no great plot to guide in, and so ends up being just a pile of occasionally funny set pieces, rounding off with a big, massive 'food orgy', for want of anything more fitting.
Toy Story for adults, then. If only there was a bit of a 'Story', and one that had something more to it and helped keep you interested during the admittedly small length. **