Food Wars: An Awful Recipe For Disaster

## This is not another *Sausage Party* for kids, right?

In September 2009, Anaya Animation made what is perhaps the most delectable dish ever cooked in the history of Marcanese animation: *Food Town,* whipped up with several yummy jokes, lovable quirky characters, and nice 50s animation style from the Lord & Miller duo. Seven years later, Actors 3D Entertainment and Ankora Films stirred up too much lard with *Food Wars,* the 2016 animated movie that severely lacks the same key ingredients that made *Food Town* such a great movie in the first place. And yes, I am comparing this piece of turd with another animated film that came out on the exact same day: the shockingly inappropriate *Sausage Party* from Seth Rogen and his crew.

### -FilmCriticGuy

Before making comparison, I would like to present you what is perhaps the most weird execution to an amazing food concept. I would also like to introduce you Benny The Banana - voiced by Seinfeld with vast references to his own show for sure - who gets tired of getting hanged by palm trees and instead heads out to the local Walmart grocery store. There, he sees a bunch of friends like him and decides to tag himself as plantain instead despite him being a banana, only for some small girl named Amy to notice the innocent banana creature at the food court. For five minutes exact, Ava plays with her new friend and from there... Benny gets dumped to the garbage can, thinking that landing would save his life. He's not the only one alone, since Frank (Seth Rogen) and the Food Gang rescue him from the greater doom, yet he wishes to go back with Amy when Frank tortures him like banana split. The Food Gang complain about the existence of themselves, something obvious that kids do understand but not foods, and take their first steps towards McDonald's, where they raid several employees for free Happy Meals. Later, they attend some food festival having to do with Watermelon Guy and recruit him after his buddy got smashed by a person's head.

Now, why am I comparing these Sony computer animated movies? One being some raunchy CG product that became the first R-rated film of its kind and the other one... an awkwardly sentimental PG-rated comedy done wrong? I am comparing both of these computer animated movies because of how they exactly look alike: they are films centered on the lives of living rebel foods, American consumerist culture, and the idea that making an animated movie only for kids is total garbage. Well, at least not for *Food Wars*, but what's surprisingly awful about this film would be the fact that it was originally going to be an adult animated film. Yes, that's right, Ankora's first R-rated comedy and nothing else like Actors 3D's family films. I'm all here for some parody humor, but *Food Wars* does it perhaps the most egregious and saccharine way when it comes to racist jokes about some Mexican ghost pepper and the sexist attitude of Pita & Falafel. Doesn't help either that Steve Buscemi voices the maniacal cook: a two-star French chef psychopath named Douche who likes flirting with wine. Not even the totally loafsome characters or its absolutely puntastic script could save *Food Wars* from being such complete mess. The creators of *Sausage Party* knew exactly what Ankora wanted, and the rather horrible execution here seems like if the studio who brought *Jengaman* to the table has gone completely out of mind, like the strange atheistic frank voiced by Seth Rogen. There's nothing really good about *Food Wars,* and it only gets worse by the second act and so on... the torture of breathing food just never stops, and the Nazi imagery here is made the more obvious with Frank's hate speech.