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Sausage Party
Plot (Spoiler Alert)Food at a grocery store believes that when they leave the store that they're going to a place they believe is the great beyond and that the humans are gods. But what the food don't know is that everything they believe is a lie. What the humans do is kill them by cutting them up, roasting them and eating them. Few have found out the truth and must find a way to put a stop to it. One of them is a sausage named Frank and he tries to warn everyone about what monsters the humans are, but they don’t believe him. There was one little sausage, Barry, who escaped a kitchen and returned to the grocery store to help his friend, Frank. There are two dimensions and one of them is where the humans can not see that the food is alive, but Barry has discovered that they can see them if they inject bath salts into the humans’ bodies. The humans freak out and expose themselves as the monsters they really are in front of the food. All the foods work together to destroy the humans. After that the food celebrate by having an orgy. Later they are told that all of this is just a cartoon. One of them makes a portal that can take them to the real world to meet their creators. 
Blaine: My friend, Sheri, told me she found out it took ten years for “Sausage Party” to be made and it’s true. Apparently when Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg pitched the idea to film companies they turned the idea down, but Seth and Evan never gave up.They were so desperate that they were willing to show up to the meetings in a hot dog costume. Luckily their search was coming to an end after the met producer, Megan Ellison (Zero Dark Thirty, Her & Foxcatcher) and took a chance with the idea. Evan and Seth said it’s the only movie where they had to put their own money into a film and then Megan put in money as well before they had any commitment for distribution because they really believed in it and wanted it to get made. Megan showed as much enthusiasm for the idea as much as Seth and Evan and those two found it incredible to find someone who could relate to that. Because Pixar has shown the secret life of toys and cars and that lead Seth and Evan to ask themselves what’s the secret life behind food. One of the things Seth and Evan usually write about is religion and so the story is what the food thinks the after life is like for them. My favorite character in the film is Barry, voiced by Michael Cera, the small sausage with a dent on his head, because I find the way he says his lines the funniest, he actually has the best lines, and I love all the different kinds of expressions he shows on his face. Another thing I like about him is he starts off as someone who is scared, but then he finds the courage to stand up for what he is fighting for. He’s lost one friend, Carl, but he feels it’s not too late to save the one who has inspired him and that’s Frank. I was expecting James Franco and Paul Rudd to do the voices of food too, but they voice humans. James Franco plays a disgusting drug addict with this weird hairdo and big belly. And Paul does the voice of a nerdy store manager who hates his job. I’m really impressed with some of the actors' voice work like how David Krumholtz for one and how he did the Middle Eastern accent for the lavash character, Kareem Abdul Lavash. I’m glad Brenda gave the bad news about how she can’t do it with Teresa in a nice way instead of pushing her away or telling her she is ridiculous. It could lead Teresa to being the one who is kind to one character then hating the person they’ve done so much for. I’ve already seen something like that in another movie this year and I hate to see it twice in one year. Brenda is just following the rules and Teresa understands in a disappointing way. And it works out between them in the end after they find out the rules don’t matter any more. The relationship between Frank and Brenda: They have their differences, but they stick together no matter what and they both know there is no one else they rather be with than each other because they are soul mates. The films co-composer and song writer is Alan Menken best known for doing Disney classic films like “The Little Mermaid”, “Beauty and the Beast” and “Aladdin”. Everyone on the project has grown up listening and loving his work from the Disney movies and one of them knew Alan and that’s how he got hired. Alan wrote the first two drafts for the song the characters sing at the beginning called “The Great Beyond” and then Seth, Evan and a couple others added some of their own words in it. While watching the movie for the first time, I asked myself how are these food characters going to solve this problem? I mean the humans live on food and can’t survive without it. The junkie I thought would become the foods' best friend or something, but apparently not. Killing the humans I thought was an option after seeing Barry representing the junkies head as an example that the humans can be killed. I like that they blow up a guys head by putting mints and soda in his mouth and in order to create an eruption, in other words, having his head blow up like a balloon with too much air inside. And then having an orgy after killing all the humans in the store is a great way to celebrate. LOL. I really like how “Sausage Party” ends. I think it’s a smart way to end a movie like this with the characters starting a new adventure by going into another dimension and sticking together after what they’ve been through. I don’t want to see a sequel because one is good enough. I think “Sausage Party” is a clever movie and I’m glad that Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg never gave up, so that audiences could see the story of talking food with potty mouths and my rating is five out of five stars. Alternate ending |