Raquel Villanueva, KUSA 1:21 PM. MDT August 12, 2016
NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 04: A view of the movie characters in costume at the premiere of "Sausage Party" at Sunshine Landmark on August 4, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) (Photo: Jamie McCarthy, 2016 Getty Images)
KUSA - For a comedy that has proudly earned it"s R-rating, "Sausage Party" seems out to offend the world and provide some guilty laughs along the way.
Set in a grocery store, the shelf inhabitants believe humans to be "gods" that lead them to great beyond, which exists past the automatic doors. What"s promised? Eternal bliss.
But you know what really happens next. And this truth may have you apologizing to every meal you"ve ever eaten.
If you love Seth Rogan"s humor and his all-star friends who join in on every film (we"re looking at you, James Franco) - then "Sausage Party" will be the cartoon of your dreams.
Just try looking at your food the same way again. We dare you.
Sausage Party | Official Red Band Trailer [2016 HD]
This Fridays Sausage Party is an animated adventure about talking food items that embark on an epic quest through a grocery store to understand their true destiny. Despite its anthropomorphic-oriented action, however, its anything but family-friendly. Conceived by Superbad masterminds Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen (who voices the films hero hot dog Frank), the film is a stunningly raunchy affair that culminates with arguably the dirtiest non-live-action sequence ever committed to film. In other words, it more than earns its R rating. In celebration of this profane comedy, and with all due respect to other adult-skewing animated features that earned different MPAA ratings (Fritz the Cat, Persepolis, Ghost in the Shell), weve assembled our own picks for the five best R-rated animated movies all of which, it should go without saying, are definitely not for kids.
Akira (1988)
Katsuhiro Otomos enduring sci-fi masterpiece an adaptation of his own popular Japanese manga is a futuristic head-trip of dystopian action and otherworldly nightmares. Set in a 21st-century Neo-Tokyo decades after a nuclear detonation led to World War III, this out-there tale concerns the efforts of various entities a biker gang, government agents, rebels to cope with a teen boy named Tetsuo who gains psychic powers and becomes intent on awakening the legendary super-powered Akira. With visuals that that are still stunning nearly 30years later, and with a far-fetched narrative rooted in apocalyptic terror, it remains the most influential anim ever produced and one of the finest genre works of the modern era.
Perfect Blue (1997)
Satoshi Kon is one of anims most psychologically incisive and surrealistic auteurs, and he began earning that reputation with this1997 debut.Perfect Blue isa twisty-turny thriller about a pop star who aims to make a name for herself as an actress and the ghoulish fan who soon begins stalking her. With the line between dreams and reality quickly beginning to blur, Kons maiden directorial effort is reminiscent of the moviesof Alfred Hitchcock and Italian giallo master Dario Argento (Suspiria, Opera). Featuring both nudity and bloodshed, as well as a healthy dose of lyrical symbolism, this beguiling feature proves to be a penetrating look at the pitfalls of fame and the relationship between art and both artist and consumer.
South Park: Bigger, Longer &Uncut (1999)
The 1999 big-screen debut of Matt Parker and Trey Stones Comedy Central cartoon had to struggle to getan R designation from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). The organizations stance toward swearwords and violence is hilariously skewered in this dirty musical comedy, which details a brewing conflict between the U.S. and Canada thats initiated by Kyle, Cartman, Stan, and Kenny sneaking into a theater to see an R-rated Terrance and Phillip blockbuster. Parodying everything from classic Broadway and Hollywood song-and-dance epics to beloved Disney sagas as well as Saddam Hussein, who is portrayed as the lover of Satan its an uproariously inventive, foul-mouthed, self-referential anti-censorship gem.
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
More narrative-driven (and haunting) than the directors prior animated movie,Waking Life (2001), Richard Linklaters 2006 adaptation of cyberpunk godfather Philip K. Dicks novel uses rotoscopping i.e., live action covered in computer animation for a story about a cop (Keanu Reeves) who employs a sci-fi suit to change his external appearance and go undercover to bust up a narcotics ring. Those aesthetics lend ominous, fluctuating beauty to a story concerned with the instability of identity and the way in which drugs further accentuate a loss of ones sense of self. Also featuring Robert Downey Jr., Winona Ryder, and Woody Harrelson, Linklaters mournful film is at once hypnotic and in its many scenes of anxious chitchat attuned to the alternately unifying and alienating power of conversation.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (2007)
Matt Maiellaro and Dave Williss adaptation of their Adult Swim Cartoon Network TV series was built for its fans as well as aficionados of the truly surreal. This feature is a mind-bogglingly nonsensical, plot-free whatsit that defies anything approaching a lucid synopsis. Focused on nonaquatic, nonteenage fast-food heroes Master Shake (a milkshake), Frylock (a flying box of french fries), and Meatwad (a wad of meat), this 90-minute New Jersey saga is as avant-garde as anything released in an American movie theater over the past decade. Making no concessions to formula, coherence, or sanity, this blast of abstract lunacy commencing with perhaps the greatest non-sequitur opening (involving death-metal-playing refreshment stand items) in cinematic history stands as a truly original off-the-wall work.
The owner of a California movie theatre is apologising after a trailer for the R-rated upcoming Seth Rogen comedy Sausage Party was shown ahead of a screening of Disneys Finding Dory.
The East Bay Times reports moviegoers eager to see the PG-rated Dory at a Brenden theatre in the Bay Area city of Concord were surprised earlier this month with a preview of Rogens Sausage Party, animated film with dark themes about what happens to food after its taken home from the supermarket.
Read: The very, very NSFW Sausage Party trailerll whip you into a frenzy
This made my day: "Concord Movie Theatre Apologizes for Showing "Sausage Party" Trailer for "Finding Dory" Crowd" https://t.co/eMGz8gMtg0
Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) June 29, 2016
Brenden vice president Walter Eichinger tells the newspaper it was a one-time mishap due to the theatre moving screens around in effort to accommodate several large last-minute groups wanting to see Dory. He says the wrong movie was started by mistake and insists it wont happen again.
Read Finding Dory review: A little less crying, a little more laughter
It was caught soon, but not until the trailer played, he said. We regret it, apologise for it, and we are not happy that it happened. We fully realize this trailer is not appropriate for Dory and we would never schedule something like that. The trailer for Sausage Party is not and never has been scheduled with Dory.
