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Eight years after Seth Rogen's R-rated comedy Sausage Party premiered, Amazon has released an eight-episode sequel series, Sausage Party: Foodtopia. The series continues the story of the anthropomorphic food characters from the movie.
Featuring mass food murder, perverted humor, and adult jokes, the animated comedy is not for children and is a bold choice for Amazon. It stars the voice talents of Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Michael Cera, and Edward Norton, and premiered on Prime Video today.
Sausage Party: Foodtopia- Beyond a Happily Ever After
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Sausage Party: Foodtopia begins with the climactic battle between foods and “humies” (humans), with which the 2016 movie ended. The battle left very few humans on Earth which is now dominated by food items. The anthropomorphic food characters are free to do as they please and they are busy celebrating their newfound freedom.
Frank and Brenda, a hot dog and a bun who are the leading characters in the show, are confident that they have control over the new situation, and their newfound freedom, and know the path that comes now.
The Prime Video series Sausage Party: Foodtopia explores how life isn't as rosy for the food characters as they imagined. They struggle to navigate the outside world beyond the grocery store and face unexpected challenges, like rain, which threatens their civilization. Realizing they need humans to help them, the series cleverly shows that there's always more beyond the happy ending.
Raunchy jokes become the only selling point
While Sausage Party had just enough comedy for its 88-minute runtime, with five to ten minutes of cleverness, the series struggles to maintain this over eight half-hour episodes.
The movie's raunchy R-rated comedy worked best as a one-time thing. Sausage Party: Foodtopia, attempting to extend the storyline with similar humor, fails to offer real narrative or character development, ending up as a repetitive and stretched-out version of the original.
Like Sausage Party staged a critique of organized religion, Sausage Party: Foodtopia did the same with late-stage capitalism. The movie has satirical critiques abound that the creative team, led by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and Conrad Vernon, have laid out well. But it is only confined to acknowledging that capitalism is superficially bad and there is nothing new or exciting about it.
The first few episodes of the series are just a lot of recap of the first film’s shock gags with sex and violence, raunchy jokes, and punchlines as the only selling point. But the wacky-looking cartoon characters and accidental food massacres and orgies quickly become repetitive.
For fans of the 2016 movie, the Amazon Prime Video series can be just a nostalgia trip that would most likely end in disappointment. Overall, Sausage Party: Foodtopia is watchable, with the only entertainment being slapstick comedy and adult punchlines.
Catch the sequel of the 2016 movie on Amazon Prime Video.
