I saw Sausage Party
It was alright
sausage party was basically exactly what I walked in expecting it to be ... a seth Rogen film
Seth Rogen is a man that
I am openly deeply jealous of, if I could be reincarnated as any specific person it would be him
But with Chris pratt's arms. How I adore the concept of going out into the world and being able to make
Loosely speaking, the exact
same
movie
over and over and over
But each time lightly marinated as different genres. You go into this one movie thinking
It's about a shotgun marriage and it is but then you flip to the next one and it has all of the same
Characters and all the same scenes and all the same jokes, but it's vaguely disguised with a new plot thread
It's not that I outright hate Rogen style of films, but it's more than I kind of find them to be
misguided in their imitations of previous stuff made by the talent in question
Did sausage party really need five to ten scenes of foodstuffs doing weed around a fire?
Does it really even make any actual sense?
no, and
No, that's the thing about Sausage party
it's heart is in the right place
Toy Story is a film that not enough people have set out to lampoon
while it's a timeless classic the in universe idea is kind of weird and inconsistent
the toys in that franchise seem to see being played with and given attention to by these children almost as a
spiritual Or yes
sexual
experience
Like that being a toy for this child means reaching enlightenment itself
It's a simple idea done to give kids a new take on
What playtime means them but it leaves a door open for possibilities that the film doesn't feel comfortable exploring
Sitting out to say all food is alive and then deciding to follow those consequences to the very edge
is kind of a funny concept
Because there is an instantly messed up idea that you could use to trick audiences
Sausage party tries to market itself as a dark twisted take on that concept disguised as a cute little pixar film
But it's really
not
The first previews of the film suggested that throughout the entire intro the narrative was going to be
Presented as a tiny little kids movie
That idea as a joke only works if you do what the first trailer did and hold off the profanity until the movie
introduces the idea of this being more than a little kids movie
This film doesn't do that, because that would be subtle and clever and it prefers to do
Over-the-top offensiveness from frame number one there's cursing throughout the entire movie and it really loses its charm pretty quickly
It's pretty clear the cursing itself is supposed to be a joke that we are to laugh at but it isn't very
Funny because it happens every 10 seconds the juxtaposition
evaporates because it never actually
Feels like the kind of film that wouldn't be doing stuff like cursing and having sex jokes every 20 seconds
While watching this movie I kept asking myself
So many questions
like
What does the events of the film look like outside?
Of the bath salts food Vision, How could the Outer world?
Possibly interpret all of the stuff that happens that involves food using their hands and their feet that clearly
wouldn't work in the
Real world
When the main characters touch fingertips, what is that supposed to be?
They don't have hands or feet in the real world is this a toy story thing where the food comes alive only when no one
is around?
Well no because they're constantly running around and acting out certain events in front of humans and humans just don't
React there has to be a [real-world] parallel for what this looks like
Like when the hot dogs jump on the windowsill and the human cuts one of them in half while standing up
What does that look like how is the human perceiving this?
Why doesn't the clerk stop the woman from buying open packages?
when food is cut up into new food does that new food have a brand new consciousness?
a hotdog is like 700 kinds of meat mushed together into a pace and then shot out as a little tube
Shouldn't the main character be a zombified corpse of hundreds of different kinds of food?
What decides what makes certain products in the store alive?
It's more than just the food there's tons of stuff that we see that walks and talks that are just
average things sold by the store
Why don't knives have eyes and mouth like all the other products do? when do products gain consciousness?
do they become alive by the nature of the fact that they're going to be sold to humans or are they alive as soon as
They come out of the factory?
How do they understand most of the ideas that involve them being food, like that they
Expire after a couple weeks?
Yet, they don't know that humans eat them
these are all thoughts and questions that sausage party would incorporate into the comedy or satire if
It was actually trying to be a subversive experience
Instead they try and find the simplest jokes to make out of the universe and then they just start making crap up afterwards
Once they run out of jokes about poop being alive and toilet paper being alive they start adding new
Aspects that goes against everything that they've set up so far, like each section of the store suddenly has like a mini building
The liquor section has a giant party room and the Mexican section has like this old west saloon
So it's like food fight now, but nothing so far has set up this to be anything like food fight
Where did they get these buildings are they Christmas decorations they stole in the past?
What is the point of having a bar when the people going to the bar are
alcohol and food?
What happens at the bar? What are they served? did they just sit around and talk? How is some of the beer drunk?
What are they drunk on?
have they been drinking each other?
Are they drunk on themselves? are they born drunk? and what about that weed circle where do the cast members
Get this weed?
Do they steal it from the employees?
Do they make it themselves?
Does someone sell weed in the back of the store and they keep stealing it?
Is the weed
alive?
are any of the drugs
alive?
if your automatic response to any of these questions that I just listed off is anything along the lines of
"they just do" or "that's how the movie decides to do it" or
"Shut up, and just laugh at the jokes" then you're only representing how bare-bones this film is
"just because" is by far the least funny explanation of something that anyone could possibly come up with
You can't say that this is an intelligent Self-aware spoof of the toy story mold when the film won't even acknowledge its own
inconsistencies and or concepts for the sake of
satire
Like and I might regret saying this later on but you know it's a movie that does this idea better?
Bee movie yes, Bee movie
that
Bee movie, the one with the Seinfeld bee
[Barry]: Hi
[audience member]: [gasps] I'm tweaking [groans painfully]
[Quinton]: Woah woah woah, dude dude dude, just take these and
just breathe dude just breathe, you're not tweaking. you're just peaking man
like Sausage party, Bee movie sets out to ask one of the fundamental questions
purposefully ignored by toy story
What would happen if these inanimate objects suddenly just spoke out and told the humans the truth?
in Bee movie, the main character reveals himself to a human and then starts a civil rights
campaign to give the honey back to the bee community
[Vanessa]: I'm helping him sue the human race
Ken]: [confused] what?
Throughout the film there's a ton of references to civil rights movements of the past and present
but everything is vague enough that you will kinda only get confused if you try to make any
Comparisons or pull any meaning from the movie
like his civil rights movement destroys the planet and they decide to undo the civil rights movement
What is that trying to say?
The joke is that there is no metaphor
it's literally a movie that someone made about what would happen if bees sought-out civil rights
as equal beings to humans
it's fucking hilarious
and sure Bee movie didn't have a universe consistent with the real world
and did have a lot of culture references not relevant to the plot
but it's still considered its universe when coming up with a lot of its material, just as an easy example
They constantly talk about the fact that when a bee stings someone the bee dies or can die
If Rogen had made bee movie, he wouldn't have done that because it would have been something that he would choose to ignore
in replacement for Edge Lord Nazi Jokes about Jews persecution
Sausage Party is committed to breaking boundaries in terms of what it has to be in only a few minor aspects:
cursing, violence, sex
Narratively it still is squeamish about approaching obvious topics
like the main characters spend most of the movie
walking around the aisles of a grocery store for like 12 hours
and unlike in real life they never get ... you know
Fucking gross. I've worked at the kind of places depicted in this movie before
I know that most nights the floor is not properly cleaned
So just imagine the food in this film is rolling around in dust bunnies for like an entire night
at most I recall seeing the bun character have a splash stain on her for like
two seconds
and at the end of the movie after they've spoiler alert killed all of the humans in the building
suddenly the movie is fine with ignoring the reality
would there really not be anyone in the store that the food couldn't get to?
Like a security guard? Would the owner really never show up?
I get that the food or powerful and everything
but someone could torch that place and they would all be gone in two seconds
and finally once again
Why haven't any of them expired by the end of the film? if I leave a bun out overnight
I can use it to hammer in nails the next day
Hot dogs get all gross and slimy after a few days of their package being opened
and the rest of food would be even more disgusting
but despite the fact that they make a big deal out of the set in stone immortal characters
No one dies of natural causes in this movie
Possibly because it would be a real bummer, I mean, you have to end it on a happy note
It's a Seth Rogen film, they always have to be happy together forever and ever
But how to get around the fact that they are all perishable food stuffs that will rot away and die
Well, just send them to an alternate dimension of course
I'm not making that up
at the end of the movie, it's not an in-joke
It's the actual end of the movie that plays before the first set of credits
the food realized that they are in a piece of fiction
and the Stephen hawking gum makes a stargate so they can go and kill all the people who voice them
or something
That's what we're dealing with your people, a film that doesn't answer
90% of the funniest questions that beg to be acknowledged
But still breaks the fourth wall and has the cast go off to kill the people making the movie
It's that confused on what it means to be a clever,
Self-Aware product that's simply ending with a giant fourth wall roof makes the package complete
Sausage party is a mild smile kind of movie. I don't recall laughing even once not even a chuckle, but to be fair
It's not my kind of movie obviously
But hell if you fail where even the Ghostbusters reboot
managed to succeed
something went wrong
Despite this, Sausage Party is a kind of must-see. Just because it's a cinematic experience
it's a Seth Rogen movie that looks like a pixar movie
an R-Rated 3D movie is rare enough in our current film market that just that aspect alone makes it something that's easy to sit through
Could it have been better and more creative? Yes
is it possible that as more movies come out inspired by sausage party that do the concept better
the magic that makes it cool now will slowly start to fade away with age
Absolutely
but I can't pull myself to protest it too much, and it's not that much of a waste of money
Not sure if I would say that you need to see it in the theater
but I really do recommend it as something that you see at least once
So did you like this video was I a little too harsh on the movie? was I not harsh enough?
What did you think of Sausage Party? are you going to see it?
and if you did are you looking forward to seeing the next project by the team behind this one?
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Until next time I've been Quinton Kyle Hoover, and that's all you need