Sausage Party review

Rating: Null/10 (4 October 2016)

Sausage party brought in a whole new kind of movie into the film industry. It is the first ever R- rated CG-animated film. Because of this, it created much hype around the country as many people were dying to see this movie when it first came out. Unfortunately, it did not live up to the hype. As matter of fact, it didn't even come close. Not only is the movie disgusting and corny, it's just not very funny.
The movie opens with all the items in the store singing a song dedicated to the gods. These gods are humans who arrive every day to shop and buy these items and supposedly take them to "The Great Beyond." Seth Rogan stars as Frank, a hot dog in a package of eight. As all the items start singing in the morning when the market opens, one can hear Rogan's horrifying laugh to start off the movie on a bad note. The tone and enthusiasm in Rogan's voice in the first scene indicates that the whole movie is going to be the obnoxious laugh of the sausage Frank. As the movie progresses, it only proves this point to be correct. Towards the end of this movie, Franks laugh is like hearing nails on a chalkboard repeatedly. It's hard to have bad acting in an animated movie, but Sausage Party accomplished that.
Yes, swearing food is humorous at first, but the 100th time a sausage curses in a ten-minute scene seems to be a bit excessive. The language chosen in this movie loses its originality after the first two scenes when cursing food becomes the ordinary. By the time the movie hit the last scene, I was worn out of food items cursing and having sex, praying the movie will finally be over soon.
The overall plot of Sausage Party had some potential. Making a movie of this degree though is asking for failure. With this plot, the movie would have had to have been directed and produced brilliantly to make Sausage Party worthwhile to go see. This did not happen. The whole movie is a herd of food items swearing at each other while a hot dog and bun go on a quest to make love. One can tell at the start of the movie that the film will end with them eventually being together, making the movie very predictable and not suspenseful. It's a rare site to see a movie like this nail it, and you can add another check mark in the loss column.
So ask yourself. Should you go see this movie because of it's one of a kind nature? I would say no. The film was put together by two people who live in the same fantasy. The film wants you to see it the way they do and live in the fantasy with them. I can tell you from experience that this is a very hard task. The acting, language, and plot scared me away from liking this movie. A faulty movie is not made better by cursing vegetables or horny sausages'. It's still simply an inadequately made movie.