Don't Waste Your Money on This Poor Product

Rating: 3/10 (14 August 2016)

The best thing I can say about this movie is that the animation was really good for a second rate studio. It was very expressive and the designs were mostly great. And that just saddens me to imagine how much effort and many days of their lives the animators wasted making this. I also had no idea that Paul Rudd or Edward Norton could voice act. And then the positives stop.
Every joke, literally every joke is either a pun about sex, or the punchline is, "Oh wow! An animated character is saying the F word! That's not supposed to happen! It's a cartoon! And that's not supposed to happen in a cartoon! It's just like...what?!?!? It's a cartoon! They aren't supposed to curse!!!!!!" Personally, I prefer jokes. I didn't laugh, chuckle, grin, or even sneer the entire duration of the movie. I held the exact same disappointed look from the second the first trailer started (Resident Evil 6), to the end of the credits. What you get in this movie is uncomfortable silence. I only heard one person laughing the entire movie, and my theater was full of about 30 other people. The only reason I can fathom people laughing at all the sex puns or the cursing is because they grew up being told those things are wrong. Turning it into a joke undermines its value in a story telling purpose. Even in Bojack Horseman, where almost every time the main character has sex it is turned into a joke, it is still used to tell or show things about the characters. It isn't used for shock value. It's used in a shocking way to build a character. And that brings me to the story. The plot has the exact same structure of every generic kid's movie. Making fun of said plot does not make it any better then the movies that are actually doing it. Maybe if it made fun of those types of movies better, and then vastly deviated from their typical structure it would have been interesting. But in the end, this movie plays out exactly like every Pixar, Dreamworks and Aardmon picture. However, the reason so many of their movies work is because they have characters you care about and an interesting setting. This has neither. A supermarket where nobody eats anything inside? Unlikely. A jerk hot dog that is trying to tell everyone faith is a lie, and a vapid bun that just wants to get back home so she can sleep with her man? I don't care about either of those motivations enough to latch onto the characters. A world were food, toilet paper, and a douche is alive, but napkins, pillows, table cloths, doors, books, clothing and kitchen cutlery aren't? You lost my suspension of disbelief. I'm aware it's a cartoon. I'm aware of the argument "cartoons don't have to follow logic." But every cartoon has some sort of logic, some sort of consistency, some sort of cutoff. What is it in this one? Food and Bathroom products? Why wasn't anything else in the bathroom alive when they showed the toilet paper? Anything sold in a grocery store? What about napkins and kitchen cutlery? It's just lazy writing so they could make a joke about how "it's so effed up that if toilet paper was alive it's entire life would be wiping poop out of butts!". If this movie was written by someone else they might have been able to catch these things. If this movie was reduced to a PG-13, it might have had value in being a really good introduction into questioning faith. But as is, especially for a film aimed at "mature" adults, non of it's political, social, or religious commentary is very deep. Every instance I can think of is just "hey, crackers pushed the native American stereotypes out of it's display", or "hey, Arabs and Jews like hummus! Why do they hate each other so much??", or "hey, you don't know for sure if you're gay until you try it!" and then theirs nothing more said. It is a reference to a subject. It isn't saying anything deep or meaningful about the subject. It's just bringing it up for the sake of a joke. That isn't funny, mature, or intelligent. There is no value to this movie as long as it is aimed at early to mid 20 year olds. The entire thing treats it's audience as if they have the mind set of 14 year olds, constantly referencing really deep and philosophical things, but never actually discussing them beyond that. This is the equivalent of Soul Plane.