More than any animated movie you've seen so far in your life, Sausage Party is profane, obscene and downright lewd. As one of the first animated features to be catered exclusively to adults, that crude quality benefits it as much as possible during its less than 90-minute running time. In addition to the sexual innuendo present in nearly every other line of dialogue, the script (by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Kyle Hunter and Ariel Shaffir) infuses allegory of the religious, the political and the social, and there are laughs aplenty, to be sure (particularly amusing is the quarrel among and the eventual friendship between Sammy Bagel Jr. and Karim Abdul Lavash, two edible pastries that clearly represent two races standing on opposite ends of religious spectrum in a very sacred land). The final act, however, in which all the products in Shopwell's supermarket (the movie's setting, for the most part) fight the humans in their protest to be eaten and otherwise used, feels redundant and superfluous. Haven't these guys learned by now - from the lead characters in Toy Story franchise - that it's best if you just accept your fate in a human dominated world, even if that means being digested by the "Gods"? Still, Party delivers what it promises: a satisfying good time for the deviant child in all of us.
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