Film

Sausage Party

Name: Sausage Party
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Released: 2016
Cast: Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill, Bill Hader, Michael Cera

A raunchy animated comedy that treats grocery items as characters with genuine existential dread. Seth Rogen and friends voice a sausage and his companions grappling with horrifying truths about their purpose. It's aggressively crude, surprisingly dark, and aims for both absurdist laughs and real pathos about mortality and meaning.

TMDb rating

2.9

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you laugh hardest at filthy, profane comedy that takes a cartoon's cheerful innocence and bends it toward adult gags, and you don't mind the shock being the point.

Skip it if the gags are relentless and leaning hard on the same crude beats, so if blunt sexual humour and nonstop swearing wear you down, it will drag.

What it asks of you: Eighty-nine minutes of fast, loud, deliberately coarse animation that never slows to let you catch your breath, and rarely lets up on the vulgarity.

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