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What the hell did I just watch?

Thats a phrase that has sprung to mind many a time over the course of my movie watching life. It may be a low budget B movie that failed to live upto even the lowest expectations, a movie that I had hope for based on the people involved which would actually prove to be beyond awful (Kevin Smith cough cough) or a huge blockbuster which takes hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office but leaves me cold as a viewer.

Now I'm not sure which category the movie in question here falls into. True it was a low budget affair (only $19 million) but it is far from a B movie as it features the 'talents' of the likes of Seth Rogen, Kristen Wigg, Danny McBride, James Franco and even Edward Norton, the film in question is of course Sausage Party.

So to the 'plot' of the aforementioned piece of art. We are introduced to a pack of sausages that are sat on a shelf in a supermarket (shouldnt they be in the chiller?) who like all the other items in the store have faces and arms and legs and can all talk to one another though of course to us humans they simply look like the items we are going to buy.

Anyway everyone in the store dreams of making it to the Great Beyond, the place they go to when they are bought by one of us lovely customers who to the residents of the store are perceived as gods who are effectively taking them to heaven. One sausage in particular by the name of Frank longs to get to the Great Beyond in order to be able to effectively have sex with his girlfriend Brenda who is a hotdog bun.

They soon find out however that there is no Great Beyond and that we humans actually take them home and eat them. Luckily Frank and Brenda escape the shopping basket before leaving the store but they end up far from their own shelf and have to traverse the various departments of the supermarket to get back 'home'. Another sausage named Barry however is not so lucky and he barely escapes being cooked and eaten.

Barry then meets a drug using human who in his wasted haze can actually see the food stuffs for what they really are, not that he can tell anyone as he ends up being beheaded.

Whilst all of this is going on Frank and Brenda meet a variety of colourful characters and are hunted down by a deranged toilet brush holder who wants revenge on Frank for bending the handle of his brush.

Eventually Barry makes it back along with a piece of chewing gum in a wheelchair who is the food representation of Stephen Hawking. The food then all bands together, drugging any human in the store before brutally killing them. They then celebrate with a huge orgy featuring the animated representation of a vast array of sexual kinks including homages to the Human Centipede as well as many gay and lesbian moments.

At the end of the film they discover they are cartoon characters and enter a portal to go and meet the actors who voice them. This scene was filmed but not used as I guess they wanted to keep it for a sequel as they attempt to bring us an R rated Roger Rabbit.

Thinking back to Sausage Party i have two thoughts -

1) Who the hell ever thought that this was a good idea

2) How the hell did I manage to sit through almost 90 minutes of this crap

Because you see thats exactly what this film is, crap. Yes it is crass, lewd and in your face but that doesn't mean that it is any good. Now don't get me wrong, when its done right adult humor can be highly entertaining. Early seasons of Family Guy, South Park and even American Dad are great and I loved them all but Sausage Party just comes across as a project where the people involved thought they were being clever but unfortunately they most certainly were not.

Now my first question was how did this get made, the answer is clear as it was written by Rogen and Jonah Hill and therefore I guess the studio just gave them the greenlight to do what they liked, especially since they roped all of their celebrity buddies in too. However all this film does for me is take me back to another 'comedy' which featured a multitude of famous names that was also a complete pile of manure, that film was Movie 43, a film so bad that I would advise never giving even one second of your life to it.

In truth I'm probably missing the point of Sausage Party as it did take $140 million at the box office and has a score of 83% on Rotten Tomatoes but it just left me cold and failed to make me chuckle even once.

I have watched and reviewed plenty of terrible films that were released in 2016 and the worst of all was the winner of my worst movie of the year award Ghostbusters but Sausage Party is so terrible that it could be considered Ghostbusters equal in the godawful stakes and so with that in mind I am going to make it my second ever 0 out of 10 movie. Do yourselves a huge favour and steer well clear of this abomination of celluloid.