Movie · 2016 · Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Fantasy · 1h 29m · R · English
Curator score: 0.8/10 (816K ratings)
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Overview
Hot dog Frank leads a group of supermarket products on a quest to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they're chosen to leave the grocery store.
Ratings
Curator score: 0.8/10
IMDb: 6.1/10
Letterboxd: 2.24/5
Rotten Tomatoes: 82%
Metacritic: 66
TMDB: 5.8/10
Director
Conrad Vernon, Greg Tiernan
Production
Columbia Pictures, Annapurna Pictures, Point Grey Pictures, Nitrogen Studios Canada
Cast
Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill, Bill Hader, Michael Cera, James Franco, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, Paul Rudd, Nick Kroll, David Krumholtz, Edward Norton, Salma Hayek Pinault, Anders Holm, Scott Underwood, Sugar Lyn Beard, Conrad Vernon, Ian James Corlett, Michael Daingerfield, Jason Simpson
Curator Review
Verdict
A crude, high-concept adult animation that gets by on shock value, a few sharp satirical ideas, and the novelty of supermarket products as characters. It’s often more juvenile than incisive, but if you’re in the mood for aggressively silly, taboo-pushing comedy, it can still be a curio worth sampling.
Best for
viewers who like raunchy, boundary-pushing comedy
fans of adult animation and meta-satire
people curious about high-concept studio comedies
audiences amused by gross-out humor and absurd premises
Skip if
you want smart, tightly written satire
you dislike explicit sexual humor or profanity
you prefer polished animation and visual elegance
you’re turned off by one-note shock comedy
Overview
Sausage Party is a one-joke movie that keeps trying to turn that joke into a thesis. The premise is inspired enough: a supermarket fantasy world where packaged goods dream of a better life, only to discover the horror of what comes after purchase. That setup gives the film a real satirical target, even if it frequently buries it under crude gags and adolescent escalation.
Worth noting
The voice cast is game, and the movie occasionally lands a clever bit of worldbuilding or a mean little punchline. But the humor is so relentlessly explicit that the satire often feels secondary to provocation. The animation is functional rather than expressive, which makes the film feel even more dependent on its shock tactics.
Bottom line
If you’re already on board with raunchy adult cartoons, there’s enough energy and invention here to justify a watch. If you’re hoping for something as sharp as its concept sounds, it’s more likely to feel exhausting than transgressive. It’s a cult curiosity, not a modern classic.
Top Letterboxd reviews
single white femalien (0.5★) · 4791 likes
I'm only 4 minutes into this but i think this is the most evil movie I've ever seen
cowboy (0.5★) · 4056 likes
i'm a vegan now
Spencer (0.5★) · 2677 likes
there's israel-palestine commentary in this
Karsten (0.5★) · 2065 likes
I really wanted to like this film. Especially considering it would have been a great breakthrough for adult animation but I can't think of a more immature and lazy way this could have been done. Not really funny at all and horribly animated. While it sure isn’t the worst thing I’ve ever seen I might go ahead and label it as my least favorite movie just because of how offensive, unnecessary, stupid, abd just fucking horrible it is.