In mainstream Hollywood cinema, driven by the franchise craze of sequels, prequels, remakes and reboots, people are now doubly grateful for any original idea, especially when it seems as bizarre as the premise of ‘Sausage Party – It’s about’, which was released in 2016 the sausage.” For their animated adventure, veteran comedy duo Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (“Superbad,” “This Is the End”) essentially took the idea of ”Toy Story” and applied it to hot food .
And this bizarre calculation finally came true. By doing that Takes the level of filth of animated films to a whole new level Rogen and Goldberg have undoubtedly struck a chord. With a worldwide box office gross of approximately $141 million, the $19 million “Sausage Party” replaced the film “South Park” after 17 (!) years at the top of the most successful animated films with a US adult release (in 2020 it was released here, but surpassed by the anime hit “Demon Slayer – The Movie: Mugen Train”).
And its success was certainly deserved, as must be emphasized again at this point, as the film has finally found its way back to a streaming subscription: ‘Sausage Party’ is now available to watch on Netflix. And that’s worth it – at least for fans of crude humor. Especially since we will finally get a long-awaited sequel in 2024 with ‘Sausage Party: Foodtopia’ (although not in the form of a new film, but as an eight-part series on Amazon Prime Video).
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Hot dog sausage Frank (voice in the original: Seth Rogen), like many of his shopping friends in the supermarket, dreams of one day being bought by a human and thus, together with his girlfriend, the hot dog bun Brenda (Kristen Wiig) to enter the paradise “great afterlife”. ” reach. But when they are about to fulfill this long-cherished dream, doubts arise in their minds as to whether paradise actually awaits them outside the walls of the supermarket.
Frank, Brenda and a few others run away and try to get to the bottom of the matter in the corners of their supermarket. And sure enough, they soon discover the shocking truth about what people really do to them…
Uninhibited food porn
…and basically everyone just wants to fuck all the time. Yes, “Sausage Party” is anything but delicate or even subtle comedy entertainment. You have to have a certain taste for naughty nonsenseto enjoy the dirty odyssey of Frank and his friends. But if you open up to it just a little bit, you will be incredible rewarded with a fun and accurate gagfest bursting with ingenuity.
The way in which Seth Rogen (who also plays the main character Frank in the English original) and his team bring not only their food, but especially their idiosyncratic world to life, is always good for wonderfully original surprises – and despite all the unpleasantness, is also quite smart, for example when consumer criticism is sprinkled on top and religious fanaticism is denounced.
Plus, it’s fascinating to see how Rogen and co. always pushing the boundaries of good taste in the guise of a cute animated film – but make sure your heart is always in the right place. They ultimately provide the literal climax in the completely crazy Gaga finale, which offers us unbridled food porn in the truest sense of the word and which you have to see to believe.
Anyway, if you enjoyed “Sausage Party,” you can already bookmark the aforementioned series sequel “Foodtopia” for 2024. With Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg producing from scratch, their former co-writers Ariel Shaffir and Kyle Hunter serve as showrunners, co-director Conrad Vernon is in charge of production, and many of the original speakers return. , the series will likely be set in a very similar vein to the cinema.