Because why not, I saw Sausage Party today. It was loaded to the gills with profanity (honestly I doubt I’ve ever experienced that many F-bombs in a movie before). It was filled with racial stereotypes (a Woody-Allenish Jewish bagel and an angry Arab… something, I don’t know what it was, but it had a great big hooked nose; Salma Hayek plays a Hispanic lesbian taco; Chinese food with the requisite accent; “illegal” Spanish food; etc.). It was filled with scenes of violence, death and drug use. And sex. Lots of sex. Lots of offensive, disturbing sex between food products.
And I haven’t laughed that much in a *long* time. In fact, the whole theater laughed their butts off.
There’s not a whole lot to say about the plot or character development; it’s just the most bizarro F-ed up thing I’ve seen in a good long while. Has some interesting things to say about blind faith (the anthropomorphized food items in the grocery store are convinced that the humans who come in and select them are “gods” taking them to paradise; a wee bit of distress arises when they discover that they are actually being massacred).
I noted when the movie started that this is a Sony movie… like Ghostbusters. I don’t imagine that Sausage Party will wind up making all that much money; it’s just too bizarre, offensive and R-rated. But: according to IMDB, the budget for Sausage Party was a measly $19 million, about 13% of Ghostbusters $144 million. I would be willing to bet that Sausage Party will end up making far more of a profit for Sony than Ghostbusters.