Sausage Party - Es geht um die Wurst

The anti-LEGO Movie. The protagonists have been brainwashed by a (corporate) ideology according to which the point of existence is to wait for one of the “Gods” to choose you and take you to the Promised Land, where a Jewish bagel and a Muslim lavash will find peace and quiet, otherwise leading to an endless dispute over who is entitled to occupy the “western shelves” of the supermarket. They are unaware that instead of 77 bottles of virgin olive oil and other pleasures, what awaits them is a painful death in a pot of boiling water or in a meat grinder. Every workday begins with a collective sing-along of an idiotic feel-good song in the mould of “Everything is Awesome”, which the characters want to continue singing even after coming to the realisation that maybe everything isn’t so wonderful. It’s just more comfortable for them to keep believing in the illusion that they have created for themselves, which offers them solace instead of existential angst. Unfortunate historical experience discourages dogmatically clinging to optimism, so let’s pretend that the past doesn’t exist and continue to live a lie. It seems that hedonism is the only satisfactory alternative to faith in salvation, which requires, among other things, the renunciation of physical pleasures. We are all going to die eventually anyway (with the exception of non-perishable foods), so why not at least lick a bun or smoke a beet before we do and make our joyless existence a little more pleasant. Of course, the anti-consumerist message of a film produced by a giant media corporation cannot be taken too seriously, and Sausage Party deserves credit for not wanting anything of the sort from the viewer. On the other hand, it is perhaps a pity that behind the veil of ultra-simple jokes, it’s a bit hard to see how clever and subversive a film Rogen’s crew came up with this time. After all, the biggest monster is not the talking can of deodorant, but the character of a random human consumer, living in the belief that there will always be something to eat. If nothing else, the mere fact that you feel compelled to root for a talking sausage, desiccated chewing gum and a busty bun in their struggle against people like you (i.e. people who are guilty of consumerism) can be considered a win for the filmmakers. 85% (26.08.2016)

If it were a funny politically incorrect animated movie, I would definitely appreciate it. But Seth Rogen should not have been smoking weed so much the whole time writing the script. Some scenes are funny, but I would probably have to be stoned as well to start laughing in most cases. Disgusting stuff alternates with perversion. It is not funny and there is only one real breaking point in the end of the movie, but even that could be appreciated only by someone as perverted as Marquis de Sade. And only if that pervert was a sausage in a US convenience store so he can understand the main characters in this film – sausages in the US convenience store. (07.06.2017)

Whatever you may think of Seth Rogen, I appreciate the fact that he can surround himself with like-minded people and from time to time release something into the world that studios don't usually have the balls to do. Like a film about the assassination of Kim Jong Un or Sausage Party. On the face of it, it's exactly what you'd expect, a cheap but still decent-looking animated film full of dirty and vulgar jokes, some of which might not even pass muster with the writers of South Park – the final five minutes are a great test of the audience's taste. At the same time, it's all surprisingly smart, working with themes that are perhaps too ambitious for such a film at first glance, and together it works perfectly. Sausage Party is ninety minutes long, and they don’t waste time, so the pacing is lethal, the cadence of the jokes more than satisfying, and you'll find enough ideas that you'll never think of this animated madness as mere self-indulgent vulgarity. Yeah, it's vulgar, but it's also intelligent, surprising and, above all, terribly funny. (15.05.2017)

Ich habe von dickwerdenden Sternen geträumt, die zugedröhnt auf einer Couch zusammengekauert liegen und sich mit dem Gedanken quälen lassen, wie eine sprechende Bockwurst in ein molliges Brötchen gestopft wird. Dann bin ich aufgewacht, ich war im Kino und habe mir Sausage Party – Es geht um die Wurst angeschaut, wobei alles eher wie ein nur allzu durchschaubarer Alptraum ausgesehen hat. Ich vergeb´ da Bonuspunkte für das Vordringen ins sterile moralistische Vakuum von Zeichentrickfilmen, Null für jedwede tatsächliche Subversivität und Fleischigkeit. Eine Art Sojaersatz für Sachen von Matt Stone und Trey Parker. Ein obszön mit einem Bagel kombiniertes Lavash reicht mir da zum Herazusquetschen der Light-Majonaise nicht aus, ihr Rauchwürste. (31.08.2016)

I'm not under the illusion that this script was created any differently than with the main group meeting over a pile of food sometime around Independence Day, with the meeting interspersed with consuming various substances and a Toy Story marathon, and the job got done. In terms of parodies, it turned out quite funny as expected, but in terms of half-hearted socio-cultural comments and reminders, it was sweatily and clumsily done. Yet what destroys me the most is the constant need to swear, to randomly insert sexual innuendos into every scene, and to finish the last ten minutes with an extra coarse spectacle, maybe just for fun, to see if any of the viewers can handle it. Moreover, Seth Rogen keeps dwelling on the thousandth variation of how a character is under the influence of drugs, and that doesn't seem as funny to me as it is perplexing that his approach to these jokes has stopped evolving and instead has started to regress. (19.08.2018)

Wenn man eher bei South Park als bei Pixar lacht und lieber bei einer zwischen rassigen Bukkake-Party mitmachen will, als Danielle Steel zu sehen, dann ist Sausage Party - Es geht um die Wurst genau das Richtige für euch. Denn dies ist eine Grausamkeit, die man nicht einmal in Hardcore-Pornos sieht. Wenn man erwartet, dass es mit vulgärer Sprache beginnt und mit dem Verzehr der Hauptcharaktere endet, liegt man vollkommen falsch. Es wimmelt hier nur so vor Ideen. Wo sonst wird man Charaktere wie die geile Fotzenfickerin sehen, die nach dem sie den Saft schluckte, Lust auf Blut bekommt, eine zerquetschte Kiefer auf einem Hawking-Rollstuhl, ein Baguette, das eine Wurst reinstecken will und sogar diese Milf mit sichtbar aufgeschlitzter Muschi. Natürlich dürfen auch Zitate aus anderen Filmen nicht fehlen (wie zum Beispiel Der Soldat James Ryan, Terminator 2 und andere). Und wenn der Film langsam zu Ende geht, erwartet einen die abschließende Gruppensex-Szene, in der es neben allen möglichen Leckereien, Ficks und Vergewaltigungen auch um einen Schimmel geht, der Speck fingert. Also, wirklich harte Unterhaltung, nichts für verkorkste. (18.10.2016)

This is just a total nightmare. A bunch of completely unintelligent jokes with an even bigger pile of bad words crammed into a sleazy and disgusting movie. Not to mention the pathetic scene at the end. Lessons learned for next time? When Seth Rogen writes the screenplay for something, it can never be all that good. (14.09.2016)

This is definitely food porn loaded with profanity and scenes that cross the line for some. On the other hand, it's an adult cartoon, so it's clear they're not going to be freeing Willy. On the one hand, I appreciate that the film makes a statement about such "weepy" issues as religion, otherness, ethnicity, and so on, but keeps it at the level of fun; of course, nothing deeper comes of it. In the end, basically all those stereotypes are used to entertain or dramatize the scene. Of course, some of the (pop) culture references were right on, ditto the visit from the candy-coated Stephen Hawking. The songs chosen were great and you could see the filmmakers were having fun with it. On the other hand, just bad language and now and then good and playful ideas are not enough to make you 100% interested in a film. Besides, the animation didn't impress me much either. I don't think watching it will hurt, if you don't mind that it's not exactly a story with a moral lesson and that the climax is a real climax. A better 3 stars. After all, even the day after watching it I was thinking about the film, mainly because I had no idea how to rate it. (25.08.2016)

Death and mutilation. Food at the mercy of the Gods in the fight against the faith that for so many years determined their mission… Who would have said that movies by Seth Rogen and Simon Pegg would grace the summer blockbuster season (no really, this summer was all about Star Trek and Sausage Party), but thank God for that. Probably just these two can deliver originality and quality. They managed to create another classic. An unscrupulous cartoon full of cussing and sexual innuendo, about the importance of faith and community, friendship and modern relationships. An unbelievable storm of ideas (not always exploited to the full) almost with potential for a series, there are too many shelves. The perfect characters personifying various opinions on faith and a great explanation of the concept of religion become slightly lost in the attempt to please today’s audience, but there is a message. Excellent jokes, impressive subtitling. I look forward to seconds. (26.08.2016)

Manchmal ist es schon zu viel des Guten. Sausage Party - Es geht um die Wurst ist ein unglaublich vulgärer, aber gleichzeitig auch ein unglaublich einfallsreicher, origineller und anarchistisch lustiger Film. So etwas habe ich noch nie gesehen. Es ist überhaupt nicht so primitiv, wie man auf den ersten Blick und nach ein paar Minuten denken könnte. (27.01.2018)

It's always nice to put on a film believing we've seen everything and nothing can surprise us, only for it to slap us right in the face and ravish all our expectations. Sausage Party may be "innovative" to the point of being tasteless at times, and I'd love to cut out the final ten minutes and wipe them off the face of the earth, but otherwise I had such a great time that almost all film parodies of the last ten years go out defeated with an anal plug up their ass. The episodic narrative based on the division of the main characters, with one part directly confronted with the terrible fate of food in human dwellings and the other trying to trace this fate by wandering around a store, offers plenty of room for situational humour and the exploration of the sophisticated world of department stores, as well as for the development of a simple but sufficiently motivated story, which, conducted on two lines, can never be boring. Of course, it's easy to wonder if Seth Rogen simply has such a vivid imagination or if he grew up in the real South Park, because all that fucking, farting, squeaking, clawing and writhing is not absolutely necessary to maintain the film's originality and attractiveness, and at times it's downright harmful, but the thumbs go definitely up for the overall working concept, especially the individual ideas about the world, the hierarchy or simply the visuals of the food, which never ceased to surprise, and the amazing original voice acting. Really, better than I dared to hope. (10.02.2017)

As the first computer-animated film with an R-rating, the aptly named Sausage Party aroused quite conflicted feelings in me. As far as the premise goes, it's certainly an imaginative piece of work, but it flounders in the final execution. Personally, I don't mind when profanity is abundant in films, but here most of it just flew thoughtlessly and ineffectively through space. What struck me most were the references to famous people (Stephen Hawking) or films (Terminator 2) and especially the final "group" scene, during which I was pretty much rolling on the floor laughing (making me wonder if I was a bit of a "pervert", but the whole cinema was laughing, so OK). In short, a film with obvious ambition, which would have been more suited to a medium-length film, and where it's a shame about the untapped potential that was definitely there. (25.08.2016)

I don't remember ever having such a good time with a movie so crude, cringy, and wacky. Then again, I don't think I've ever seen a film that so enthusiastically and openly criticizes political correctness, which I hate with a passion. It's okay to hate another race or religion, you just can't say it out loud. Some call it political correctness, I call it hypocrisy, and this animated movie kicked its ass and then some. So hilarious. I just won’t look at my local supermarket in the same way... (10.01.2017)