Better Than Expected, But Still Not Anything Great

Rating: 6/10 (1 November 2016)

The trailer for this film broke the internet. For a while, everyone was talking about it and claiming that it was going to be the best comedy of 2016. I wasn't really in the same boat. While I thought the idea of anthropomorphic food items discovering the truth about their existence was a creative idea, I failed to see how well it would carry a feature film and felt like it would've been better off as a short on SNL or some other sketch show. But after seeing it....it was...better than expected. Although that doesn't make the movie amazing by default.
Like I said earlier, the concept is pretty creative and they do surprisingly take a few advantages with it. There's some pretty creative ideas buried underneath and they try to work in some satire involving prejudice, immortality, and identity. They obviously don't go very deep in depth, but they do it decently for a film whose protagonist is a talking sausage.
But the absolutely biggest flaw with this movie is the fact that it's not really that funny. By far this movie's biggest faults that bogs it down, is its jokes. While they're not necessarily terrible and there were only a few that I actually groaned at, nothing about them were really laugh out loud hilarious or even worth much more than just a small chuckle.
While the film kind of fails in terms of comedy, I do at the very least give it props for its creativity. A good chunk of the satire works, it boasts a pretty imaginative concept, and the animation is actually pretty solid (despite the working condition controversy) that actually does add to the subject they're satirizing (Pixar.) So the film overall is just okay as a whole. It isn't great, but it is a lot more creative than it should be.
6/10.