By Emilio Frenk
Directors: Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon
Cast (Voice): Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Edward Norton, Danny McBride, Bill Hader, James Franco, Nick Kroll, David Krumholtz, Craig Robinson, Paul Rudd and Salma Hayek.
Rating: Good.
Another animated movie hits the theaters this week and it´s not a Disney, Pixar or a Dreamworks movie. In fact it is a rated R animated movie and it´s “Sausage Party”, one of the most bizarre and original comedies I´ve seen in a while.
The movie starts with Frank (Seth Rogen) a packed sausage who constantly flirts with Brenda (Kristen Wiig) a Hot Dog Bun who both are anxious to get out of their local supermarket and meet “The Great Beyond” which are the homes of the humans, who they consider them as gods.
The problem starts when Honey Mustard (Danny McBride) comes back to the shelves of the store and warns the others that there is no such thing as “The Great Beyond” and everything is a lie.
Later in the story Frank begins to realize the true nature and destiny of his character and tries to convince Brenda Bunn to battle the humans, which now they are considered monsters.
Eventually they will join forces with Sammy Bagel (Edward Norton) who does a great impersination of Woody Allen and Kareem Abdul Lavash (David Krumholtz) and Teresa Taco (Salma Hayek) to save the other food members and themselves.
Despite the gross moments and silly humour, “Sausage Party” delivers the goods and prooves once again that both Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are the most talented filmmakers in the comedy genre.
I both describe them as the dinamic duo of Hollywood and every movie they have made of this genre it´s really funny.
This movie has also elements of movies like “Superbad” and “This is the End” which I recommend to see before watching “Sausage Party” so you can understand the humour, unless you have seen them both.
The direction by both Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon who worked with Rogen in the 2009 animated “Monsters vs. Aliens” delivers again but of course in the adult level.
I understand why the movie took a while to get made but it´s a worth seeing one specially if you want to have good laughs and want to be entertained.
Although I have to warn people that the movie does go far in some of the comedy and be open to it, specially with the climatic scene of the movie.
Despite of being offensive and gross, Sausage Party is so far one of the best comedies of this year and I definitely give it a huge recommendation.