Had promise, but isn't all that funny

Rating: 3/10 (21 September 2018)

There are very few major Hollywood studio animated movies made for adults, so it's a double shame when one of them does not work, since the failure probably won't encourage more to be made. "Sausage Party" is unfortunately one of those failures. What makes it even a sadder failure is that you see a better, cleverer, and funny movie seemingly being held back by a creative team that has the wrong idea of what an adult audience would like. I will admit that the movie is fairly well animated for what wasn't a mega budget. And occasionally there is a gag that will make the viewer smile or even chuckle a little. But unfortunately, the level of humor for the most part is pretty wrong-headed. We get offensive racial stereotypes, questionable attempts at humor (such as a "rape" sequence involving food products), and the belief that characters constantly uttering foul language is the stuff of hilarity. I wasn't bored, but all the same I sat in my TV chair pretty stone-faced throughout. If you are looking for animation made for an adult audience, look for an offering from Japan instead.