Sausage Party (NOT FOR KIDS!!! ;))

[Dr. Insomniac]

Who's ready for the new renaissance of animation to begin? I can't wait for Seth Rogen to become an animation genre!

Also, don't compare this to Foodfight at all, because the guy who made that Applejack video will get really pissed off and come into your house and break your sphincter if you so much as say a word about Foodfight.

[Daikun]

Sausage Party looks great.

[Avaitor]

I wish to become as famous as Seth Rogen, so I too can get my food porn fetish funded.

[The Shadow Gentleman]

I don't think I'll be eating any meat for about a week now.

[Peanutbutter]

That trailer was hilarious! The only way this could be funnier would be the food wanting to be eaten only to find themselves at a Food Fetishist convention.


"Man, we're never going to get eaten are we?!"

"Well, we will just not how you think!"

"AHHHHHH!!!!"



A Pixar-like horror film with food protagonists, this will be comedy platinum.

[Daikun]

So, it's been out for a while, and it...doesn't suck?

I gotta admit, the moment I heard the title from an early press release and being used to years of groan-inducing "adult" animation on Adult Swim and Fox, I was literally terrified that this movie would go down that same path. Thankfully, Sony didn't make the same mistake.

[Peanutbutter]

So, it's been out for a while, and it...doesn't suck?

I gotta admit, the moment I heard the title from an early press release and being used to years of groan-inducing "adult" animation on Adult Swim and Fox, I was literally terrified that this movie would go down that same path. Thankfully, Sony didn't make the same mistake.

Seth didn't make the same mistake, you mean. Regardless of most of Adult Swim's stuff being shlocky there was no real reason to assume this would be terrible. I may not be a huge fan of Seth Rogen but to his credit when he's writing his own stuff he has proven to be really hilarious when he wants to be like in This Is the End.

[The Shadow Gentleman]

It was more boring the terriable, but the attempt at having some kind of message about religion was one of the most grown worthy things I've seen in a movie this year.

[LumRanmaYasha]

It was fine. I left the theater ambivalent, but there were moments I chuckled at. The religious commentary was pretty shallow and obvious, but the heart was in the right place. I respect that they actually tried to make an R-rated animated comedy movie that was more than just crude humor and sex jokes.

That said, the awful mistreatment of the animators who worked on the film makes me regret paying money to see it. Forcing your staff to work overtime with no pay, and omitting them from the ending credits because they complained, quit, or fired? Fuck Nitrogen Studios. 

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

The mistreatment of the animators is just awful, but sadly not that uncommon for less mainstream animation studios.

On that end, several anime from before the 2000's  (especially from Toei) were notorious for underpaying and overworking their staffs, and even today this still goes on at some studios. It's pretty despicable stuff, but I also feel as though not paying to go see their hard work or that of the animation team behind movies like Sausage Party isn't the best way to honor those people. Rather, I tend to feel that people should support the work if it's genuinely good, but also make themselves vocal in protest against the mistreatment of the animators and help spread awareness of it, maybe even contributing towards helping raise money to bring up a lawsuit case against such studios.

[Peanutbutter]

The mistreatment of the animators is just awful, but sadly not that uncommon for less mainstream animation studios.

On that end, several anime from before the 2000's  (especially from Toei) were notorious for underpaying and overworking their staffs, and even today this still goes on at some studios. It's pretty despicable stuff, but I also feel as though not paying to go see their hard work or that of the animation team behind movies like Sausage Party isn't the best way to honor those people. Rather, I tend to feel that people should support the work if it's genuinely good, but also make themselves vocal in protest against the mistreatment of the animators and help spread awareness of it, maybe even contributing towards helping raise money to bring up a lawsuit case against such studios.

Agreed. I haven't seen the movie yet, and I hate that Nitrogen Studios is run by thugs but I don't see that much good in boycotting them. You can watch this movie in theaters and still speak out publicly about how wrong the treatment of those animators was and call the heads of Nitrogen out.



Sadly, this has been a thing in the animation industry since Walt Disney's day. I find it a bit odd that this movie is just now getting some people to spotlight it when there have been lots of other animated films that had this going on behind the scenes.

[Dr. Insomniac]

It's a movie I would have liked back when I was 13. And I had horrible taste when I was 13. The whole novelty of seeing cartoon characters say "Fuck" while smoking weed was a cliche back in Newgrounds' heyday, so seeing it on a film isn't groundbreaking as it is tiring. That's why I couldn't get why these positive reviews praised this film for insightful commentary and the like, because things like "Oh, religion is bad and controls us!" or "Jews and Muslims could get along if they just talked to each other!" don't make an original thinkpiece in this day and age. I just got the idea that people praising this movie for being subversive and provoking haven't watched many cartoons to begin with, and I think that's why both 4chan and Tumblr had a particularly venomous reaction to this film just as soon as the first trailer came out. Instead of challenging the concept of R-rated animation, it seems like it's pandering to the crowd who thinks animation can only go so far intellectually, while patting itself on the back for acting like it's the first work of fiction ever to stick a middle finger at Pixar/Disney films.