FOOD FOR thought

Sweary laughs are on the menu...

Sausage Party Starring Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd Directors Greg Tiernan, Conrad Vernon ETA 12 August

From Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg comes the first R-rated CG-animation movie, about a supermarket sausage, Frank (Rogen), who discovers the truth about how he came to be – and the fate that awaits him (and all his food-buddy friends) upon leaving the supermarket. Said fate is not, of course, a blissful journey to the nirvana of ‘The Great Beyond’ as all food stuffs believe, but rather a massacre of slicing, dicing, boiling and frying before being devoured.

With a work-in-progress print screened at SXSW in March, it’s fair to say that we can expect Sausage Party to be the sweariest toon since South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, while it also fizzes with a plethora of wildly inappropriate sex gags and a penchant for turning racial and cultural stereotypes on their heads. Well, what do you expect from the guys who made The Interview? And so we have Edward Norton’s Jewish bagel clashing with David Krumholtz’s Arabic flatbread...

“People like to project their emotions on to the things around them – their toys, their

cars, their pets,” Rogen told viewers at SXSW. “That’s what Pixar’s done for the last 20 years. So we thought: ‘What would it be like if our food had feelings?’ We quickly realised that it would be fucked up.” As if watching pixel-perfect characters drop constant f-bombs isn’t funny enough regardless, the voice cast is a who’s who of comic talent to ensure every filthy jest elicits maximum guffaws: Jonah Hill, James Franco, Michael Cera, Bill Hader, Danny McBride and Salma Hayek are all on supportinglarynx duties, while Kristen Wiig co-stars as the bun that Rogen’s sausage is desperate to slide into.