Seth Rogan does 3D

Rating: 6/10 (8 December 2019)

Sausage Party is a Seth Rogan film, indeed, in the closing credits he appears several times, and that's the problem. Even though the animation is as clever as anything you'll see out of Dreamworks or Pixar, this is still a Seth Rogan film with, now, very familiar style of humour. I did laugh out loud once, and to be fair, the animation (if not the humour) was sufficiently inspiring for me to see the movie through to the end. Hollywood as well as Britain has a similar problem with comedy that is does with sci-fi, in particular superheroes, zombies and anything initially successful, in that it will endlessly repeat such successful themes. From America come Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell comedies, one after another, which to some of us appear more of the same. From Britain come huge sex-based comedies such as Little Britain. Seth Rogan comedies follow a similar pattern, although his movies This Is The End (2013) and The Interview (2014) did represent something classically different. In the same way Sausage Party represents something different again. It's still basically powered by massive sexual innuendo and stoner culture however, like almost all of his work. Much as I'm sure that that is exactly why people love him, for those that find such humour immature, then I think it important in a review to point out that that is still very much what one is getting into when you elect to see this show.