A totally underwhelming attempt at Adult Animation.

Rating: 4/10 (14 September 2016)

This is the latest film to join the oh so great Seth Rogen library of stoner style films, which also happens to be animated. The film attempts to bring a new, more adult dimension to commercial animated movie-making, by making it an R-rated raunch-fest. Sadly, it almost completely fails at this goal. It really is a film with very little substance.
Ever since this film was released, I've been hearing and seeing an insane amount of hype about it all over the internet, claims that it's a smart and funny animated adult movie. Bearing this in mind, and the fact that I've enjoyed some of the previous films by Seth Rogen and his loyal team of writers, I went into this movie with quite a bit of excitement.
The film is about a sausage named Frank, who, along with all of the other shopping items one can possibly find in a supermarket, worship us human beings as gods. They all believe that when they are picked up off the shelf and taken out of the market, they have been "chosen" and will be entering heaven. Little do they know what we really do to them.
As Frank tries to seduce a hot dog bun named Brenda, played by Kristen Wiig, he embarks on a journey of finding his place in the world and reuniting all of the diversified shopping products in order to live together in harmony, away from fear and suffering.
The plot is based on a thought provoking concept, that is the purpose of life in a world controlled by systems that we sometimes do not know very much about. It is the extremely crude and obscene humor, which is not always a bad thing in a movie, that, when mixed with this particular plot-line, does not mix well.
The film also tries to get creative with the deaths of the various food characters, and while sometimes these are well done, at other times, they're totally pointless, and even nonsensical. The animation gore also gets old pretty quickly.
The film tries to get our minds thinking about existence, while at the exact same time throwing at at us all sorts of the exact same thing, which does not extend further than sex jokes with a sprinkle of stoner comedy and underwhelming gore, which all comes out quite immaturely.
The good things to be said are mostly on the animation, which can be impressive at times. It is also just cool to see a talking sausage. I found myself appreciating some of the voice acting as well, particularly the voice acting done by Rogen himself, Kristen Wiig, and Michael Cera.
That's about it. Sitting here right now, I really can't think of any other things I really liked about this movie. Seth Rogen fans may enjoy it a bit more than I did, but I just could not have much of a good time watching it.
All in all, this is a totally unpleasant movie and, when the sex jokes and food-gore are stripped away, this film completely fails to live up to the hype. Fans of this type of humor might take a bit more out of the experience, but anyone else should save their money and time.