![]() Set inside a supermarket, the food who occupies the shelves live in the hope of being chosen by a happy customer and taken to ‘The Great Beyond’. The world of ‘Sausage Party’ is a happy one. While ‘Sausage Party’ mines the same level of vulgarity, it also happens to hit its targets and remain hilarious throughout. The works of the Wayan Brothers (‘Scary Movie’ series) and Seth MacFarlane (‘Family Guy’) show what happens when satire is done poorly instead coming across as vulgar and cruel. There are a lot of elements to consider in crafting satire: the level of subtlety the targets how hard to attack and actually being funny. Satire is a form of comedy that is hard to do successfully. Playing at Biltmore Grande, Carmike and Carolina Cinemark.The team behind ‘Superbad’, ‘Pineapple Express’, and ‘This Is The End’ take animated family films to ungodly vulgar levels in ‘Sausage Party’. Though the laughs keep coming, “Sausage Party” saves its most outlandish act for last with a finale that nearly one-ups the bedroom sequence from “Team America: World Police.” That it doesn’t is perhaps somewhat of a relief, but that it tries and almost succeeds says a lot about the film’s unexpected ambition. In the process, Frank meets the influential Non-Perishables, among them a Cracker-hating box of Grits (Craig Robinson). Brenda receives help from bi-curious taco shell Teresa (Salma Hayek), and Frank’s deformed former pack-mate Barry (Michael Cera) witnesses the horrors of the human appetite firsthand and memorably encounters a few non-food items. Similarly intelligent jokes arise from allusions to “Saving Private Ryan” and “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” an astute capsule history of white Americans’ treatment of minorities through the years and a Stephen Hawking-like piece of chewed gum, all of which work in harmony with the film’s wealth of lowbrow yuks. (Edward Norton, delightful in full nebbish Woody Allen mode) and Kareem Abdul Lavash (David Krumholtz) to distract from its shortcomings, offering food-centric yet humorously accurate commentary on the Israel/Palestine conflict. ![]() Taking full advantage of its premise, “Sausage Party” likewise offers food puns galore, from gems like the singer of “I Would Do Anything For Love” performing in his literal edible form down to plenty of juvenile throwaways.ĭouche generally kills the film’s vibe with his annoying bro ways, but fortunately “Sausage Party” has the contentious relationship between group tag-alongs Sammy Bagel Jr. uh, in the way those two items are traditionally united.ĭiscussion of the said act proceeds with slightly thicker overtones, the first of many not-so-veiled sexual innuendos spaced between tons of legitimately smart jokes buried in the rapid-fire dialogue. The film centers on a supermarket sausage - really a hot dog - named Frank (Seth Rogen), whose dream is to be purchased by a human “deity” at the same time as his girlfriend bun Brenda (Kristen Wiig) and shortly thereafter be united with her. ![]() The results are unsurprisingly hilarious, but with the exception of its portrayals of humans, it’s also visually creative and otherwise eye-catching. ![]() With “Sausage Party,” the cast of “This Is the End” reunites and brings along some friends for a raunchy animated comedy about talking food with misconceptions of what humans do to them at home. ![]()
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