Sausage Party
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: August 12, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 39 Critic Reviews
Positive:
29
Mixed:
9
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The New York TimesA.O. ScottAug 11, 2016
You will come for the kind of humor promised in the title and the well-earned R rating, but stay for the nuanced meditations on theology and faith. Read full review
100
MTV NewsAmy NicholsonAug 10, 2016
Sausage Party is ballsy and dumb and brilliant all in one bite. Read full review
91
HitfixDrew McWeenyAug 8, 2016
By making this look like the sort of film that studios think of when they think of animation, but subverting the very nature of those movies, Sausage Party is more than funny. It’s downright revolutionary. Read full review
83
ConsequenceMichael RoffmanAug 11, 2016
The middle school dialect takes a backseat to the ingenuity on hand. It’s quite clear that the masterminds behind Sausage Party really thought this one out, examining this world long enough to have the most fun in it. Read full review
80
EmpireNick de SemlyenSep 5, 2016
It sounded like the dumbest movie of all time, but it’s actually smart, subversive and packed with famous voices saying wonderfully unspeakable things. In fact, it’s a banger. Read full review
80
The GuardianJordan HoffmanAug 10, 2016
Seth Rogen’s naughty food cartoon Sausage Party is, like much of his best work, deceptive packaging. Read full review
80
New York Daily NewsEdward DouglasAug 10, 2016
There are a few points where Rogen and company go way too far, but even in those cases, you may find yourself trying hard not to laugh and failing miserably. Read full review
80
Screen DailyTim GriersonAug 10, 2016
Often, the randomness of the jokes is as sparkling as the execution, creating the sense that the filmmakers will try just about anything for a laugh — and the more shocking the better. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeMar 16, 2016
Foodstuffs, metaphysics and a heap of raunchy action add up to something surprisingly hilarious. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeTy BurrAug 29, 2016
All right-thinking minds will properly detest the movie. I have to admit I laughed my asparagus off. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzAug 11, 2016
If Mel Brooks went insane, he would make Sausage Party. Read full review
75
St. Louis Post-DispatchGabe HartwigAug 11, 2016
Sausage Party is cute and cheeky and harmless. But it is decidedly not for kids. Read full review
75
Rolling StonePeter TraversAug 11, 2016
You leave the f--ked-up funhouse of Sausage Party thinking: Did I see this movie or hallucinate it? I mean that as high praise. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniAug 11, 2016
A violent, sexy, crazy actioner about supermarket products that rebel against their human consumers, Sausage Party is one of the funniest and most deeply offensive movies of the year (it's obscenely funny), which lambastes America's most sacred of sacred cows: religion. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattAug 11, 2016
Conceived by the conjoined comedic minds of Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, and Evan Goldberg and baked (in more ways than one) for more than eight years, the movie looks like Pixar but plays like "Pineapple Express" unleashed among actual pineapples. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreAug 11, 2016
It’s demented, and it’s damned-near brilliant. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerAug 10, 2016
Rogen and Goldberg start with spoofery and work their way into something bolder and stranger; it’s as if playing in the Pixar sandbox, or a reasonable approximation thereof, can’t help but inspire creativity. Read full review
75
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallAug 10, 2016
Is it funny? Absolutely. Sausage Party also gets a bit exhausting, even running under 90 minutes. We're hearing essentially the same dirty jokes over and over, in a movie saved by its brilliantly filthy finale. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperAug 10, 2016
This is the raunchiest, filthiest, most ridiculous and most politically incorrect movie of the year. It’s also one of the funniest — and its own very twisted and warped way, it offers some legitimate if obvious insights about our insane world. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMichael OrdoñaAug 10, 2016
Sausage Party is definitely not for everyone. Its well-earned R rating guarantees that. But what might prove the often hilarious and startlingly intelligent film’s greatest bar to blockbuster status is the very thing that sets it apart: its ideas. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenAug 11, 2016
The film is not quite smart enough to overcome the clichés and stereotypes it acknowledges but can’t entirely dismantle. At the same time, it often isn’t quite outrageous enough, as if it should be more willing to be outright offensive. Read full review
70
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzAug 11, 2016
The comedy hits more than it misses; this is a really funny movie. And it’s thoughtful, in its @$*# way. Read full review
70
VarietyJoe LeydonMar 16, 2016
Sausage Party is something far short of Shavian in terms of sophisticated dialogue — really, there is just so much novelty value one can milk from repetitious fusillades of F-bombs launched by animated characters — but it is difficult to deny the hilarity quotient of a movie so exuberantly and unapologetically rude and crude. Read full review
67
The Film StageAug 10, 2016
Sausage Party is a mixed bag of comedy, but when it finally has the gusto to ratchet things up on a visual level, the surrealistic vulgarity is something to be appreciated, even if you may feel assaulted once the lights come up. Read full review
63
USA TodayBrian TruittAug 11, 2016
Packed with surprising depth as it utilizes complete lunacy and clever bites to cobble together something wholly different in the cartoon space, even though at times the wacky film does itself a disservice by aiming for shocks rather than smarts. Read full review
63
New York PostSara StewartAug 11, 2016
Seth Rogen’s raunchy Sausage Party contains occasional flashes of satirical brilliance. But in true stoner form, it also thinks a lot of stuff is funnier than it actually is. Read full review
63
The Seattle TimesBethany Jean ClementAug 11, 2016
The imagination in Sausage Party runs rampant, making for moments of the weirdest hilarity. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsAug 10, 2016
I laughed a lot in the first half, before the movie's repetitive jackhammer pacing, which isn't ideal for any kind of comedy, began working against its better instincts. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineKenji FujishimaAug 10, 2016
Though the filmmakers may not believe in a higher power, they still maintain a faith in raunchiness as an id-blasting form of liberation from rigid norms, spiritual, sexual, or otherwise. Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfAug 12, 2016
As with 1999’s deceptively deep South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut and, more recently, The Lego Movie, the script works hard to invest its scenario with an existential and political dimension, crudely but effectively expressed. Read full review
58
IndieWireDavid EhrlichAug 10, 2016
Unlike so many comedies, Sausage Party only gets funnier as it goes along — there are dozens of duffed jokes along the way...but the script mines its demented premise for its full potential, and the plot crescendos to an ending so good that you’re likely to forgive many of the dull moments that came before it. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesAug 17, 2016
Sausage Party glints of greatness, but this is half-cocked comedy at best. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyAug 11, 2016
The movie’s prime mover, Rogen, is a doge of stoner humor, and he shows incredible discipline in this film by saving the first weed joke for twenty minutes in. I commend him for that. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezAug 11, 2016
If watching cartoon characters spout four-letter words is your thing, this might well be the greatest movie ever made. Read full review
45
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeAug 11, 2016
There’s a goofy spree of a movie buried deep within Sausage Party, but it’s missing both the spree and the goofs. This comedy needed to be a lot smarter if it wanted to succeed at being this stupid. Read full review
42
The PlaylistCharlie SchmidlinMar 15, 2016
Its half-baked political ideas take away from the wholly satisfying and surreal Pixar riff it could have been. Read full review
40
The TelegraphRupert HawksleySep 1, 2016
The problem with Sausage Party is that, for all the silliness, it so desperately wants to be taken seriously. What should have been a shamelessly filthy stoner movie has been watered down with ill-judged, undergraduate musings on religion, philosophy and race. Read full review
40
ScreenCrushMike SampsonAug 8, 2016
It’s raunchy, rowdy and almost completely insane. Unfortunately, it’s just not very funny. Read full review
30
SalonAndrew O'HehirAug 10, 2016
I hated this movie; I wish I could unsee it and will it out of existence. But that’s not the same as thinking it’s worthless or corrupt or entirely inept. It’s more like a massively self-indulgent prank, inflicted on the world by some reasonably intelligent young men, which makes it the most bro-tastic project of all time. Mo’ bro than this, no es posible, amigos. Read full review
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