Sausage Party

Mr E

Friday September 2nd.

Billy86

Wow, they still do that? Why? They are literally giving money to piracy in the process. That is a weird, mental practice that never should have left the 90s.

BlitzKrieg

I was looking forward to this (reviews I normally trust were very positive) but a lot of news has dropped today that the production may have screwed over most of their animation team, working them until they quit and cutting them from the credits despite their scenes being used in the film.

http://www.avclub.com/article/allegations-emerge-sausage-party-was-more-sausage--241150

Its something I cant abide by so if that becomes more concrete I'll be skipping this.

bnt

Uproxx has more including a comment from an animator who worked at the same studio but not on Sausage Party:

This isn’t an issue of not reading the contract clearly enough. In my time there, they didn’t even offer paper contracts, (and no one except an experienced supervisor would have any negotiation room with these people in any case.)

Animation work is project based, and animators know how the law works in Vancouver. You don’t have to be paid overtime. You don’t have to be credited. It’s not fair, but its all we have. It’s accepted as normal, and I can deal with this.

However, in this case, if you choose not to work for free and don’t do this overtime, you are vindictively targeted by Greg [co-director Tiernan] and he will make your life hell in order to teach you a lesson. I have seen this first hand.

A production studio is only allotted a certain amount of credits for their artists by Sony. It’s possible he ‘ran out’ of spots for everyone. But it’s possible, (and having worked with him I would say LIKELY,) he could have used them as an ‘incentive’ for people to work unpaid overtime… Only Greg will know the truth of this.

Is Nitrogen in the wrong for forcing people to work free overtime in exchange for a film credit? No. They’re not in the wrong, they’re just a**holes.

PS: the original comments are mostly at Cartoon Brew, and repeat the same story, but also include this:

Should I still see the movie? I don't want to support awful companies, but you animators may want people to see what you made.

Uncredited Animator wrote:

Movie looks great, I recommend seeing this wicked movie.
As matter of fact, we're all proud of this film, we worked our asses off, pulling long free extra hours to get the movie done on time, until we started to burn out.
Some decided to leave, some decided to stay.

Please check out IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1700841/fullcredits/...
there are most of animators that should've been credited.
(They've recently changed people to 'uncredited' after these articles)

spurious

Plenty language and a few funny moments, (most in the trailers), some very overt racism and rape 'jokes'. It sets out to be offensive and it is. It's not really well written enough to be offensive and good.

Far more amusing would be parents bringing kids to it because cartoon=for kids.

constitutionus

dont know why but for some reason this is getting an early one day release on monday the 29th in both IMC and VUE.

only ONE show in IMC tallaght for some reason vrs five in vue but there ya go.

Mr E

Odeon too... nice one.

Basq

My local Omniplex has two showings (7pm, 9.20pm) on Monday also.

MilesMorales1

Cineworld is showing it on Monday also.

constitutionus

just back from seeing it.

kinda conflicted .

on the one had i was entertained big time . its just looking back i dont think i can remember really laughing out loud that much (like i did with south parks movie waaaay back when for instances)

i think the fact alot of the stuffs been seen in the trailers has hurt it.

still theres ALOT thats not been seen and its still a solid 8/10 from me. i really DID enjoy myself at it.

And by god they earned that 16 rating. the ending is just mental.

MilesMorales1

I must confess, I ended up kinda hating it by the end. Barely laughed, stone faced I was.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

I really enjoyed it. It was immature and stupid for the majority with some genuinely inspired nuggets of gold, but either way it was entertaining from beginning to end.

You know what to expect from the trailers and the people involved, so if you go in with that in mind you'll more than likely enjoy yourself. If you're looking for the next Citizen Kane or something that would get Oscar nominated, maybe look elsewhere. And if you're easily offended, don't go to see this, simples...

Tony EH

constitutionus wrote: »

just back from seeing it.

kinda conflicted .

on the one had i was entertained big time . its just looking back i dont think i can remember really laughing out loud that much (like i did with south parks movie waaaay back when for instances)

i think the fact alot of the stuffs been seen in the trailers has hurt it.

still theres ALOT thats not been seen and its still a solid 8/10 from me. i really DID enjoy myself at it.

And by god they earned that 16 rating. the ending is just mental.

8/10 is not conflicted. That's a very good/great score for any film.

You enjoyed it. :pac:

constitutionus

yeah but i expected to love it !



to go back to the south park example i missed half the jokes the first time around i was laughing so much.

i didnt have that response to sausage party. still enjoyed it like i said , but its not on that level.

JaMarcusHustle

Probably one of the worst films I've paid to see.

I'm no film snob - I love a lot of these guys' films. This Is The End, Knocked Up, SuperBad, Pineapple Express, even Bad Neighbours and The Interview.

But this was terrible. It's the same joke over and over again - "oh look the food is cursing".

Severely disappointed, even as a fan of crude, unimaginative, stoner comedy.

Noveight

Saw it earlier today.

Overall, I enjoyed it. Having seen two trailers and knowing the guys in charge, I knew what to expect.

It will score 0 on a film buff's review, but had lots of laughable moments.

FunLover18

It's ridiculous. Absolutely barmy.

I enjoyed it for the most part but it was too long.

TerrorFirmer

Didn't love it as much as I expected, and I do usually love movies from these guys - I think it was because it relied far too much on the gimmick of being a crude, foul mouthed movie with the appearance of a Pixar film than being an inherently good solid comedy. I chuckled once or twice but genuine laughs were pretty rare.

Still entertaining and the good definitely outweighs the bad, but I would consider it a 6/10 movie overall.

constitutionus

i'd love to see how this will fare i the bible belt cause by god it gives religion a fair kicking.

i can see plenty of whackjobs down there protesting.

Mr E

constitutionus wrote: »

i'd love to see how this will fare i the bible belt cause by god it gives religion a fair kicking.

i can see plenty of whackjobs down there protesting.

This was posted earlier in the thread

https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/sausage-party.html

Saw it tonight. I enjoyed it well enough, but there were long stretches with no laughs at all (not even a smile). The setup for the sequel was good fun though.

BlitzKrieg

Mr E wrote: »

This was posted earlier in the thread

https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/sausage-party.html

Saw it tonight. I enjoyed it well enough, but there were long stretches with no laughs at all (not even a smile). The setup for the sequel was good fun though.

I like that at the end of the review they pretty much say racist jokes are ok but the pro atheist message and sex jokes are bad!

the priorities of faith.

Optimalprimerib

Really didn't enjoy this. The jokes and references while trying to be clever and intelligent just really were not that funny. I never felt endeared to any of the characters and the anti-religion message was shoved into our face so much it felt forced as a 'look at us we are so cool, because we're atheists and we curse and we smoke pot and that makes us cool. We are cool.... aren't we?'.

It falls into the anchorman category of seeming to be more fun to make, (for the actors and script writers at least) than to actually watch.

Liam McPoyle

Saw it today.

While there were some chuckles most of the best bits had been shown in the trailer.

The ending was flippin mental!

I'm sure 18 year old me would have enjoyed it a helluva lot more than 37 year old me.

5/10

Outlaw Pete

Didn't really like it too much. If I hadn't seen the trailer I might have liked it a little more. 4/10.

One atheistic sneer would have been more than enough. Kinda grates and seems smart arsey after that.

pumpkin4life

Mixed bag. Pretty creative/surreal in a good way with one or two great moments, but the atheist "great beyond" stuff came across as arrogant, self congratulatory and up its own hole, (one for the Richard Dawkins midwit lads) and being a Rogan film, you have the obligatory unfunny jokes about smoking joints. Weed jokes have never been funny lads.

That said, its watchable enough. If you have nothing better to do, I'd give it a go.

homerun_homer

I didn't care to see this from seeing the trailers but the reviews were pretty good so I thought "best case scenario is I get surprised like This is the End, worst case it is up there with all Seth Rogen's other output which I don't care for." It fell into the latter scenario. Like I expected it was cursing for the sake of it, the overtly religious joking/symbolism was rammed down your throat so much I'm surprised they didn't make a crass joke about it.

I'm not a prude but it felt like it was just gratuitously crude and profanity filled for the sake of being as far from a kids cartoon as possible, but also because Seth Rogen and co have no other go to form of humour except for sex jokes, swearing and getting stoned. I wanted to enjoy it but came out thinking I'd seen all I needed to see in the trailer.

ShooterSF

Optimalprimerib wrote: »

Really didn't enjoy this. The jokes and references while trying to be clever and intelligent just really were not that funny. I never felt endeared to any of the characters and the anti-religion message was shoved into our face so much it felt forced as a 'look at us we are so cool, because we're atheists and we curse and we smoke pot and that makes us cool. We are cool.... aren't we?'.

It falls into the anchorman category of seeming to be more fun to make, (for the actors and script writers at least) than to actually watch.

You take that back!

Call Me Jimmy

I have enjoyed stuff from Seth Rogan in the past, especially pineapple express but I get the sense that with a lot of his movies that it's no so much a well written piece, but usually ideas for getting specific actors to do their thing.

Like they could write a scene, 'Jonah Hill's character gets in trouble with the principle' and the best **** will come if they just let him have some takes.

So a film written by them that has to make do without the physical presence of the actors is going to show up the weakness of their writing much more so

Chip Whitley

Saw this last night and was pretty disappointed. There were far more misses than hits in terms of jokes. The weed smoking jokes were like something out of an early 00's Method Man film, just really bad. The religious and social themes started out ok and funny but were just hammered into the ground by the films end. The voice work was good, the premise is what had me looking forward to this and I'll give them props for trying some out-there things like the ending sequences but overall I really wish I had gone to see something else with my rare trip to the cinema and waited for this to come on Netflix.

Bowlardo

regret going to see it in the cinema. grant to watch on the telly at home but fell gutted wasted money going to the movie to see it