What You'd Expect from a Sausage Party Movie

Rating: Null/10 (2 December 2016)

Sausage Party (2016)
** (out of 4)
From the pothead mind of Seth Rogan comes this adults only animated feature that takes place in a grocery store. The basic plot is that the food has been led to believe that if they are chosen and taken to the outside then they have a great life ahead of them. They do realize that the Gods (humans) are actually taking them out of the store to eat them. A hot dog and a bun, madly in love with each other, must try to convince people of what's really going on.
You know, I didn't hate SAUSAGE PARTY but at the same time you can tell that a bunch of stoners wrote it. I can just imagine the group sitting around a table, passing a joint around and once their minds are blown they begin talking about weird stuff and the idea of talking food comes up. I can see them grabbing the various foods in the house and acting out what would eventually come the screenplay. All of that is fine and good. Back in my younger days when I smoked I came up with some pretty funny and weird things.
This movie would have worked a lot better had it been a thirty-minute short film because clocking in at 87-minutes there are just way too many jokes that don't work and on the whole the film just really seems to drag. After all, there's really not much of a plot or any sort of character development. You're basically watching talking food carry on and say a bunch of dirty words and sexual innuendo. Again, some of it is funny but for the most part I just didn't think enough of the jokes worked. The vocal performances are fine. The animation is great. It's just not funny enough to really be worth watching.