![]() The film is set in a world of sentient food and groceries. And I feel I must point out, the film appeared to be even funnier the more ale one consumes. So, what's my take for the Our Take portion of this review? Funny! "Sausage Party" is a filthy, funny smut-fest. I really had to have a clear head while reviewing the film and for the voyage home. I was on the job, man! Plus, I was far from home in a new city I am still learning to navigate, and I was there by myself. The studio representatives served free beer to the audience and press! No, I did not partake. I apologize to anyone reading this who may have been sitting near me.Īnd, two, something happened at this preview that has NEVER happened in my nearly 20 years of being a paid, professional (cue the canned laugh track) critic. SWEATING! And I mean, like, workout at the gym, torture on the treadmill, Norm Peterson "We could grow rice" perspiration. I took so many notes during this flick that at the end of it, I was actually. The profanities, crudities, imitative behavior, sex, violence, drugs, and all-around bad behavior come at the audience fast and furious. Folks, this flick is a hard, HARD R rating! I took 20 pages of notes from beginning to end. OUR TAKE: 6.5 out of 10 Two very notable things happened during my preview screening earlier this week for "Sausage Party." One, as you can imagine, I take some pretty thorough and serious notes when reviewing for. Meanwhile, Frank has drawn the ire of the Douche (voice of NICK KROLL) and also learned the awful truth of life and death from Firewater, a mythic Native American product (voice of BILL HADER) and vows to wake up all of the other grocery-store items. He narrowly escapes and winds up in the house of a Druggie (voice of JAMES FRANCO) who may hold the key to getting the humans and the groceries to battle on an even playing field. Others are more "lucky" and make it to the cashier and into the Beyond, including hot dogs Carl (voice of JONAH HILL) and Barry (voice of MICHAEL CERA).īut Barry soon comes to learn the truth that a holocaust awaits all who are bought and taken back to the Gods' homes for consumption. The "suicide" causes a chain reaction that results in numerous products falling out of the patron's cart, including Frank (voice of SETH ROGEN) the hot dog his girlfriend, Brenda (voice of KRISTEN WIIG), the hot dog bun Sammy the bagel (voice of EDWARD NORTON) and Lavash the Jewish flatbread (voice of DAVID KRUMHOLTZ). So, when he is selected a second time, he purposefully flings himself out of the grocery cart and shatters on the floor below. But when a Honey Mustard (voice of DANNY McBRIDE) is returned to the store, he comes back frightened at the horrors he saw. buy) them off the store's shelves and take them to the Great Beyond (whatever lies beyond the market's sliding glass doors). PLOT: In a world where foods and supermarket products are sentient, each day at the supermarket begins with the various groceries hopeful that the "Gods" (the store's human customers) will "pick" (i.e. QUICK TAKE: Animated Comedy: Sentient foods and other supermarket items learn the terrible truth about what happens to them when they are purchased from the shelves of their supermarket. ![]() (2016) (voices of Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig) (R)
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