In a bizarre parody of (I guess?) Toy Story, we get the story of walking, talking food products as they live their lives in a grocery store. As we might expect, fun and silliness turns to horror as the food is brutally consumed. Conceptually, it's brilliant fodder for some rotten food puns and grocery groans, and the film makes the most of each and every one. One-liners fly faster than we can catch them, and the constant innovation in design and delivery of each character and their world is fascinating.
Obviously with a title like Sausage Party, there will be a fair amount of sexual humor. But if you had told me that this madcap absurdist comedy would view more like a graphic porno, I would have laughed it aside. But it does. While I have no problem with witnessing offensive humor and animated food celebrating orgiastic sexuality, and I laugh-cried through most of the picture, it's just not my cup of tea. I left the theater feeling hollow and annoyed and more than a little sorry I had gone. Only so much pleasure can be taken from the animation, the humor, and even the surprisingly deep themes of truth and fantasy, hope and courage, and (arguably) embracing a diverse community.
If you know me, you know comedy is not my thing, and I'm pretty picky with animated movies. Ultimately, I can only take so much deep-fried crude humor in 90 minutes.
IMDb: Sausage Party
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