Sausage Party - an R-Rated animated movie from Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg

You ever thought there weren't enough R-Rated animated movies in your life?

Behold the Red Band trailer:

Well. This was surprisingly terrifying.

I can't wait to hear the complaints from parents to took there children. to this movie, Remember when that happened for the South Park movie came out in 1999?

Can't say I remember the full details, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did that.

I wonder if the filmmakers should do what Rare did with Conker's Bad Fur Day and ENLARGE the rating to emphasize that this is not something you should show to your kids.◊

Because apparently parents can't read MPAA ratings.

edited 15th Mar '16 3:49:50 PM by TargetmasterJoe

Animation Age Ghetto is a trope for a reason.

I'm at work, so not watching a red-band trailer right now.

That said, given how much South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut did advertise its rating, I'm fairly confident that the people who took kids to it and complained afterwards did so deliberately. Though that's not what I remember about it. I remember two things:

1. People proclaiming that cartoons should be for kids - the Animation Age Ghetto as an Enforced Trope, if you will.
2. This being the only movie that I have ever been carded for (I was in college at the time and had already seen over a dozen R-rated films in the theater before technically being "of age" - for the record, Terminator 2: Judgment Day was the first, when I was 12, and my mom took me to that).

Hmm, this looks like it could be either really hilarious or really dumb. I might have to check it out.

But yeah, that was a surprising horrifying trailer.

I'm not sure if it will actually be successful, leading to more animated movies that are PG 13/R, but hey, I'm all for an adult animated movie. When was the last time we had that?

Same thing happened with Deadpool just last month.

It doesn't really look very interesting or creative, since its humor seems to rely primarily on crude humor and some weird black comedy with a lot of swearwords thrown in the meantime, if I am to judge it by the trailer. I'll wait and see but I'm not very hopeful for now.

It's a pity, a R-rated animated movie is something that could be really interesting rather than just the lowest brand of humor repackaged with CGI.

I disapprove of this - In fact, I forbid this (if I had the power, of course.).

There's a reason Western Animation continues to be looked down upon over anime. This is why - this is the kind of "humor" and "action" that needed to die with Fox's current animation output a long fucking time ago.

I'm not going to open up that Pandora's Box now, but anime's format, while artistically liberating in a lot of aspects, has a lot of caveats that come with it as well. It's a give and take sort of thing.

On the film itself, well it's the natural progression of the concept of "let's give personalities to these inanimate objects", with all the implied Fridge Horror that comes with it.

The only think imo that could make a concept like this even more fucked up would be the inevitable realization of the concept of rot, in that it's a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" scenario. If the protagonists lose, they die, if the protagonists somehow overcome the Lovecraftian horrors of the real world they get subjected to a fate worse than death before dying.

That said, while the concept is interesting, the execution is only alright. I think you can only really do a concept like this true justice through playing it as a straight black comedy, but the film seems more pitched with the same style of humor that Seth Rogan usually works with.

I just watched the trailer and... O_O

I can never eat food again.

I mean, holy shit! This isn't comedy, this is a horror movie! I don't care whether or not the jokes are funny, nothing can make up for the fact that the movie shows people being chewed up before your eyes! We see someone being FLAYED! What the hell happened to the Gory Discretion Shot?

How are we supposed to laugh at the rest of the film when it does this to us in the opening 20 minutes?

UGH that trailer was bad, WE GET IT you're made for adults! Spamming the f-note a million times isn't needed. ALSO-the deaths were needlessly horrifying for a comedy. I know I should be all "HA-HA their food" but it was just kinda creepy in all honesty. I hope it at least makes 21 million dollars, that way they'll at least breaks even.

I think the general idea is Black Comedy but I don't think it is hitting the mark.

For instance the scene "Frank" is looking around in what appears to be a fridge and sees a can of rice pushing its mararoni back into its body like a dying man pushing back his own entrails and also a cookie carrying around his half like someone carrying around the own bisected half of his body seems a bit needlessly graphic for the purpose of the joke.

I don't particularly care for the fact that this is continuing to reinforce the idea that any western adult animation, if it exists, has to be a crude and vulgar comedy.

Can we get something different, please?

edited 15th Mar '16 3:26:46 PM by wehrmacht

I'm all for more variety in animated media demographics, but this just seems like it's having its characters scream fuck in place of jokes.

The Saving Private Ryan reference with the Oreo got a chuckle out of me, though.

See, I'm not even sure if the f-bombs were even the joke, or if the only real joke in the trailer is the gratuitous horror of the trailer. That might sound like a compliant, but it isn't entirely.

I'm all for a more adult animated movie, been waiting years for one. But I was hoping for a serious action movie, not a raunchy comedy.

That's because those are almost uniformly the only way adult animation gets greenlit. Raunchy comedies are pretty much the only adult animated shows you will see in the west, barring a few exceptions here or there.

And that's a real shame. Especially since there are probably a ton of animators in the west who'd want to make a serious animated movie.

I can't tell if it's supposed to be a raunchy comedy or if it's being pitched as a raunchy comedy in marketing. Some scenes, like the gratuitous swearing with the baby carrots, would make me think its the former, but the sheer bleakness of the premise and a lot of the other scenes make me think otherwise.

It might be possible that it's some kind of horror film, I guess, but I would imagine it was more black comedy than anything else.

I'm hoping that it's a very black comedy pitched as a raunchy Seth Rogen film (which, mind you, I tend to enjoy).

It has a 9.6 already on IMDB. How is that even possible? It's not coming out until August.

Welcome to the magical world of IMDB, where The Dark Knight is the 4th best movie ever created.

It's very, very hype driven, and highly opinionated. It's overall a good metric for looking at what films are definite "must-sees", but it is by no measure the end all to aggregate review sites.