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SAUSAGE PARTY

By Don Fowler
Posted 8/18/16

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(Dumb and vulgar)

If “Sausage Party” had been made as a PG kids cartoon feature, it would have been just plain dumb. But Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg decided to make an R-rated movie …

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See it at the Movies

SAUSAGE PARTY

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(Dumb and vulgar)

If “Sausage Party” had been made as a PG kids cartoon feature, it would have been just plain dumb. But Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg decided to make an R-rated movie about items in a supermarket that are convinced that being bought by customers takes them to the Great Beyond. The results are not only dumb, they are vulgar.

Frank (Seth Rogen) the sausage (looks like a hot dog to us) sits on a shelf in a package next to a package of hot dog rolls containing his girlfriend, Brenda (Kristen Wiig). They pray to be chosen so that the gods will take them to the Great Beyond. (We wouldn’t choose a package of hot dogs that weren’t kept in a cooler).

The dumb food items have no idea that they are being sold to be eaten until a jar of honey mustard is returned and spreads the word. None of the other items believe him, but Frank has his doubts, expecting to be chosen on Red, White and Blue Day (the 4th of July).

What follows is a dumb story line involving Frank and Brenda being harassed by a douche, while his undersized pal escapes and has his own adventures trying to get back to the store to tell all the food items that Honey Mustard was right. All this leads up to the items getting their revenge.

Oh, yes! The story is told with more profanity than you’ll find in a year at a fraternity house, plus sexual references that are pushed to the ultimate in bad taste. A hot dog and a bun is far from subtle, but they are nothing compared to some of the other crude references.

Some have interpreted “Sausage Party” as an allegory for finding the truth about God and what lies beyond our own supermarket. We see a supermarket full of garbage.

Rated R, with as much profanity, political incorrectness, drug use and sexual references as can be squeezed into an hour and a half.

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