Motion Picture Association of America rating, R - restricted. “Sausage Party” (Columbia) - Catholic News Service classification, O - morally offensive.

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The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R - restricted. The Catholic News Service classification is O - morally offensive. Pervasive blasphemy, a debased view of human sexuality, including a frivolous attitude toward perverse acts, graphic obscene images, benignly viewed drug use, about a half-dozen instances of profanity, relentless rough and crude language. Thus the eventual overthrow of the store’s prevailing mythology is celebrated by a mass orgy that’s supposed to count as a happy ending. An insult to believers of every stripe, this libido idolizing film, whose cast also includes Michael Cera, Jonah Hill and Salma Hayek, portrays all religion as a con job that leads to violent divisiveness and sexual repression. But when a returned jar of honey mustard (voiced by Danny McBride) reveals how people actually treat their edibles, it launches the sausage on a quest for the truth. The inhabitants of a suburban supermarket - most prominently a sausage (voice of Seth Rogen) and his girlfriend, a bun (voice of Kristen Wiig) - believe that a joyful existence awaits them in “the Great Beyond” once human shoppers, whom they worship as gods, choose them from the shelves and take them home. Mulderig is on the staff of Catholic News Service.Īnimated food items push an atheist agenda and glorify the basest forms of carnality in this disgusting spitball of a comedy from directors Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan.

The film contains pervasive blasphemy, a debased view of human sexuality, including a frivolous attitude toward perverse acts, graphic obscene images, benignly viewed drug use, about a half-dozen instances of profanity and relentless rough and crude language. Though most of the other products refuse to believe his harrowing account, Frank is bold - and intellectually honest - enough to set out on a quest for the truth.Īn insult to believers of every stripe, this libido idolizing film - whose cast also includes Michael Cera, Jonah Hill and Salma Hayek (as a lesbian taco) - portrays all religion as a con job that leads to violent divisiveness and sexual repression. Viewed with a leer, this prospect becomes the excuse for endless smirking, sophomoric wordplay.īut then a returned jar of honey mustard (voiced by Danny McBride), traumatized by his experience beyond the store’s walls, reveals how people actually treat their edibles. Together with their fellow shelf dwellers, Frank and Brenda believe that an ecstatic existence awaits them in “the Great Beyond” once human shoppers, whom they worship as gods, choose them and bring them home.Īmong other things, the couple look forward to being released from their respective packages and united in the culinary equivalent of sexual bonding. This nadir is reached by way of a story about the inhabitants of a suburban supermarket, most prominently a sausage named Frank (voice of Seth Rogen, who also co-wrote) and his girlfriend, a bun called Brenda (voice of Kristen Wiig). But to have such figures push an atheist agenda while glorifying the basest forms of carnality would appear to represent a new low for the entertainment industry. The big-screen version of “Fritz the Cat,” for instance, dates back to 1972. The supposedly humorous effect of having cartoon characters, who would normally be associated with children’s films, spout obscenities has, of course, been aimed at before in Hollywood. That’s the moronic message of “Sausage Party” (Columbia), a disgusting spitball of an animated comedy from directors Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan. NEW YORK (CNS) - If everyone in the world would just abandon belief in God, peace would prevail and life would be one long, joyous, pansexual, narcotics-fueled love-in.

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