Sausage Party

murpho999

ShooterSF wrote: »

You take that back!

Gotta agree, Anchorman and a lot of Will Ferrell stuff is completely overrated.
Don't see the appeal and people for some reason quickly deem it to be a classic which it isn't.

As for Sausage Party; I was hoping for a lot, I found it entertaining but not hilarious.

A couple of laughing moments but to be honest a day later, I can't remember what they were.

Didn't like the Hitler joke or the end 'food porn' scene which left me literally going 'WTF is going on here?'

Tried to much to be crude for the sake of it in my opinion which leaves it lacking substance or real wit.

Fitz*

I thought the ending was one of the funniest scenes I've seen in a movie in a long time!

homerun_homer

murpho999 wrote: »

Gotta agree, Anchorman and a lot of Will Ferrell stuff is completely overrated.

Gotta agree with you. I find that film funnier to talk about particular scenes than to laugh at the actual scenes in the film itself. I don't even think Sausage Party will have that for me though.

Hollister11

Going to see this tomorrow. I'm really looking forward to it.

whiskeyman

Hollister11 wrote: »

Going to see this tomorrow. I'm really looking forward to it.

That was a lot of peoples problems with this... after seeing the trailer, we looked forward to it too much! :P

It's not that I regret seeing it... I think I'd always more regret if I didn't after finding the trailers hilarious, but the full film just didn't cut it.
Sure it still had some more laughs, but it was nowhere as near as good as I would have hoped.

KillerShamrock

It started of well and I was enjoying it then it just turned into a steaming pile of sh1t.

The Stephen Hawking thing was just offensive not funny in the slightest, the hitler thing I didnt mind but the OH hated it thought it was really poor taste. The orgy at the end was just sad no need for it at all.

Best bits in the trailer don't waste money on this film should of went to see bridget jones baby instead

isntlee

Yeah, unfortunately I was going to see this too but it seems folk say 'don't bother'

bnt

Update: the news that Sausage Party is the subject of a new academic critique: ‘Speciesism Party: A Vegan Critique of Sausage Party’ in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 24(4):767-786 · April 2018, by Dr Matthew Cole (Open University) and Dr Kate Stewart (Nottingham Trent University). From the abstract:

This paper provides a critical vegan reading of the comedy animation film Sausage Party (2016), directed by Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan and starring Seth Rogen and Kristen Wiig. Such a reading is situated within an emerging vegan studies framework (Wright 2015) that is sensitive to the reproduction of unequal power relations between humans and other species, but also how those power inequalities intersect with intra-human power relations along the lines of gender, sexuality, "race", age, class, different experiences of embodiment and so on. Sociologist Erika Cudworth argues that "[w]e need as full an analysis of social intersectionality as we are capable of, "so that the critical focus remains on "relational systems of power" (Cudworth 2015, 101). Cudworth (2011) also introduced the concept of anthroparchy, to signify the human domination of nature, with "nature" including but not limited to other animals. In that context, Sausage Party perpetuates anthroparchy, in so far as it normalizes the consumption of "animal products" for the audience.

:pac:

Fysh

bnt wrote: »

Update: the news that Sausage Party is the subject of a new academic critique: ‘Speciesism Party: A Vegan Critique of Sausage Party’ in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 24(4):767-786 · April 2018, by Dr Matthew Cole (Open University) and Dr Kate Stewart (Nottingham Trent University). From the abstract:

:pac:

Jesus wept. I half want to read the paper to see if they keep a straight face all the way through while peddling such obvious nonsense. But a vein in my eye is already twitching from the abstract alone, so it's probably best I justeave well enough alone...

endacl

Are you sure it wasn’t one of these?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/new-sokal-hoax/572212/

Billy86

I kind of enjoy those kind of readings (the original Bladerunner being viewed from an immigrants perspective is a great example) but sweet Jesus that's ridiculous. Its a fun, lightweight stoner movie that Rogen has got nailed down pretty well, so rammed full of dick jokes that its right there in the title. Trying to public some vegan type reading on it is.........

bnt

Fysh wrote: »

Jesus wept. I half want to read the paper to see if they keep a straight face all the way through while peddling such obvious nonsense. But a vein in my eye is already twitching from the abstract alone, so it's probably best I justeave well enough alone...

The key word in that abstract is "intersect". In Liberal Arts academia today, intersectionality is all the rage. It's basically a fancy way of saying "people and things are not defined by a single characteristic, they can actually be more than one thing at a time". So the movie is not just anti-Vegan, it's also about perpetuating Man's dominance over Nature because it's about Meat.

donegal_man

I honestly thought that was a spoof, however given that Dr Stewart has previously published a vegan critique of Dr Who I thought I'd check it out. Lo and behold in Nottingham Trent University's online archive http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/32758/

Fysh

donegal_man wrote: »

I honestly thought that was a spoof, however given that Dr Stewart has previously published a vegan critique of Dr Who I thought I'd check it out. Lo and behold in Nottingham Trent University's online archive http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/32758/

From that paper - whose full text is not available until January 9th, more's the pity:
"In this paper, we argue that Sausage Party provides an exemplary case study in the cultural reproduction of such an intersected relational system of power. It celebrates ecocidal, oppressive consumption practices at the same time as it reproduces ideas and beliefs, or social norms, of unequal relations between species, between genders, between the differently abled, and so on. This may be made clearer by situating the critique of Sausage Party in the context of recent research that may be broadly construed as operating within a vegan studies framework."

....

Let's all ignore the fact that Sausage Party also featured non-meat products as characters. And that it was a stoner comedy.

The film has its faults, sure, but "it's upholding an anti-vegan message" is about the dumbest attempt I've yet heard of criticising it.

Tony EH

bnt wrote: »

Update: the news that Sausage Party is the subject of a new academic critique: ‘Speciesism Party: A Vegan Critique of Sausage Party’ in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 24(4):767-786 · April 2018, by Dr Matthew Cole (Open University) and Dr Kate Stewart (Nottingham Trent University). From the abstract:

:pac:

I nearly stopped at "...critical vegan reading...". :rolleyes:

Hard to believe that isn't an elaborate joke. I'm sure there various avenues for Vegans to travel down if they wish to be taken more seriously. But, a critique of a slightly naughty, adult, animated movie set in a shopping mall isn't one of them.

It sounds like a Reeves and Mortimer sketch from the 90's.

Agent Coulson

Amazon making a spin off series

‘Sausage Party’ Animated Series Cooked Up At Amazon

https://deadline.com/2022/10/sausage-party-animated-series-amazon-1235155165/