Sausage Out For Harambe

Rating: 4/10 (17 September 2016)

Sausage Party is the newest addition to the "Animated Movies For Adults That People Mistook Was For Kids" list that includes films like Team America and literally every animated movie above a PG rating. With a cast filled with funny comedic actors (and Edward Nortan), this toy story like film about food items journeying to discover the truth of the "great beyond", should be a laugh a minute... But sadly the cute cartoons doing and saying R rated things gets old really fast.
The main issue with Sausage Party is that I don't know if it tried too hard or didn't try hard enough. The film completely overuses its profanity especially the F bomb which in tern weakens the impact of the word both in shock value comedy and as an insult of any kind. The dialogue is basically what you would expect to hear in a Call Of Duty lobby on xbox, a barrage of nonsensical swearing that's only funny due to how completely pathetic it is. The film also heavily overuses food sex jokes and puns which, like swearing, is funny in moderation... Not every God damn sentence. Also the puns aren't exactly original or creative, some of them are but when the film is 89 minutes of food sex puns not every joke is going to work. Also may I add the food orgy scene at the end wasn't funny its just traumatising.
What I did find interesting though with this film was its symbolic approach to homosexuality and religion... OK the homosexuality implications became less than subtle as the film went along and ended up a little disturbing just like the rest of the film, but the religion metaphor was good. "The great beyond" being the food version heaven and the humans being... well... God's, as the food refer to them as.... OK nothing about this film is subtle I'll just admit this now. For me it isn't the symbol of religion that I liked, SPOILER ALERT, it was when Frank confronts and questions the food belief and how this as well in a way challenges Christianity in both their belief of a God and heaven as well as their beliefs of homosexuality. This to me is the redeeming quality as I liked how the film had an underlining meaning that, although not executed brilliantly, still got me thinking.
Overall, Sausage Party is a mentally scarring animated picture that attempts to make a statement about religion and homosexuality. It completely overuses the humour of watching a cartoon swear and have disturbing CGI sex but some jokes are actually quite funny. Is it as good as other animated films for adults like Team America? No, but I would say its worth a watch.... Just don't bring your kids along... Unless they play a lot of xbox