Interestingly, neither actor voicing these characters is Middle Eastern (David Krumholtz) or Jewish (Edward Norton).” Steven Humphrey, the film critic for Portland Mercury, called it “dumb and racist.” “Unrelenting puns are the go-to jokes in this script,” he writes, “and each food or drink product is assigned a personality based on race: A flatbread is given a stereotypical Middle Eastern makeover, while his enemy, a bagel, is a Jew with a heavy, Woody Allen-esque accent. If it’s no-holds-barred commitment to tastelessness is impressive, “Sausage Party” is mired by unseemly racial politics, which led to widespread criticism from Twitter users over the weekend. Meanwhile, the film’s villain (Nick Kroll) is an actual douche. At one point, a used condom cries out in agony, having seen things no fragile rubber should.
In its first half hour, screenwriters Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Ariel Shaffir, and Kyle Hunter unleash a blitzkrieg of expletives on the audience, the hundreds of F-bombs a testament to the filmmakers’ belief that more is more. “Sausage Party” is so raunchy and foul-mouthed it practically puts “Bad Santa” to shame, fully earning its hard-R rating. This quest will end in a pansexual food orgy. In so doing, the two plan to get Biblical. A hot dog, voiced by Seth Rogen (“The Interview”), hopes to get raptured along with his girlfriend, a voluptuous bun brought to life by Kristen Wiig (“Bridesmaids”). The film exists in a “Toy Story”-like universe in which anthropomorphic food items dream of being selected by human shoppers to journey to what they call “The Great Beyond.” Their interest in crossing over, however, is not purely religious. “Sausage Party” is the kind of movie that dares you to get offended.ĭirected by Conrad Vernon (“Shrek 2”) and Greg Tiernan (“Thomas and Friends”), the film is gleefully, proudly ribald.
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