If you like food puns, you’re in the right place. You can’t just say your lines, you have to sell them. When you’re making a good comedy, every line is important. But I don’t think it’s a spoiler to tell you Bill Hader, voicing more than one character, strives to make each line more memorable than the last. I want to spoil his character so badly, but so much of the enjoyment of “Sausage Party” is in the unexpectedness of it. And then there’s Nick Kroll, lending his voice to one of the movie’s antagonists. Norton’s spot-on accent gives each hilarious line that extra punch. Edward Norton steps up to bat as Sammy Bagel Jr., a super-Jewish bagel that helps fellow starch Brenda through the aisles in search of her home. So he tries to convince a skeptical grocery store, including his bun girlfriend Brenda ( Kristen Wiig), and save all his friends from certain doom.Ī 100% totally game ensemble is the first step toward making “Sausage Party” a comedy classic. But then Frank is told that what awaits them isn’t heaven, but instead a brutal and tragic death. Well, at least that’s what they’ve been led to believe awaits them. On the eve of Independence Day, Frank (Seth Rogen) and his hot dog friends (including Jonah Hill) wait patiently for their chance to be grabbed from the shelf, rang up, and carried out of the Shopwell store and into the Promised Land.
(Sorry for the language, but if you’re thinking of seeing “Sausage Party” you’re gonna have to get used to it.) Aliens” all those years ago), “Sausage Party” takes the formula of a typical-looking animated comedy and flips it on its fucking back. In the iconic font of the animation giant Pixar, the bumper sticker simply reads “Dixar.” A 10-year passion project for Seth Rogen (concocted while Rogen was lending his voice to “Monsters vs. In the middle of a throwaway scene in “Sausage Party,” a stoner is driving a car with a bumper sticker on the back. With huge success at the box office and among critics, “Sausage Party” will be remembered as a signature Rogen film.Directed by Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon
Part comedy, part horror, the movie revels in its self-aware extremes. Supported by a host of talented actors including Jonah Hill, Bill Hader, Michael Cera, Danny McBride, Paul Rudd, Nick Kroll and James Franco, Rogen delivers the raunchy, food-based comedy we didn’t know was possible. The characters’ blind faith in the “Great Beyond” and willful ignorance are a source of consternation for Frank, and the battle for shelf space leads to rivalry between bagels and lavashes. Stereotypes are exploited for laughter, while also being challenged. Religious fervor, anti-Semitism, racism and homophobia are explored. Peppered beneath the raunchy comedy is more meaningful commentary. He is accompanied by his girlfriend, a shy hot dog bun named Brenda (Kristen Wiig), a bagel named Sammy (Edward Norton), a lavash - a type of flatbread - named Kareem (David Krumholtz), and a taco named Teresa (Salma Hayek). The groceries consider shoppers as gods who will take them to the “Great Beyond,” until they learn the horrifying truth.Īs the movie unfolds, Frank (Seth Rogen) seeks to unravel the mystery of what really happens in the Great Beyond, after a returned jar of mustard gives him a cryptic warning before committing suicide. Seth Rogen’s depraved animation, “Sausage Party,” tells the story of anthropomorphic food in a grocery store.
Childish humor, drugs and sex make “Sausage Party” a typical irreverent comedy.