Sony PicturesSausage Party is where it's at this weekend.
But it's not for everyone's taste, that's for sure.
In short, the films centers around an adorable hot dog named Frank (Seth Rogen) and his hot dog bun girlfriend (Kristen Wiig). They live in a supermarket where they believe that customers are actually gods who have the power to take them outside to another world they call the "great beyond."
Sounds like a perfectly sweet Pixar flick, doesn't it?
Well, it's not.
Sausage Party is a raunchy R-rated movie for adults only. (We repeat, it's a raunchy R-rated movie for adults only!) It's full of cussing, politically incorrect stereotyping, a drug addict (James Franco) tripping on bath salts and hot dog buns with mouths that look like vaginas.
And for that, it's the perfect movie to see this weekend.
What better way to leave the noise of the presidential campaign and any number of doomsday news cycles behind than to sit back and laugh at a bunch of crude animated food items?
And laugh you will.
Sausage Party begins with a pack of hot dogs talking in very graphic detail about what they'd like to do with the sexy hot dog buns.
We eventually meet a cornucopia of characters. There's a Woody Allen-like bagel (Edward Norton) feuding with a piece of Middle Eastern lavash (David Krumholtz)! A box of grits is played by Craig Robinson and Salma Hayek's work as a lesbian taco is muy hilarioso.
Then there's a female douche (played by Nick Kroll to Jersey Shore perfection) who is dirty in all sorts of ways.
Chaos breaks out when Frank and his fellow food products learn that customers actually buy them to be eaten.
But here's the genius twist—Rogen and his co-writer Evan Goldberg pull a Disney on us and thread the 84-minute film with a moral to the story about accepting other people's differences and learning to live together.
And that's exactly what all the characters do in the last scene of Sausage Party. They come together in such a filthy way that in any other movie it would be considered porn. Let's just say that the bagel and the lavash definitely kiss and make up. Fifty Shades of Food, anyone?
Sometimes we need a little vulgarity in our lives and Sausage Party serves it all up perfectly.
Sausage Party is in theaters tomorrow, Aug. 12.