Sausage Party Review: 5 Ups And 5 Downs

1. It's Really Just Another Stoner Comedy

If Sausage Party had been a twenty minute short, possibly released by Funny Or Die, with the basic concept, broad religious content and the knock-out ending played without filler, it could have been a highlight of 2016. However, stretched to feature-length it's just another mildly funny stoner comedy; in a bid to push a rather one-note idea into cinemas the film's had to be padded heavily with an unnecessary antagonist, stereotype-based gags and a bunch of random weed jokes, resulting in Rogen and Goldberg going through the same old tricks only with a different background.

The same was true of near World War III started The Interview and, to a lesser extent, apocalyptic This Is The End, but when you're dealing with what could have been a real high concept knock-out that's a disappointment. Especially when, like the rather similar Deadpool, the film seems to think it's a lot more subversive than it actually is.

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