The film is not quite smart enough to overcome the clichés and stereotypes it acknowledges but can’t entirely dismantle.
Their new movie is somewhat undone by the eternal paradox of the smart-dumb comedy: It is too often not enough of one or the other. (Perhaps, someday, a theology dissertation will be written on conceptions of the afterlife in the comedies of Rogen and Goldberg.)
There, people were saved during an apocalyptic rapture by acts of selfless kindness – narcissistic Hollywood actors were, of course, left behind. Ideas of belief, community and the nature of the world were also explored in “This Is the End,” the live-action comedy written and directed by Rogen and Goldberg. As he learns of the horrors that truly await them, he tries to mobilize his friends and colleagues to action. A few clues begin to lead a sausage named Frank (Rogen) to think that perhaps that isn’t so, and he sets out on an adventure to discover the truth. Introduced largely in a song with music by eight-time Oscar winner Alan Menken, here’s the premise: All the food in a supermarket believe that the human beings who pull them from the shelves are gods taking them to a joyous great beyond. The makers of the movie proudly proclaim it the first R-rated computer-animated comedy, and it is certainly more in league with the salty adults-only satires of Ralph Bakshi than it is typical family friendly animated fare. Without making presumptions about the particulars of specific children or families, do not mistake “Sausage Party” for a kids’ film, regardless of how cute the advertising may appear. Does it want to be a dirty movie or theological treatise?īut first, a warning. For something steeped in the juvenile directness of puns and body humor, there is an enigmatic heart to the new “Sausage Party,” an R-rated animated film from the sweetly filthy minds of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.
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