For Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg's latest film, Sausage Party, the creators of such films as Pineapple Express and This is The End try their hand at animation, delivering a subversive, ultra-raunchy comedy which manages to have an underlying heart of gold about the importance of love and acceptance. Taking place primarily in the confines of a Grocery Store, Sausage Party crafts a world where various household products have a mind of their own, living happily in the supermarket where they view human shoppers as their gods and masters, anxiously awaiting to be selected for the afterlife. When a botched trip to the afterlife leaves a sausage named Frank and his girlfriend, a bun named Brenda, stranded on the grocery store floor, Frank's vision of the world around him comes crashing down when he learns the horrifying truth about the human masters, that they will eventually come to slaughter him for human consumption. Attempting to warn all the others in the grocery store of their true fate with the gods, the panicked sausage must unite all the perishables together in an effort to fight back against the human masters. Sausage Party is the type of film that is bound to make some individuals uncomfortable, being an abrasively humored comedy that deems nothing off limits. Making fun of all races, cultures, and creeds, Sausage Party effectively teases all of humanity, doing so with the purpose of showcasing our petty differences and the stupidity which tends to be associated with human conflict. From the bickering between Taboon bread and a bagel being a symbolic representation of the current Israel-Palestine conflict, to the film making fun of European imperialism and every race imaginable, Sausage Party cleverly skewers humanities constant combativeness and cultural differences, arguing that tolerance and acceptance are paramount and a biproduct of a secular-based society where humanity empowers itself to be better. Nuance isn't something Sausage Party concerns itself with, instead going right for the jugular in its rather blunt evocation of the importance of tolerance, and more importantly love between our fellow man. Sausage Party is far from profound or particularly nuanced, seemingly suggesting that religion is the only reason for humanities' confrontations, but the film's heart is undoubtedly in the right place, hoping for a world where love triumphs over hate. While Sausage Party should appeal to any fans of raunchier comedy, don't expect a laugh riot, as this film skates by more on its clever juxtaposition of humanity with that of perishables in a supermarket, being constantly fun and entertaining with a few shockingly outrageous sequences of hilarity. From a strictly comedic perspective, the finale of Sausage Party is outrageously funny, a sequence which I won't spoil here, but lets just say it left me reminded of the iconic sex scene in Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Team America: World Police. Don't let the animation fool you, Sausage Party may be the filmmakers most raunchy, non-PC, film to-date, being a cleverly made film that uses shock humor and subversive violence as an allegory for the importance of peace, love, and understanding in humanity - a plea for all of humanity to get over our petty differences.
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