IF YOU ACCIDENTALLY take kids to the Seth Rogen adult animated feature Sausage Party, donât fret. There are around 100 uses of the word âfuckâ in the first three minutes. So youâll know what to do. But should you stick around? Well, if youâre a fan of excessive profanity, casual misogyny, an abundance of racism, and are okay with only a couple of good laughs in a 90-minute movie, then by all means hang around.
The plotâconceived by Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and Jonah Hillâis a weak grasp at themes found in South Park, which was obviously Sausage Partyâs primary inspiration. Here, anthropomorphized food products canât wait to be picked up by grocery shoppers, believing that heaven awaits beyond the supermarketâs sliding glass doors. Though Frank (a sausage voiced by Rogen) tries to spread the truth, heâs pursued by a vengeful douche (Nick Kroll)âwho, yes, is an actual douche.
Unrelenting puns are the go-to jokes in this script, and each food or drink product is assigned a personality based on race: A flatbread is given a stereotypical Middle Eastern makeover, while his enemy, a bagel, is a Jew with a heavy, Woody Allen-esque accent. Interestingly, neither actor voicing these characters is Middle Eastern (David Krumholtz) or Jewish (Edward Norton)âthough Norton is white and has proclaimed himself an âhonorary Jewâ... so thereâs that! Similarly, Bill Hader (also a white guy) plays âFirewater,â a Native American bottle of booze (no thank you), who grunts and uses sign language much like the racist âIndian Chiefâ in Disneyâs 1953 feature Peter Pan.
This just in: Itâs not 1953. And whether or not Rogenâs overarching messageâthat religion is a bunch of baloneyâis progressive, or if Sausage Party contains a couple of very funny scenes (including a glorious food orgy), thereâs no getting around it: This movie is fucking bullshit.
Excuse the French.