15 Controversial Movies That Actually Live Up To The Hype

11. Sausage Party

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Columbia Pictures

The Film:

An adult computer animated comedy focusing on items of food doing unspeakable things, featuring an incredible cast, involving Seth Rogen and made by a studio best known for making Thomas the Tank Engine? Sign. Us. Up!

The Controversy:

Full of racial stereotypes, anti-religion messages and a seriously graphic food orgy, this is the most offensive computer-animated film ever.

Why It Was Right:

Sausage Party is definitely the weakest film on this list. Aside from the WTF food orgy scene, it isn't as funny as it should be, but as a story it's strong and the satire hits hard, making it an undeniably provocative work.

Religious people will be very offended, since for the most part Sausage Party doesn't hold back in attacking people's beliefs. The film depicts the items of food believing the human shoppers are gods taking them to "The Great Beyond", when in fact they're going to be eaten. The removal of these beliefs are depicted as removing systems of repression and improving everyone's lives, so essentially the message here is that religion is bad.

To be honest, the relentless dissing of people's beliefs is very uncomfortable to watch, as are all the racist stereotypes. Characters include a brash, misogynistic Arab lavash, a neurotic Jewish bagel, Mexican lesbian taco, homosexual Greek olives, a Native American bottle of firewhisky and, most memorably of all, Nazi German Sauerkraut who want to exterminate the Juice.

Do not watch it if you are easily offended.

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