Sausage Party Review

Sausage Party is the epitome of a Seth Rogen film.

–Mild Spoilers Below–

“Sausage Party” follows the story of Frank (voiced by Seth Rogen), a hot dog that falls out of his packaging when two shopping carts collide with one another. During this journey back his aisl, he discovers the truth about what humans (referred to as “gods”) do to food once purchased from the grocery store. He is joined by Brenda (voiced by Kristen Wiig), a hot dog bun, Kareem (voiced by David Krumholtz) a lavash, and a bagel named Sammy Bagel Jr. (voiced by Edward Norton), as they attempt to get back to their aisle to be chosen again by the “gods”.

While that is the main story of this movie, there are plenty of side-stories that went on throughout the film. There is a revenge story of a douche (voiced by Nick Kroll) who believes that Frank and Brenda caused the shopping cart accident that left him getting thrown out, a story about Barry (voiced by Michael Cera) who is a deformed hot dog trying to get back to the store to warn others of the dangers of humans after being purchased, and then a trope about the non-perishables who plot to keep the secrets of the humans from the rest of the food. There is a lot going on in this movie packed in the hour and a half running time. Despite these happenings, everything is paced evenly and the story flows well. The cuts between each scene leaves one hanging , wondering what could happen next.

Not only is this movie packed with dense storylines and characters, but all of the references in this movie make it great and flesh out its world of foods. Each food has its own aisle in the store, and as the main characters traverse the store to get back to their aisle they visit quite a few different aisles, each with their own stereotyped cultures. For example, the alcohol aisle is a dance club with each different kind of liquor taking on the stereotype of the country of origin–e.g.Canadian beers walking around just saying “sorry” to everyone and Mexican tequilas being overly upfront about XXX. The side-characters and environments in this movie are brilliantly displayed to the point that I can’t help but question about other potential aisles not explored in the movie.

There is a huge overarching theme devoted to the social satire of this movie that I was not expecting. Fans of “This is the End will love this movie for it’s self-aware ideology. Nearly every racial stereotype and religion is up for roasting in this movie. Any subject is pushed to its boundaries with jokes and silliness that I believe will go over people’s’ heads, and I’m sure there will also be people who will be wholly offended by this movie by the time it is over. This movie is exactly what one could expect from a Seth Rogen preview. Nonetheless, this movie is a great to watch and anyone looking for a good satirical comedy should check it out… just make sure there are no kids around when watching it because the sex jokes are abundant in “Sausage Party”.