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Sausage Party (2016)

Sausage Party (2016)  

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  1. 1. What grade would you give Sausage Party (2016)?

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It's a stunningly earnest TOY STORY riff and at the same time it's as balls-to-the-wall funny as early Seth Rogen movies. I loved the dense, dark themes. The stupid puns. That beautiful Alan Menken song. The blocky animation. The decapitations. The orgy. It feels like a movie a bunch of people got away with making, and yet it's a genuine, grown-up story (really).  

 

Please, bring on the sequel. 

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This was one of the most jacked up, blatantly offensive, crude, over the top movies I've ever seen...

 

And it was glorious.

 

I nearly died laughing, I came in thinking itd run the same gag to ground (and it does) but it never ceases to be funny.  It pushes every joke too far, and it's all the funnier for it.  I couldn't stop laughing throughout the entire movie.  This may even top This is the End as Rogen's straight up, funniest movie.

 

Not only was it hilarious, but despite all of the low-brow humor, the movie actually manages to have a brain with its concept and plays it to the fullest.  It's a ridiculous satire with so much going on that I could watch the movie five times and still not catch ever joke and gag.

 

Yeah, the movie is ridiculous, it's consistently loud and in your face, but it doesn't matter because it's flat out hilarious.  This is what comedies are meant to be.  The final act is one of the funniest things put to screen this decade, maybe even this millennium.

 

The movie isn't necessarily the most brilliant filmmaking you'll see this year, but it does exactly what it promises.  It fully delivers and I'll give Sausage Party an

 

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Really funny movie. It was different than I thought it was going to be. I thought it was going to be about the sausages and the buns trying to escape the ladies house. The movie works it hits all the rights notes and all the jokes work. The movie also has a good story behind it. I really enjoyed the movie. I pretty much laughed the whole time. 

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I concur with Hiccup and WB.  Unfunny and lame.  The jokes get told over and over again and it just felt like a script that was pretty lame but because it had fuck and shit in it, it was supposed to be funny.  

 

D- or 3/10

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Just now, Baumer loves Dory said:

I concur with Hiccup and WB.  Unfunny and lame.  The jokes get told over and over again and it just felt like a script that was pretty lame but because it had fuck and shit in it, it was supposed to be funny.  

 

D- or 3/10

 

Oh, look the Mexican food is like Mexican people! Oh, look, the bagel is like a Jew even with the nose! Oh, look, the falafel is Arabic! The two don't get along and we'll draw an all too obvious parallel to the Isreali conflict!

 

Oh, how clever we are! :rolleyes:

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I'm not sure it's much of a movie, but hot damn is it hysterical. The entire climax is a thing of beauty. The orgy scene: OMFG LMFAO! I don't how or why someone thought this whole thing up (they should let the public know what drugs they consumed that led to this), but I'm glad it exists.

 

But that orgy scene, man. I'm gonna need weeks to recover.

 

B+

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One of Seth Rogen's funniest and best films since This Is The End! Very funny, lots of funny scenes, and the animation was done beautifully for an $19 million budget. The voice casting was great! I got a kick out of this one, and I enjoyed the scenes especially with the food porn and the douche running around. The best comedy of 2016! Grade:A-

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43 minutes ago, K1stpierre said:

I'm shocked at the reviews on RT and here, so those who saw Bad Moms, is it funnier than Bad Moms?

I haven't posted my review here yet but definitely funnier than Bad Moms. I laughed a lot at Bad Moms as well, but there was stuff in this that made me laugh harder than I've ever laughed in a theater before

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1 hour ago, K1stpierre said:

 

Hit-to-miss ratio how? Like if you don't like crude humor you won't like it? (I for one love crude/stupid humor)

I think anyone who is easily offended is bound to hate this. The last 5 minutes alone is the crudest movie in years, lol.

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On the DVD commentary for The Incredibles, director Brad Bird states, "Animation is an art form, and it can do any genre... next time I hear, 'What's it like working in the animation genre?' I'm going to punch that person!" As a counterpoint to Bird, a friend of mine once pointed out that although animation is a medium, in the United States, it typically is more of a genre. So far this year we've had Kung Fu Panda 3, Zootopia, The Angry Birds Movie, Finding Dory, and The Secret Life of Pets. I would agree with my friend and say these are all within a singular genre, defined not by animation style, but by tone and story. They're all wacky adventures starring anthropomorphized animals that impart life lessons. Some of them are good, some are great, and some are awful, but they all fit within a clear genre.

 

The team of Rogen, Goldberg, Vernon and Tiernan have accomplished the impossible. They created the best Rogen/Goldberg style comedy yet that perfectly utilizes the medium of animation while moving it forward in an unique way. Sausage Party is incredible. It's astounding. It's hard to write a review because all this reviewer wishes to do is list positive adjectives for it. To describe Sausage Party is doing it a disservice as part of the joy of watching it comes from the constant thought of "I am sitting in a movie theater and this actually just happened and why am I laughing so hard at it?". Nevertheless, this reviewer shall attempt the impossible.

 

Dissecting the team is where to begin with this gem. Rogen and Goldberg has proven again and again they know how to deliver a smart and clever script, but with Sausage Party, they've outdone themselves. Among their typical sources of humor is a subplot about ongoing conflict in the Middle East, which should seem out of place in any comedy; after all, joking about it is certainly taboo. Yet, with animation, Rogen and Goldberg exploit the same loopholes of the otherwise impolite topics that Trey Parker and Matt Stone do. By having funny looking talking sausages, buns, and other foods, they deliver a shockingly in-depth look at world religions that both hilarious and incisive. To go into depth would be a disservice to the delightful surprises they have in store for audiences, but rest assured, the passion project aspects of this film are quite clear from the writing. The only issue that might arise from the script is that frequently the message comes off as a bit preachy, but oddly, that's not too bothersome. After all, the animated movies they're parodying often lay on their messages a bit too thick; it's only appropriate Sausage Party does the same with a much more complicated message to get across.

 

Vernon and Tiernan do a truly great job bringing Rogen and Goldberg's vision to life. Their animation direction is top notch with delightful visual sight gags and small details that bring the world of Shopwell's to life. It's worth pointing out the film only has a $19 million production budget, ridiculously cheap for CGI animation. Yet Vernon and Tiernan somehow manage to stretch that so far that, even though it's clearly not Pixar-level, it would certainly hold its own against the lower-budget big animated movies (Illumination to name a studio). Also, even though the film's shocking and highly publicized finale is from the pages of Rogen and Goldberg's script, credit must be given to Vernon and Tiernan who make an already insane sequence one of the most memorable scenes of the year with constant craziness going on the background of the shots and perfectly putting the focus where it belongs. This film is as much their achievement as Rogen and Goldberg's. (PLEASE NOTE: I wrote this review last week and am posting it now. Thus, this paragraph was written before I knew about the abuse Tiernan gave his animators. This is a major issue that kinda sours my feelings towards the direction, but I'm keeping this paragraph intact anyway.)

 

The voice cast is top notch too. Seth Rogen's Frank is an alright character to guide through this insane world, but everyone does a fabulous job voice-acting. Wiig and Kroll are definitely great among the supporting cast, but, as one might expect, Edward Norton steals the show. You'll want to have more of his character in the movie because his delivery is constantly impressive. Another performance worth singling out is Michael Cera, who begins like Rogen where you can tell it's Cera voicing the character, but by the end has melted completely into the role of a deformed sausage.

 

There's so much more to say about Sausage Party. I haven't even mentioned the ridiculously catchy song written by Alan Menken for the film. Nor the directly clever parodies of Pixar films such as Ratatouille or, more obviously, Toy Story. Heck, even alluding to the coda that manages to top the climax in brilliance might qualify as ruining a surprise. So this leads us back to the question: does Sausage Party break the animation genre problem? Honestly, no. It does follow a clear template that most animated movies in the U.S. do. That said, by both perverting the tropes and acknowledging the films that came before, Sausage Party is a triumph in creativity and comedy, be it animated or otherwise. Bring on Sausage Party Harder. A

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After some thought, this is more like a B+ movie.  It isn't better than This is the End, and despite the hilarity, it hasn't stuck with me like that movie did.  After letting it settle it, it's still raucous but not A grade quality.

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