Great movie held together by poor comedy

Rating: 4/10 (15 August 2016)

Sausage Party was one hell of a great movie. It just wasn't for me.
Sausage Party is like Toy Story, but with food. The food live in a grocery store and look forward to when gods come and take them out of the store to the Great Beyond where they'll live out their wildest dreams. However, they're about to learn the horrible truth about what the gods plan to do with them once they leave the store.
This movie is raunchy as hell. Possibly the dirtiest comedy I've ever seen.
The biggest surprise to me was how intelligent the film was. The entire movie was a giant metaphor for religion and the dangers of blindly following a belief system at the detriment of those around you. But, in film hell bent on offending everybody, I actually feel this was handled rather tactfully, and rather than coming off as anti-religion, it managed to properly convey a message of pro- tolerance, and pro-knowledge, and comes to a conclusion that even if you can't agree with someone's belief, you won't accomplish anything by shoving your beliefs down their throats, which is a message many people need to learn.
It's certainly funny and thought provoking, but amid these moments, the movie is glued together with the same tired weed jokes you come to expect from a Seth Rogen film, and these just aren't funny anymore.
Also, funny the first time, is seeing a cute piece of food swear. However, the writers failed to realize that this shock humour really only works once.When they made the decision to pointlessly insert expletives into nearly every line in the movie all they did was take their intelligent writing and made it come off as juvenile.
Sausage Party would have probably been better off as a short film. Still, it was funny. I won't watch it again, but even at 5/10, it may be worth it to check it out.