Wildly unfunny

Rating: 3/10 (26 October 2016)

I'm a huge fan of both Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill. The pair have delivered some of my favorite movies over the last decade. The thought of an R rated comedy also appealed to me. I'm a big fan of 'Family Guy', 'American Dad', 'South Park' etc. and would happily watch a feature length film of them with an R rating (the 'South Park' feature film is one of my favourites of all time). So all the signs were positive going into 'Sausage Party'. Then the movie started and it got off to quite a clunky, awkward and stunted beginning. That's okay though I thought, they'll ease into things as it goes along and the jokes will start to flow. I waited, and waited, and waited some more. At about the halfway point I realised I hadn't laughed once, didn't care in the slightest about the story, and was frankly bored out of my mind. What was this nonsense? What part of this exactly was I supposed to be finding funny?
Did they think that the concept alone, of food being alive, could carry an entire 90 minutes of film, and that consequently they didn't have to write any real jokes? That's how it came across. I read that Seth Rogen had a hard time getting this picked up by film studios because of its dark nature. I now suspect they were just being polite in saying that was the reason, and truthfully they just knew that it was an incredibly weak script. To say I was disappointed would be an understatement. It won't put me off anyone involved, but I do hope they steer clear of the animated genre from now on. Stick to what you do best. You're brilliant at that.