Sausage Party.

• Author: Fisher, Anthony
• Position: DVD - Video recording review - Brief article

The feature-length animated film Sausage Party, released on DVD and online in November, is in many ways a typical Seth Rogen bro-fest of dick jokes (I mean, just read the title) and other forms of deliberately politically incorrect comedy. But in place of sex-crazed stoner man-children, you now have sex-crazed stoner anthropomorphic grocery store items, including the film's primary antagonist, a vengeful raging douche.

Even when you see the jokes coming a mile away, the film is still frequently hilarious--and an incisive exercise in socio-political satire as well. Metaphors lurk behind nearly every grocery store gag, imbuing the film with an original and anarchic spirit that endures after the shock value of foul-mouthed cartoon food has worn off.

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