Reviews WesternAnimation / Sausage Party

So egregiously foul, the respective levels of stupid and hate are actually wrestling with each other for the number one spot.

Where do I begin with this film?

This film seems to think that humor can get by on shock and gross out humor. That can work, but only when done right, and Rogen and co did it wrong. When it's not shock humor, it seems to rest on nearly all the foods being stereotypes; mainly black stereotypes, gay stereotypes and religious stereotypes. By trying to have having grown-up humor, this film is more childish. It's even too late to the starting line of saying "animated films can be adult too!" South Park already proved that with "South Park, Bigger, Longer and Uncut"; and they didn't need to sacrifice intelligence or strawman anyone to do it.

With that strawman remark, we get to the film's worst aspect. This film decided to engage in The War on Straw towards religion so hard, some of the religious foods are even grain products. This was the only part of the movie that made me laugh, and then only because of how wrong and stupid the message was. The rules of most religions exist for a reason, something most people can agree on whether or not they believe in God. It even has an ending like the Carl Sagan film "Contact" which goes out on an atheistic note of "though they find another world, there's no gods or religion, but turn to other people", but while I disagree with that message, at least "Contact" tried to be polite and helpful about it. In the end, the message to me here was "all religions are a lie, so do whatever you want", a message that even some atheists took issue with, let alone religious people like myself.

The pro-drugs angle was a bit more subtle, but just as asinine. Firewater (a Stephen Hawking expy - I see what Rogen did there), gained his "higher understanding" through drugs, which is also how the first human communicated with the film's food characters (via Bath Salts). Drugs are illegal for a reason and if anything impede intelligence rather than enhance it. All in a film which humans are the bad guys for eating food, another level of stupid ;if it were true, I don't think it'd matter to Rogen the next time he got the munchies (he is known to be quite the pothead at times, seriously).

The final nail in the coffin was the development. The animators were abused and blackmailed into working on the film, being forced into long shifts and threatened with being cut out of the credits. I would buy this movie, if only to compensate the animators for their suffering (God help them if any of the animators belong to any of the groups or creeds the film savagely lampoons), but that would also give the impression the film is worth selling. The only reason I wouldn't erase this film from existence if I could can be summed up as "Those who don't learn from the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them."