Sausage Party - an R-Rated animated movie from Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg

I'd like to say I'm new to this "magical world" of IMDB, but I've been on that site and its crap fest forums for years.

There's supposed to be a system on that site that doesn't let you vote until like a couple weeks before it's truly out in theaters, so something is messed up.

edited 15th Mar '16 8:06:13 PM by diyedas

Okay, having watched the trailed... huh. Anyone else getting a Foodfight! vibe from this?

It's already screened at South by Southwest.

This looks more professionally made than Foodfight, but it could still be awful regardless.

I gotta say, this is one of the few times having cute characters curse like a sailor actually managed to crack me up.

As a whole, I'm honestly excited for this movie to come out. It seems to me like, the ultimate Take That! towards really bad modern kids films like Norm of the North or those obnoxious Toy Story ripoffs.

Yes, the puns and adult jokes were a bit much but to the truth, I only realized this was meant to be an R-Rated comedy when the potato got skinned alive. Because up until then, this was looking a lot like current kids films today.

The in your face adult jokes, the overuse of celebrity voices (Seth Rogan, Edward Norton, Jonah Hill, James Franco, etc), the happy pop tune that plays at the start of the trailer, the fact that film initially comes off as a Toy Story knockoff. These tropes are all painfully common nowadays and it seems like this is trying to essentially mock that. I also think the gratuitous swearing and the graphic deaths was not only meant to clarify that this was an adult film but also to further satirize the modern day kid film.

So maybe that's why I'm optimistic of this movie. Because to me it seems like there's more to it than just saying the f word and crude jokes. Well that and the fact that there are some genuinely funny moments ("They're eating children! F@*%ING CHILDREN !)

I can't help it, I'm a huge fan of black comedy.

edited 16th Mar '16 12:02:39 AM by 1upmushroom

I'm kinda interested. Some of the jokes got a few chuckles outta me(like the shot from the human's perspective of the baby carrots rolling away after seeing them run away.), but I'm not expecting a lot from the guys who made This Is The End and The Interview.

The trailer honestly felt less of a Black Comedy and more of a straight up horror film. Certainly creeped me out more then most modern horror movie trailers.

I do agree that it would be nice to see theatrical animated adult films that aren't just dark comedies. Though with Anomolisa existing, I feel like we could get more adult animated films that aren't dark comedies.

edited 16th Mar '16 6:01:33 AM by ScottPilgrim2013

@29 More competently animated than Foodfight!, yeah, I'll easily give you that. But the animation of Foodfight! is, shockingly, not the worst part of the film. Based on this trailer, I feel like there's more than a little script similarity too, and not just in the idea of supermarkets being civilizations unto themselves.

I think it's what The Little Toaster That Could would have looked like if it had been pitched as a raunchy R rated black comedy rather than a lighthearted children's cartoon.

Was interested at first but now mostly disappointed.

I think the idea of making an Western adult animated film is novel (they're very rare), especially a CG film (aside from 9 I don't recall any others of this type). But from the looks of the trailer the humor and dialogue seems to be made entirely under the train of thought that All Adult Animation Is South Park. Cluster F Bombs all over the place throughout the second half of the trailer, and from what I've heard from the leaked script (yes, the script was leaked. lol Sony Pictures do you even security), a lot of sex jokes too (there's a whole scene devoted to a group of food people having an orgy, without skimming on the details. Given the title that's not too surprising, but eh.). The concept of "anthropomorphic food discover humans eat them" storyline is also been long-played out by earlier works, and the film doesn't really seem to be done in a unique way here outside of playing it off as a horror movie (even given its a comedy).

Maybe its just a badly-edited trailer but from my view, the film is going for a brazenly low-brow approach to further emphasize it's not a film for children, rather than actually touching on adult themes applied through anthropomorphic food. Shame in my view because I think under a different approach it could had been something akin to Conker's Bad Fur Day, a game that can be genuinely funny outside of the expected nuances of being an "adult" game with Art-Style Dissonance (swears, violence, and sex jokes). Given the pseudo-retro 1920s style designs they took with the food characters I was hoping they would go that direction, but I guess not. :/

edited 16th Mar '16 8:58:39 AM by Yeow95

Well in all fairness if someone was tasked with marketing Conker's Bad Fur Day, they too would probably focus more on the raunchy aspects of the game, if only just to alert the parents that it isn't for kids.

I have to say that this is only a trailer after all. We haven't seen anything else of the movie so maybe it'll be better than you thought.

I'll remain meh. I haven't read the script leak myself, but trailers are the most easily misleading part of a movie, because the actual film creators rarely have total say over what gets put in them.

Several of my friends linked to the trailer on Facebook, surprisingly. It really does not look like the kind of thing I would be into at all.

Indeed. I do agree with this movie's page here that says it's an intentional vicious parody of Pixar movies, and it does seem to be that way (though it seems to be relying more on shock value and horror rather than anything unique).

Maybe we will finally have an actually adult-animated movie? A movie which is not aimed at man-children; in which 'adult' is not interpreted as 'blood, gore and swearing with some sex thrown in'? Then I watch the trailer: maybe someday, but not today. And as some have said before: this whole thing has been done. This movie is basically Foodfight! with a higher budget and better animation. But otherwise it is the same. Foodfight even had some very adult jokes in it. This movie- I don't even know.

The script for the movie was leaked during the big Sony leak last year.

https://wikileaks.org/sony/docs/03_03/Mktrsch/Market%20Research/Scripts/Sausage%20Party.pdf

...Wow.

I have to say I'm already liking the character Sammy Bagel Jr (haven't read the leaked script), if only because of his name (Love me some Sammy Davis) and the fact that he's voiced by Edward Norton.

So, I just found out that there really is a page for this movie already.

And just now I found out that Alan Menken is doing the music. o_o

...

You know, I can respect Seth Rogen for doing a movie that basically screams "Everybody hates Kim Jong-Un!" But frankly, I greatly consider Pixar to be sacred ground (As for DreamWorks Animation, meh) so I don't think I'll be watching this one.

I get they want to make fun of Pixar and Dream Works, but from the one trailer, I can tell that they're doing that job too well.

edited 16th Mar '16 12:43:35 PM by TargetmasterJoe

Ya, this is why I don't watch "adult" animation. 90% of the time it's just raunchy sex jokes and F-bombs galore.

Yeah, the film does come off parody to films made by Pixar and Dreamworks.

It is definitely making fun of the recurring Pixar plotline of "Random thing having emotions". In this case the food we eat. And like Dreamworks films it has an all star cast of popular actors in a animated comedy.

I kind of like it. Seems like a good horror comedy for me to check out, especially what they are parodying.

Well it ends with a supermarket full of people being killed by the food (hence the Saving Private Ryan-esque beach like scene) so if that's your thing, eh. I on the other hand won't be seeing this.

Well, I'm sold.

Since this movie was made in Vancouver, it's no surprise that any character not voiced by a celebrirty will instead be filled in by Canadian voice actors. For example, the baby carrot that screamed "FOR THE LOVE OF SHIT, RUN!" in the trailer? According to IM Db, it may have been voiced by Stephanie Beard. That's right, the second voice of Rini (Chibi-Usa) from the original Sailor Moon dub.

edited 16th Mar '16 5:55:49 PM by DS9guy

...o_o...

The more I learn about this movie, the more traumatized I get.

Speaking of voices, it just occured to me that most of the celebrities in this movie have been in animated movies at some point in their careers:

Examples:

Seth Rogen -> Horton Hears A Who, Monsters vs. Aliens, Kung Fu Panda trilogy.

Kristen Wiig -> Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2, How to Train Your Dragon 1 and 2.

Paul Rudd -> Monsters vs. Aliens, The Little Prince (2016)

James Franco -> The Little Prince (2016)

I just read a bit of the climax from the leaked script and... Wow. I was expecting some kind of a horrifying downer ending, but no, they just went forward with it. Also it's literally a five part sequence labeled "Foodfight", I'm both not surprised and somewhat concerned by the fact that no one pieced it together with that other movie. I mean it's a very obscure blockbuster flop that was made in the 2000s and shat out in 2012 and only remains talked about in small internet circles, but really though. Anyways, I'm disappointed in that while it never sinks into too too raunchy humor, it also doesn't really take its premise to the extreme. There's a couple of obvious points of Fridge Horror with the setting that are just oozing potential to talk about, but they're more or less being set aside here.

Had no idea the forum really had a thing against adult animation. I get it, it's not the magical world of anime where artists are free and unchained from the horrors of the Animation Age Ghetto, but that's realistically the world we live in (and it's the world we're always going to live in until people can start to understand the concept of paying for shit you want and not paying for shit you don't want).