3/9/2023 0 Comments The sausage fest movie![]() But while there is probably no hope for an animated feature Oscar nomination – the mind reels at the thought of it screening for octogenarians at the Academy's esteemed Samuel Goldwyn Theater – Sony should give it a serious shove anyway, just to be a disrupter in the race. In any case, Sausage Party is one of the best films of the year for its sheer audacity and deft handling of hot button subject matter. He also, according to Rogen, tried to explain the premise to Birdman and The Revenantdirector Alejandro G. He became a bit of an ambassador, convincing others – like Salma Hayek – to be a part of it. Norton was a huge champion for the film as soon as Goldberg pitched it to him. ![]() "And that kind of led us down the path of beliefs and how people face the idea that you expire in different ways, and they have different ideas to support those ideas." "If food doesn't think it gets eaten, what does it think," Rogen recalled brainstorming. Yes, a movie about talking food that ends in a condiment-soaked orgy digs into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – with remarkable aplomb. That premise, as well as many stoned nights wandering around supermarkets with a pad in hand, opened countless doors to a number of interesting areas, including the testy relationship between a pita (David Krumholtz) and bagel that sounds like Woody Allen (Edward Norton). A sausage, Frank (Seth Rogen), learns the awful truth – that the gods eat food and it's horrific – and attempts to reveal his findings. The crux of the narrative centers on the notion of "The Great Beyond," a heaven-like utopia that various anthropomorphic items in a supermarket believe they will be carted off to once "chosen" by "gods" (customers). "We were like, 'Someone is going to make an R-rated Pixar movie one day and I'm going to be pissed if we're not the guys to do it." ![]() "The day after we knew we wanted to make a movie about food, we decided food had to f- each other," Rogen said. Rogen and company set out to follow the structure and tropes of those films with a story about talking food, but of course things immediately went in a trademark vulgar direction from there. The film, co-written by Evan Goldberg and Jonah Hill and directed by Greg Tiernan (Thomas and Friends) and Conrad Vernon (Shrek 2), was born out of a love of animated movies, Rogen said, particularly the Pixar brand. There is nothing like Sausage Party, which first screened as a work in progress at the South by Southwest film festival in March. That conundrum for the industry's trade association is as good a way as any into discussing the film, which dabbles in religious and socio-political overtones while also featuring an actual douche bag sexually assault a juice box. "They crossed into this unprecedented area of, 'Is a d-? If it's a pita bread's ball sack, is it a ball sack?'" 12, at a post-sausage Q&A session Thursday night. Sausage Party drops into theaters on August 12."I think the MPAA didn't know how to handle food," Seth Rogen said of his raunchy animated comedy Sausage Party, releasing Aug. ![]() As the clip below shows, Sausage Party goes full throttle in the comedy department. With voice talent including Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill, Bill Hader, Michael Cera, James Franco, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, Paul Rudd, Nick Kroll, David Krumholtz, Edward Norton, and Salma Hayek, Sausage Party is another A-list conglomeration of comedy talent coming together to help Rogen, Goldberg and Hill, with direction by Conrad Vernon, realize their story to its fullest, darkest extent. They're also all awaiting their graduation to the glorious world of shopper's homes, until Rogen's sausage link finds out what's really going on, and leads a mission to free his fellow foodstuffs. The grocery store is like a college campus, with the food forming friend groups, flirtations and hijinx. So here's the synopsis: Seth Rogen plays a sausage that leads an epic journey to find out the truth of his and his fellow grocery store food's fate. It's also raunchy, R-rated and hilarious, if this new clip is any indication. The reason we're bullish on Sausage Party? Because it was written by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Jonah Hill, and it imagines a world in which the food we buy at the grocery is sentient, and sentimental, and ultimately aghast to find out that when they're chosen and taken home, what awaits them is hell on earth. That's right Sausage Party is the rare existential animated movie about food, asking us to considering what it would be like if grocery store food had feelings. Sony Pictures' Sausage Partyis the upcoming animated film that we've got a sneaking suspicion will be a late summer winner. ![]()
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