Reviews WesternAnimation / Sausage Party

If you have issues with swearing, sex, or stereotypes, you will hate it. Otherwise, you will probably like it.

First off, I wanted to make it crystal clear: this movie is aimed at a specific type of audience. One that has been desensitized to foul language, sex in all its forms, and various stereotypes. If you aren't completely certain that you can stomach all of these three, then do not watch this movie. To clarify, this film contains:

• Characters swearing left and right, sometimes to a ridiculous degree. As a non-native speaker and a person who frequently browses Internet, I have largely been desensitized to swears, but even then, I found it a bit excessive how much the characters swear, to the point of it sometimes feeling unrealistic. In some cases, it actually makes me wonder if these characters even know how to talk without swearing. And seriously: in what universe can a cashier in a supermarket call a female customer a "fucking MILF" over the microphone and have that same customer react with "Ohoho, you're too kind"?

• Sex jokes. These bothered me the most, primarily because all they seemed to amount to was "LOL SEX JOKE, LOL PENIS IMAGERY, LOL BUTTS AND CROTCHES!". The Internet has, again, desensitized me to all that, but even then I found myself rolling my eyes and thinking "Well, that's stupid" whenever a gag like this popped up. On the upside, the movie does avoid getting gross, so you don't have to worry about stuff like the rat fisting from the leaked script (if you don't know what this is about, then be thankful). Even so, prepare for numerous instances of food items very explicitly talking about wanting to bone one another, various close-ups of butts and crotches, even one quick gag about a used condom, and of course, the infamous orgy at the very end (which, again, to me comes off as simply stupid, but if you feel that it's too much for you, then you won't lose anything if you walk out at this point).

• The stereotypes. Cultural, racial, anything goes. Not much else to say here.

Now, with this established, how is the movie as a whole?

I must say, I found myself fairly entertained. The story is well-crafted and unfolds in a very intriguing way, and seems to center around the concept of religion and how we should all accept our differences no matter what we believe in. It's represented by how the food items believe that the humans are gods that will bring them to paradise, and refuse to believe in reality even when the proof is shoved right in their faces. The characters are pretty enjoyable and you do end up caring about them. And boy, do I love how the animators got creative with the designs of locations and foodstuffs.

...Huh. I didn't leave myself much space for the actual review. Um.

But I guess that sums it up pretty well. What you're going to remember this movie by will be a thoughtful story, good characters and great animation, all of which is excessively sprinkled all over with low-brow jokes, swearing, and general offensiveness. But if you don't have a problem with that, then I'm sure you'll like it fine.