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

"Who Framed Wreck-It Ralph in Casablanca!"

I said similar, not identical. Don't miss the forest for the trees.

Can't have a forest without any trees at all, and all of yours are artificial.

...what exactly are you saying? What did you think I was talking about? It sounds like your pretty wildly missed the point of my previous post. :I

edited 11th Apr '16 10:09:35 PM by DrDougsh

Can't have a forest without any trees at all

So you're declaring they don't have any claims or argument...

and all of yours are artificial.

Except now you're saying they do have claims, they're just all fake, therefore they have an argument and...

...I have no idea.

Even I'm not completely sure what I meant.

I think that I was going for Sidetracked by the Analogy, but that didn't really end up being indicated.

Well, it's worth noting that the very first example on The Quisling is a general description of food mascots that are the food in question (like Charlie the Tuna for Star-Kist Tuna). You probably could do an interesting story analyzing that.

Of course, I don't think this movie is going to analyze it. They might reference it for a cheap joke, but I have little faith based on what's come out so far that Sausage Party is going to be that insightful.

Looking at that grandoldsausageparty tumblr link posted earlier, ye gods this script looks like a damn trainwreck. I know it's a Seth Rogen comedy, but man they're really laying it on thick that this is an adult comedy.

Ah well, at least it's lead to an amusing tumblr blog

So I haven't seen the script, but I'm guessing there's a lot of weed jokes, alcohol, sex jokes, and "lol the cartoon said fuck xD" in it, right?

Yes, they also have political commentary, rather gruesome deaths, a menstrual pad as a character, and apparently a food orgy (I didn't get that far before I quit reading).

edited 19th Apr '16 1:23:38 PM by Ecrivan

Someone else has pointed out that the food orgy is kind of ridiculous in how excessive it is.

Excessive and unneeded adult situations seems to be this movie's modus operandi. The idea of a food orgy is not very amusing if you ask me as the jokes likely all have been done before. Especially the ones involving hotdogs and buns.

....I honestly don't like to see works fail but unfortunately I hold very little hope for this one to succeed. It seems to be just another adult movie that misses the point of what makes a movie adult. It certainly does not need copious amounts of sex jokes, political commentary, and needless gore....

edited 19th Apr '16 8:35:22 PM by Ecrivan

Huh... just had a bit of a Fridge Logic moment about the premise. Food is almost universally made of other living things (outside of stuff like table salt, baking soda, and the like). Were those things also previously fully sapient, then killed and revived as Frankenstein creations with personalities as food products? How does that even work? I mean, who knows how many pigs actually make up the main character? (Yes, strictly speaking, you can make sausage out of just one pig, but in factories, the meat gets all mixed together, so outside of artisanal or homemade sausage, you're probably eating multiple pigs in a single sausage.) If you're going to follow that rabbit hole down, might as well go all the way.

There's something actually worse that happens right before the food orgy. And while part of it is off screen, it's still manages to be even more disgusting then the food orgy.

....And what is that?

I'm sickened but curious, please tell us.

I'm not entirely sure if I can say it here without being thumped. Hopefully putting it in spoiler tags will help.

So the Douche(as in, a literal douche, not a person who is a jerk) has this 'legion' of rats following him because he got left behind from the shopping cart, had been accidentally 'deflowered'(as in his tab with a flower on it was pulled off.) by one of a sausage that was left behind in the store, and thrown away into garbage. And apparently the rats don't kill him because... Who gives a damn? And he's using these rats to try and find the sausage who... 'Deflowered' him. And once he traps the rest of the sausage's friends(cause the sausage had his whole 'third act break off' moment a little bit beforehand), he begins to finger the rat 'follower' he named(I think it was Dangle or something. It had a broken nose and for some reason, the Douche seems to be really close to this rat in particular), off screen thankfully but you still see the foods getting grossed out as well as hearing the Douche get real into it, and uses the rat shit-covered finger as a way of torturing one of the foods by repeatedly shoving the finger in and out of the food's mouth while the Douche gets really into it. Apparently you are supposed to see the shit finger getting shoved in the other's mouth.

Whelp, I'm gonna vomit.

....I had a feeling that it had to do something with that character. That's not even funny, that's just disgusting on multiple levels....

It's official. I hate Seth Rogen.

...yeah, scenes like that just seem as if the film is going purely for shock value and shock values alone in its comedy. I'm kinda expecting a BvS situation in which it gets a relatively respectable high attendance in its opening week (people seeing the film / giving it a chance based on its concept) but WOD and (presumably) reviews results in it stumbling into freefall in the following weeks.

edited 30th Apr '16 11:29:20 AM by Yeow95

See, I liked some of Seth Rogan's previous movies. Pineapple Express in particular is a favorite of mine. But this movie........ It just sounds awful. Really, really awful. Especially that spoiler text Scott posted.

Theirs also stuff like constant parallels to Jews and Islamic people with the bagel and lavash, the graphic deaths of the human characters(For example, during the food battle at the climax, a obese guy has his head explode via Mentos sacrificing themselves into a soda bottle. They only give a few examples of what they felt were the best ideas for their big battle at the end), the Micheal Cera sausage confusing a literal piece of shit that has 'zombie' corn and peanuts for another sausage, the male foods apparently having genitalia{A cheese on a mouse trap screams about being unable to look away from rats eating his dick and the male foods apparently masturbate during the food orgy}, the woman we see 'killing' the food in the trailer being named Camille Toh, and a whole lot more obnoxious and obvious euphemisms and puns for sex and religion. Oh, and also an excessive amount of cursing. I lost count after a few pages. It seems like it's actually following the logic of "Swearing=comedy gold".

When I was reading the script for this film, I was talking about it with some friends on Skype. One of them dismissed as something like another Seth Rogen comedy that stoners will enjoy, IIRC. I can't help but think that if we get more films like this in the future, people will try passing them off the same way people would pass off bad, pandering kid's films. At the very least, i can see people trying to excuse this movie by using similar excuses for bad kid's movies.

These descriptions of the script make it sound like a film that's impossible to sit through.

It was nearly impossible for me to read. While I didn't feel like gagging, I repeatedly was getting frustrated with how juvenile and crass the script was. Their were so many point were I groaned or facepalmed due to how annoyed I was. And when I wasn't angry or annoyed, I was getting disturbed by just how graphic the script's descriptions got. I know that this is a crass adult comedy, but the script falls into the same problem something like Mr Pickles falls into where the writers think that being as grotesque, crass, juvenile, and just plain ugly as hell equals comedy.

This film really feels like an adult version of a typical forgettable children's(I say children's and not family since their is a difference between a film that aims to appeal just kids and a film that aims to be enjoyed by more then just kids) films.