A very smart film that sadly misses some laughs

Rating: 6/10 (13 September 2016)

When the first trailer for Sausage Party came out I was shocked by both the name and the trailer. The concept sounded so amazing that I knew I had to check it out and so I did and while I enjoyed it a lot I also found myself not laughing a whole lot. Which was strange to me. The cursing and the violence started to blend into the rest of the film and in the end just left me more intrigued by what the movie was trying to say than what the jokes were.
Sausage Party is a idea that was came up by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. This idea however came along while they were doing a little AMC show called "Preacher." Coincidence? I think not. Preacher is a TV show based on a comic about a man named Jesse Custer who gains the power to basically make anyone do what he wants them to do. This comic book is highly renowned for its commentary on the state of Religion at that time. It talks a lot on the idea of God and him being more of a dictator than anything else.
Sausage Party does the same thing in this film. It makes a religious allusion that "God" is the humans and the food is us in our world today. We see God as the amazing figure and don't ever question why he was put there in the first place, and I love that about the film.
Its social commentary was so good and fun that I had to give this movie a 6/10.
Now if only we could get more jokes that hit