Movie Review: Sausage Party

Boring characters and a weak story undo a clever concept. This film is essentially “Toy Story,” but with food replacing the toys and constant R-rated humor. However, the characters her are more characterizations and stereotypes as opposed to anything original or interesting. There’s a whiney Jewish bagel and a Spanish taco in the main cast. There’s never any reason to care about any of them. Slightly more fleshed out, Frank the sausage and Brenda the bun carry no emotional weight. When something of significance happens, you never feel any empathy towards them. Too much is played for laughs. The plot is all over the place and never seems to find a grove. There are a couple of moments that are brilliant, but they never capitalize on those ideas and move on to the next joke. The humor is almost entirely sex jokes and foul language and is just never that funny when referring to pieces of food. The end is just bizarre and doesn’t fit the rest of the film.
** out of *****