What if food had feelings?
March 15, 2016 2:39 PM Subscribe
Sausage Party, the first R-rated CG animated movie (SLYT, NSFW)
Leave it to Hollywood to anthropomorphize food before treating Native Americans like human beings.
posted by abandonedwig at 2:49 PM on March 15, 2016 [70 favorites]
posted by abandonedwig at 2:49 PM on March 15, 2016 [70 favorites]
This made me think of "Foodfight!". Thanks for nothing.
posted by mazola at 2:49 PM on March 15, 2016 [15 favorites]
posted by mazola at 2:49 PM on March 15, 2016 [15 favorites]
You do not want to know what I thought was going to happen to the hotdog dude at first. I am so sick.
posted by Splunge at 2:51 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by Splunge at 2:51 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
The trailer stopped being funny after about two-thirds of the way through...
posted by My Dad at 2:58 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by My Dad at 2:58 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
At this point I would love it if that WHOLE group of comedians/actors/producers were forced to never work with each other. Seth Rogan, Danny McBride, Michael Cera, Jonah Hill, Evan Goldberg, they've created this little niche of such low effort comedy that reminds me of Adam Sandler and his posse. (Also let's fire James Franco into the sun). I watched that trailer and I wasn't impressed by anything of it. The animation, the acting, the "jokes." Hopefully there'll be another R rated CG movie that actually looks like someone put effort into it.
posted by Neronomius at 3:00 PM on March 15, 2016 [24 favorites]
posted by Neronomius at 3:00 PM on March 15, 2016 [24 favorites]
A work in progress showing got a very warm reception at SXSW (Cartoon Brew, Variety review, THR review [all spoilers]), so this might actually have legs. I'm not super-enthusiastic about the content, but because the American feature animation business is so hidebound anything remotely different is welcome.
posted by Small Dollar at 3:02 PM on March 15, 2016
posted by Small Dollar at 3:02 PM on March 15, 2016
OK, I enjoyed this little SNL segment. Hope they don't turn it into a feature length movie tho.
posted by fleetmouse at 3:02 PM on March 15, 2016 [8 favorites]
posted by fleetmouse at 3:02 PM on March 15, 2016 [8 favorites]
It's like this movie was made for me.
posted by cruelfood at 3:07 PM on March 15, 2016 [11 favorites]
posted by cruelfood at 3:07 PM on March 15, 2016 [11 favorites]
Ok, the hot dog and bun made me think of this Ripping Friends segment by John K., which is way more disturbing but was on Saturday Mornings.... although they did pixelate the merging of dog and bun at the end, which just made it even more disturbing.
I bet they do the same gag in this movie.
posted by Huck500 at 3:07 PM on March 15, 2016 [3 favorites]
I bet they do the same gag in this movie.
posted by Huck500 at 3:07 PM on March 15, 2016 [3 favorites]
I will never tire of seeing hotdogs curse.
posted by mittens at 3:09 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by mittens at 3:09 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
Wtf is this third-rate tumblr-thieving bullshit? The premise is that food is sentient and has mouths and hands and shit but it doesn't know where it comes from or that animals eat things? This is like a low-effort three-strip comic turned into a whole fucking movie. How are we supposed to identify with or feel the horror of the food being eaten when it seems, and I can't believe this sentence is being written, as though the food is far too naive?
When something is really funny, it doesn't have to make sense. If you want to evoke terror (even a very shallow sort, or occasional moment of it) then things have to make sense. Ugh this is such absolute garbage.
posted by clockzero at 3:10 PM on March 15, 2016 [15 favorites]
When something is really funny, it doesn't have to make sense. If you want to evoke terror (even a very shallow sort, or occasional moment of it) then things have to make sense. Ugh this is such absolute garbage.
posted by clockzero at 3:10 PM on March 15, 2016 [15 favorites]
I don't think they'll be able to improve beyond the trailer.
The trailer is:
Short, easy to watch and doesn't drag on.
Has a twist, (from childrens movie into a food-slasher flick)
Has a romance.
You already know the protagonists escape, while losing members of their party, so the plot can be considered resolved.
The characters personalities are clear, there's no need to expose them any further (and I doubt the movie will)
posted by FallowKing at 3:17 PM on March 15, 2016 [7 favorites]
The trailer is:
Short, easy to watch and doesn't drag on.
Has a twist, (from childrens movie into a food-slasher flick)
Has a romance.
You already know the protagonists escape, while losing members of their party, so the plot can be considered resolved.
The characters personalities are clear, there's no need to expose them any further (and I doubt the movie will)
posted by FallowKing at 3:17 PM on March 15, 2016 [7 favorites]
I laughed. Wouldn't see it in a theater, but I could see myself watching it at home, appropriately primed.
posted by Roger Dodger at 3:18 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by Roger Dodger at 3:18 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
It seems like they say 'fuck' a lot--like the writing, in places, is depending on it being REALLY funny that cartoon food characters are saying 'fuck'. I don't know, I would like this to be watchable, but the problem with dumb humor is that sometimes it's really dumb.
posted by Sing Or Swim at 3:21 PM on March 15, 2016 [8 favorites]
posted by Sing Or Swim at 3:21 PM on March 15, 2016 [8 favorites]
Apparently the foods are not naive as much as purposely deceived about the truth. Trailers don't show everything, and the reviews seem to suggest this is deeper than it first appears.
posted by Small Dollar at 3:24 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Small Dollar at 3:24 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
Well, there's no possible way it could be any shallower...
posted by Greg_Ace at 3:29 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Greg_Ace at 3:29 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
This premise actually feels really weird to me. It’s funny enough, but what is the movie’s conclusion going to be, when all of human nutrition depends on what is a morally evil action in this universe? All the food is liberated and a jolly montage of humanity starving to death? Hollywood doesn't have the stones.
posted by little onion at 3:34 PM on March 15, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by little onion at 3:34 PM on March 15, 2016 [3 favorites]
It's a horror movie disguised as a comedy. Everything is murder in their universe, and everyone in it is created by and sustained by murder. Even the innocent carrots were pulled from the ground and mutilated when they were born!
posted by Kevin Street at 3:40 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by Kevin Street at 3:40 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
So like our universe then?
posted by MCMikeNamara at 3:41 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by MCMikeNamara at 3:41 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
Exactly the same, except this movie lets us hear their little screams.
posted by Kevin Street at 3:41 PM on March 15, 2016 [6 favorites]
posted by Kevin Street at 3:41 PM on March 15, 2016 [6 favorites]
All the food is liberated and a jolly montage of humanity starving to death?
Or: The food ends up being more human than humans and thus we have new humans who will treat the previous humans as simple human-shaped foodstuffs with no moral concerns. Mmm... human...
posted by sapagan at 3:52 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
Or: The food ends up being more human than humans and thus we have new humans who will treat the previous humans as simple human-shaped foodstuffs with no moral concerns. Mmm... human...
posted by sapagan at 3:52 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
You do not want to know what I thought was going to happen to the hotdog dude at first. I am so sick.
It's cool--just in case anyone didn't get the joke, they went out of their way to make the bun extra-vulval. And, per Huck500's link above, someone already did the joke.
posted by Halloween Jack at 3:53 PM on March 15, 2016
It's cool--just in case anyone didn't get the joke, they went out of their way to make the bun extra-vulval. And, per Huck500's link above, someone already did the joke.
posted by Halloween Jack at 3:53 PM on March 15, 2016
It turns out this is just viral marketing for Soylent.
posted by mittens at 3:57 PM on March 15, 2016
posted by mittens at 3:57 PM on March 15, 2016
I left a comment that seems to have been deleted. "So when you guys got hacked, the terrorists UPLOADED this to your servers, right?"
posted by turbid dahlia at 3:59 PM on March 15, 2016 [15 favorites]
posted by turbid dahlia at 3:59 PM on March 15, 2016 [15 favorites]
Whatevs. I think it looks hilarious. Looking forward to seeing the whole thing.
posted by dnash at 4:07 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by dnash at 4:07 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
I left a comment that seems to have been deleted.
Nope, nothing deleted.
posted by cortex at 4:09 PM on March 15, 2016
Nope, nothing deleted.
posted by cortex at 4:09 PM on March 15, 2016
(Sorry cortex, I meant on the Sony Youtube page.)
posted by turbid dahlia at 4:09 PM on March 15, 2016
posted by turbid dahlia at 4:09 PM on March 15, 2016
Considering what hot dogs are made of, I find it hard to believe they aren't fully aware of their fate.
posted by Thorzdad at 4:19 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Thorzdad at 4:19 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
You know when you can tell a movie will blow because it's coasting on bad jokes 1/4 through the trailer?
posted by mccarty.tim at 4:23 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by mccarty.tim at 4:23 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
Apparently the foods are not naive as much as purposely deceived about the truth.
That is so fucking dumb. It's a fairy-tale for stoners: the dramatic instincts of the world's dullest conspiracy theorist married to the narrative art of middle school. Granted, a lot of what Seth Rogen et al do is intended to be watched while blazed to hell, but this is dumb in entirely new ways. Which I guess is all that a script from that crowd needs to be, to get made at this point.
posted by clockzero at 4:23 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
That is so fucking dumb. It's a fairy-tale for stoners: the dramatic instincts of the world's dullest conspiracy theorist married to the narrative art of middle school. Granted, a lot of what Seth Rogen et al do is intended to be watched while blazed to hell, but this is dumb in entirely new ways. Which I guess is all that a script from that crowd needs to be, to get made at this point.
posted by clockzero at 4:23 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
As far as funny and cursing goes, this has nothing on my Nature/Cookery show, which would be massive if Attenborough stopped being such a dick about it and just got on board.
posted by Elmore at 4:24 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Elmore at 4:24 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
You want weird R-rated food stuff, go read Team Society League.
posted by komara at 4:31 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by komara at 4:31 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
It's not good, but it's not actually lower-effort than a lot of computer animated movies marketed to children. It might even be better than some of them!
posted by vibratory manner of working at 4:44 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by vibratory manner of working at 4:44 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
Nononononononono..not ok.
Its not ok to eat things that can talk!
except, perhaps, the rude...
posted by The Legit Republic of Blanketsburg at 4:48 PM on March 15, 2016
Its not ok to eat things that can talk!
except, perhaps, the rude...
posted by The Legit Republic of Blanketsburg at 4:48 PM on March 15, 2016
Heh. That was pretty fun as a YouTube short. I'm not sure that it has enough jokes/plot/etc. to hold up to a whole film, but I guess I'll see what reviews say once it comes out.
posted by JiBB at 4:50 PM on March 15, 2016
posted by JiBB at 4:50 PM on March 15, 2016
Eh, I'll wait for the sequel.
posted by the uncomplicated soups of my childhood at 4:54 PM on March 15, 2016
posted by the uncomplicated soups of my childhood at 4:54 PM on March 15, 2016
Exactly the same, except this movie lets us hear their little screams.
These are the cries of the carrots.
posted by offalark at 4:56 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
These are the cries of the carrots.
posted by offalark at 4:56 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
My first thought after seeing the trailer was, "Is R-rated animation ever any good?"
So I looked it up, and forgot just how many great R-rated animated films there are.
If this movie's big selling point is its rating, then yeah, I have my doubts.
posted by subliminable at 4:57 PM on March 15, 2016 [3 favorites]
So I looked it up, and forgot just how many great R-rated animated films there are.
If this movie's big selling point is its rating, then yeah, I have my doubts.
posted by subliminable at 4:57 PM on March 15, 2016 [3 favorites]
The anthropomorphic hotdog bun as a sexy babe is a thing has been done before... tho the Banana/Hot Dog Bun relationship was probably a little too subtle, so they went straight to sausage. Think on that, a moment, not only did they rip off a talking hotdog bun as a symbol of femininity, they fucked it up by going way too heavy handed with it and removing subtext.
posted by Slap*Happy at 4:59 PM on March 15, 2016
posted by Slap*Happy at 4:59 PM on March 15, 2016
The day I'm too jaded to smile at a hot dog smoking a spliff is the day I go home and stay there.
posted by dr_dank at 5:14 PM on March 15, 2016
posted by dr_dank at 5:14 PM on March 15, 2016
the first R-rated CG animated movie
Cloudy with a Chance of Balls?
posted by oulipian at 5:14 PM on March 15, 2016 [4 favorites]
Cloudy with a Chance of Balls?
posted by oulipian at 5:14 PM on March 15, 2016 [4 favorites]
The MeFi post finally nudged me to check out the trailer, and for the most part, it was pretty funny. I really, really hate the title, though.
posted by Rev. Syung Myung Me at 5:29 PM on March 15, 2016
posted by Rev. Syung Myung Me at 5:29 PM on March 15, 2016
I don't know quite how you define a 'CG' animation, but Waltz with Bashir would have been impossible to make without computer animation.
Basic journalistic rule: any publicity about"World's first X" is almost certainly wrong, for any value of X.
posted by Devonian at 5:29 PM on March 15, 2016 [4 favorites]
Basic journalistic rule: any publicity about"World's first X" is almost certainly wrong, for any value of X.
posted by Devonian at 5:29 PM on March 15, 2016 [4 favorites]
First Adult Movie That Looks Like A Dreamworks Animation Production
posted by Rev. Syung Myung Me at 5:30 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Rev. Syung Myung Me at 5:30 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
The digital world has done some amazing things. CGI in particular is a new art form with seemingly limitless potential. Which is why it saddens me to see it used to promote the fiction that "baby carrots" are actually baby carrots.
posted by TedW at 5:31 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by TedW at 5:31 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
(or, yeah, Waking Life, too)
posted by Rev. Syung Myung Me at 5:31 PM on March 15, 2016
posted by Rev. Syung Myung Me at 5:31 PM on March 15, 2016
Let's all go out to the lobby...
posted by hal9k at 6:11 PM on March 15, 2016 [5 favorites]
posted by hal9k at 6:11 PM on March 15, 2016 [5 favorites]
Whatevs. I think it looks hilarious. Looking forward to seeing the whole thing.
It's called a doughnut.
posted by hal9k at 6:14 PM on March 15, 2016 [6 favorites]
It's called a doughnut.
posted by hal9k at 6:14 PM on March 15, 2016 [6 favorites]
Well, there's no possible way it could be any shallower...
Well, they had to make some concessions
posted by hal9k at 6:15 PM on March 15, 2016 [4 favorites]
Well, they had to make some concessions
posted by hal9k at 6:15 PM on March 15, 2016 [4 favorites]
I am stoned right now. I laughed at the start of the trailer. I stopped laughing midway through when it brought in the Wise Injun With The Peace Pipe. Yay stereotypes! Well done, Sony. Well done.
posted by egypturnash at 6:15 PM on March 15, 2016 [7 favorites]
posted by egypturnash at 6:15 PM on March 15, 2016 [7 favorites]
Metafilter: I am stoned right now.
posted by Cookiebastard at 6:23 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by Cookiebastard at 6:23 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
Saying "Fuck" is not a substitute for a joke. It is not a punchline. It loses its novelty after the first use.
posted by FallowKing at 6:25 PM on March 15, 2016 [6 favorites]
posted by FallowKing at 6:25 PM on March 15, 2016 [6 favorites]
Check out them taters.
posted by Nanukthedog at 6:37 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Nanukthedog at 6:37 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
So does that mean all the people with Zootopia fan characters are gonna make Sausage fan characters next? WIll the Zootopia OCs eat the sausage OCs?
posted by ShawnStruck at 6:38 PM on March 15, 2016
posted by ShawnStruck at 6:38 PM on March 15, 2016
The anthropomorphic hotdog bun as a sexy babe
I'm freaked out by how the hot dog bun in the trailer is basically a talking vulva. All that's missing is a clittoral nose. I mean hot dogs as penises, sure, I get that. But buns as vulvae? Is that a thing?
posted by Nelson at 6:39 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
I'm freaked out by how the hot dog bun in the trailer is basically a talking vulva. All that's missing is a clittoral nose. I mean hot dogs as penises, sure, I get that. But buns as vulvae? Is that a thing?
posted by Nelson at 6:39 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
I believe the standard metaphor is hot dog and donut
posted by Rev. Syung Myung Me at 6:42 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Rev. Syung Myung Me at 6:42 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
That is so fucking dumb. It's a fairy-tale for stoners: the dramatic instincts of the world's dullest conspiracy theorist married to the narrative art of middle school.
See I think the premise is funny. The execution not so much so far.
posted by atoxyl at 6:43 PM on March 15, 2016
See I think the premise is funny. The execution not so much so far.
posted by atoxyl at 6:43 PM on March 15, 2016
It's not the worst thing I've ever seen, but watching it, I just thought "so much money went into making this." It's one thing to gather all your famous friends and make a dumb movie. It's another thing when you involve a whole staff of people to animate it for you.
Not my thing anyway, but the jokes seemed more than obvious. I kept waiting for something to shock me. Mostly, it seemed like a mediocre kids' movie with more swearing. Maybe that's the punchline?
posted by darksong at 6:43 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
Not my thing anyway, but the jokes seemed more than obvious. I kept waiting for something to shock me. Mostly, it seemed like a mediocre kids' movie with more swearing. Maybe that's the punchline?
posted by darksong at 6:43 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
Fucking Monsanto, forcing all these untested Francofoods on us...
posted by atoxyl at 6:45 PM on March 15, 2016 [7 favorites]
posted by atoxyl at 6:45 PM on March 15, 2016 [7 favorites]
This looks dumb as shit, it will probably make money and spawn sequels, and I will never see it. Life is too short already.
posted by emjaybee at 6:52 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by emjaybee at 6:52 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
Watching that piece of shit, all I could think of was that I'd actually enjoy this better if it consisted of 90 minutes of sentient food being murdered in increasingly elaborate culinary ways--kind Of Saw meets Iron Chef.
posted by Chrischris at 7:12 PM on March 15, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by Chrischris at 7:12 PM on March 15, 2016 [4 favorites]
I have some high brow tastes and I'm going to get stoned af and watch this dumb thing and probably going to love it.
The wise Indian trope can die a fiery death though please.
posted by wemayfreeze at 7:29 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
The wise Indian trope can die a fiery death though please.
posted by wemayfreeze at 7:29 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
I write this comment before viewing the trailer, full of anticipation at the prospect of a stimulating foray into the animated arts in this, the 21st century.
...
Me no rit gud now dumr dumr so dumr fuk fuk
posted by the sobsister at 7:53 PM on March 15, 2016 [4 favorites]
...
Me no rit gud now dumr dumr so dumr fuk fuk
posted by the sobsister at 7:53 PM on March 15, 2016 [4 favorites]
Thanks, Trump.
posted by turbid dahlia at 8:02 PM on March 15, 2016
posted by turbid dahlia at 8:02 PM on March 15, 2016
What if Producers had talent?
posted by AGameOfMoans at 8:31 PM on March 15, 2016
posted by AGameOfMoans at 8:31 PM on March 15, 2016
Yeah, "baby carrots" are just polished chunks of broken bigger carrots.
Think about it, man...
posted by gottabefunky at 8:47 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
Think about it, man...
posted by gottabefunky at 8:47 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
...adult baby carrots?
posted by Rev. Syung Myung Me at 10:21 PM on March 15, 2016
posted by Rev. Syung Myung Me at 10:21 PM on March 15, 2016
TedW: "promote the fiction that "baby carrots" are actually baby carrots."
"Baby carrots" are sometimes baby carrots (and are at least the smaller, sweeter end of a large carrot). "Baby cut carrots" are the ass-ends of bigger carrots - you know, the bit that is greenish and sour and you won't normally eat because it's tough and dry? That's what you are paying a premium for: Polished carrot asses. The market for "baby carrots" I understand. Baby carrots are sweet and crisp. The "baby cut carrots" thing pisses me off. They have to pack them in water so you can't see how dry and ugly they really are once you've skinned the poor things.
Also, news flash: Actual carrots are like half the price per pound as the processed "baby cut" ones, and you get the whole carrot, not just the ass end. The ones with green tops still attached? Even better.
OK. Back to complaining about the movie now.
posted by caution live frogs at 10:44 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
"Baby carrots" are sometimes baby carrots (and are at least the smaller, sweeter end of a large carrot). "Baby cut carrots" are the ass-ends of bigger carrots - you know, the bit that is greenish and sour and you won't normally eat because it's tough and dry? That's what you are paying a premium for: Polished carrot asses. The market for "baby carrots" I understand. Baby carrots are sweet and crisp. The "baby cut carrots" thing pisses me off. They have to pack them in water so you can't see how dry and ugly they really are once you've skinned the poor things.
Also, news flash: Actual carrots are like half the price per pound as the processed "baby cut" ones, and you get the whole carrot, not just the ass end. The ones with green tops still attached? Even better.
OK. Back to complaining about the movie now.
posted by caution live frogs at 10:44 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
This looks like something that would be direct to on-demand on some b-rate service, like that new yahoo one.
Everything about it is B rate.
And what the fuck, the wise indian thing would have been like an anachronism in the 90s. That's like some like, 50s-60s warner bros shit. What?
And understand i'm coming at this liking stupid stuff. I like the dumbest meme videos, the more asinine the better. But this is just... dry and boring and low effort? I expected it to be stupid and obtuse, not stupid and mundane. I expected the twist to be completely like adult swim or even don hertzfeldt.
Like, i thought the food would remain sentient inside people and then come out as shit and kill them for revenge, or something. Or it would turn in some chestburster horror movie. Or the food would start assaulting people.
What if the food is actual people who died being reincarnated and then eaten by their friends.
That kind of thing.
I still had hope when they reversed the "objects cant move with people looking at them" toy story trope, but nope.
posted by emptythought at 10:57 PM on March 15, 2016 [4 favorites]
Everything about it is B rate.
And what the fuck, the wise indian thing would have been like an anachronism in the 90s. That's like some like, 50s-60s warner bros shit. What?
And understand i'm coming at this liking stupid stuff. I like the dumbest meme videos, the more asinine the better. But this is just... dry and boring and low effort? I expected it to be stupid and obtuse, not stupid and mundane. I expected the twist to be completely like adult swim or even don hertzfeldt.
Like, i thought the food would remain sentient inside people and then come out as shit and kill them for revenge, or something. Or it would turn in some chestburster horror movie. Or the food would start assaulting people.
What if the food is actual people who died being reincarnated and then eaten by their friends.
That kind of thing.
I still had hope when they reversed the "objects cant move with people looking at them" toy story trope, but nope.
posted by emptythought at 10:57 PM on March 15, 2016 [4 favorites]
How are we supposed to identify with or feel the horror of the food being eaten when it seems, and I can't believe this sentence is being written, as though the food is far too naive?
That's mostly how I feel about Republican voters.
posted by flabdablet at 11:55 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
That's mostly how I feel about Republican voters.
posted by flabdablet at 11:55 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
Saying "Fuck" is not a substitute for a joke. It is not a punchline. It loses its novelty after the first use.
But use it ~150 times and it becomes a plot device.
posted by hippybear at 1:01 AM on March 16, 2016 [1 favorite]
But use it ~150 times and it becomes a plot device.
posted by hippybear at 1:01 AM on March 16, 2016 [1 favorite]
This premise actually feels really weird to me. It’s funny enough, but what is the movie’s conclusion going to be, when all of human nutrition depends on what is a morally evil action in this universe? All the food is liberated and a jolly montage of humanity starving to death? Hollywood doesn't have the stones.
posted by little onion
I had presumed that they are actually making the opposite point. That vegetarianism / veganism is already based on an absurd anthropomorphism of animals. That of course we eat food. That the cows, sheep etc that vegetarians refuse to eat only exist for the purpose of eating them. That's why its funny no?... because it is so absurd.
posted by mary8nne at 2:52 AM on March 16, 2016
posted by little onion
I had presumed that they are actually making the opposite point. That vegetarianism / veganism is already based on an absurd anthropomorphism of animals. That of course we eat food. That the cows, sheep etc that vegetarians refuse to eat only exist for the purpose of eating them. That's why its funny no?... because it is so absurd.
posted by mary8nne at 2:52 AM on March 16, 2016
I'm pretty sure the concept is "man, wouldn't it be crazy if food was alive" and the moral will be "the main characters start to walk off into the sunset, then get eaten by a dog suddenly."
The fact that the extra eyes on the broad Irish potato stereotype didn't get gruesomely popped off seems to be missing a trick.
posted by lucidium at 4:39 AM on March 16, 2016 [2 favorites]
The fact that the extra eyes on the broad Irish potato stereotype didn't get gruesomely popped off seems to be missing a trick.
posted by lucidium at 4:39 AM on March 16, 2016 [2 favorites]
Wow man, imagine that - what if our food was actually alive and had feelings...whoa. Wow, that's some crazy shit.
I'm sure glad stuff in grocery stores doesn't come from living things that don't want to be eaten. That'd be freaky and really play on my emotions.
posted by Muddler at 4:51 AM on March 16, 2016 [5 favorites]
I'm sure glad stuff in grocery stores doesn't come from living things that don't want to be eaten. That'd be freaky and really play on my emotions.
posted by Muddler at 4:51 AM on March 16, 2016 [5 favorites]
I wouldn't be surprised if Robot Chicken already did most of the jokes in the movie, 20 seconds at a time.
Probably worth seeing for the cast, and the Million Moms protesting they took their kids to watch the movie thinking it was stealth Disney movie, and they had to leave the theater in disgust. All five of them.
posted by lmfsilva at 5:12 AM on March 16, 2016
Probably worth seeing for the cast, and the Million Moms protesting they took their kids to watch the movie thinking it was stealth Disney movie, and they had to leave the theater in disgust. All five of them.
posted by lmfsilva at 5:12 AM on March 16, 2016
The fucking scripts on fucking wikileaks
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 5:44 AM on March 16, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 5:44 AM on March 16, 2016 [1 favorite]
Uncle Floyd should sue.
posted by whuppy at 5:55 AM on March 16, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by whuppy at 5:55 AM on March 16, 2016 [1 favorite]
The fucking scripts on fucking wikileaks
The Indian chief's name is Firewater
The woman's name is Camille Toh.
There's a talking Douche...sigh.
and the gorcery store has a whole aisle dedicated to mexican food..
posted by FallowKing at 6:29 AM on March 16, 2016 [2 favorites]
The Indian chief's name is Firewater
The woman's name is Camille Toh.
There's a talking Douche...sigh.
and the gorcery store has a whole aisle dedicated to mexican food..
posted by FallowKing at 6:29 AM on March 16, 2016 [2 favorites]
... the hot dog and bun made me think of this Ripping Friends segment by John K. ...
I feel for the helpless weiners left out in the cold ...
posted by milnews.ca at 6:44 AM on March 16, 2016
I feel for the helpless weiners left out in the cold ...
posted by milnews.ca at 6:44 AM on March 16, 2016
Oh man, WikiLeaks doing the important work to keep the world safe and free. Page 74:
posted by Nelson at 7:18 AM on March 16, 2016 [2 favorites]
A douche just finger fucked my mouth with a rat's butt hole juice.The next scene is titled "The Orgy". It takes place in the "international aisle" and involves a bagel and lavash. I can't tell if the sex direction on page 77 is a script or a parody of a script. All that's missing is The Aristocrats.
posted by Nelson at 7:18 AM on March 16, 2016 [2 favorites]
Yeah, if I ever watch this, it will be at home with the only cost being the time I dedicated to watching it when I could be doing something else. I also guarantee there will be a number of parents who see something animated and just drop their children in front of it, and then, if lucky, recoil in horror within the first ten minutes and turn it off - but not before their little ones start spouting off words to make a sailor blush.
posted by Atreides at 7:34 AM on March 16, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Atreides at 7:34 AM on March 16, 2016 [1 favorite]
We already have a thing with conscious food, and it was better than this: an anime called Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita (Humanity Has Declined).
posted by closetphilosopher at 7:43 AM on March 16, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by closetphilosopher at 7:43 AM on March 16, 2016 [2 favorites]
This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a wiener.
posted by Cookiebastard at 8:10 AM on March 16, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by Cookiebastard at 8:10 AM on March 16, 2016 [3 favorites]
Give me a few days and I'll find a way to blame Judd Apatow for this.
posted by Flexagon at 8:20 AM on March 16, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Flexagon at 8:20 AM on March 16, 2016 [1 favorite]
I'm sure glad stuff in grocery stores doesn't come from living things that don't want to be eaten. That'd be freaky and really play on my emotions.
How did that not come up when Alan Smithee or whoever started to write this?
posted by Monochrome at 9:35 AM on March 16, 2016
How did that not come up when Alan Smithee or whoever started to write this?
posted by Monochrome at 9:35 AM on March 16, 2016
Wow, after a cursory look through the script, this is just brimming with extra-lazy stereotyping, ethnic and otherwise. How did this movie get made.
posted by clockzero at 10:03 AM on March 16, 2016
posted by clockzero at 10:03 AM on March 16, 2016
Perhaps it is a movie for the Donald Trump generation.
posted by Nelson at 10:30 AM on March 16, 2016
posted by Nelson at 10:30 AM on March 16, 2016
Holy crap I just read that leaked script. It is so full of ethnic "humor".
The worst part of this thing, for me, is that I'm a former animator. I am imagining the hundreds of people who are paying the bills by working on this thing. Some of them probably poured a lot of themselves into a performance of, I don't know, the scene where the moldy pita bread gives a chunk of himself to his bagel boyfriend to keep forever, or something. Because that is what you do to keep sane, when your lifelong dream of Being An Animator! has come down to working on a feature film about broad ethnic caricatures saying "fuck" a lot. This is how you put your kids through college.
Those of you who watch this thing, please sit through the credits, and spare a few thoughts for those people.
posted by egypturnash at 11:51 AM on March 16, 2016 [4 favorites]
The worst part of this thing, for me, is that I'm a former animator. I am imagining the hundreds of people who are paying the bills by working on this thing. Some of them probably poured a lot of themselves into a performance of, I don't know, the scene where the moldy pita bread gives a chunk of himself to his bagel boyfriend to keep forever, or something. Because that is what you do to keep sane, when your lifelong dream of Being An Animator! has come down to working on a feature film about broad ethnic caricatures saying "fuck" a lot. This is how you put your kids through college.
Those of you who watch this thing, please sit through the credits, and spare a few thoughts for those people.
posted by egypturnash at 11:51 AM on March 16, 2016 [4 favorites]
"Yeah well you see the potato is Irish and that's really funny right because they eat potatoes in Ireland and there was that time there wasn't any potatoes and it was called the potato famine and millions of people died so that's pretty funny right that's a clever joke that'll make people laugh it's ironic you see so it's funny it's clever."
posted by dng at 6:46 PM on March 16, 2016
posted by dng at 6:46 PM on March 16, 2016
Welllllll.
So has anybody seen any of the Huevos properties from Mexico? Because this is the plot of their first movie, but with eggs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_I54aXqe9k
That was a terrible, low effort outing. And this looks like a terrible, low effort outing.
posted by TheProfessor at 7:10 PM on March 16, 2016
So has anybody seen any of the Huevos properties from Mexico? Because this is the plot of their first movie, but with eggs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_I54aXqe9k
That was a terrible, low effort outing. And this looks like a terrible, low effort outing.
posted by TheProfessor at 7:10 PM on March 16, 2016
Those of you who watch this thing, please sit through the credits, and spare a few thoughts for those people.
Does this fall into the contractors argument of Return of the Jedi? Did these people recognize the risk of working on the project and knew what would come or were they completely unaware that a force for good was somewhere out there with a countdown clock to attacking the work site and blowing it up?
posted by Atreides at 9:54 AM on March 17, 2016
Does this fall into the contractors argument of Return of the Jedi? Did these people recognize the risk of working on the project and knew what would come or were they completely unaware that a force for good was somewhere out there with a countdown clock to attacking the work site and blowing it up?
posted by Atreides at 9:54 AM on March 17, 2016
So I've been reading the linked script and it's lazy garbage with a few flashes of what could have been brilliance. It feels like a bunch of stoners saw Toy Story and said, "What if instead of toys it was food?" and outlined the story that weekend.
Here's a few bits and pieces so far that have stuck out to me:
It's already been mentioned that there's a Jewish bagel and a Palestinian lavash. Here's a joke that'd feel super at home in 2004.
A stereotypical Mexican character in the Mexican food aisle that's super stereotypically impoverished beats up on the female lead (with script note that says maybe they should tone the violence down.)
This joke is funny because Firewater is a Native American character. Get it?!
This movie, based on the script from Wikileaks, is so bad I'm not even mad, I'm impressed. It's like they said to themselves, "What would Pixar do in this situation? Okay, do the opposite of that."
I haven't made it to the food orgy yet. I hope I'm strong enough.
posted by gc at 8:39 AM on March 18, 2016
Here's a few bits and pieces so far that have stuck out to me:
It's already been mentioned that there's a Jewish bagel and a Palestinian lavash. Here's a joke that'd feel super at home in 2004.
A stereotypical Mexican character in the Mexican food aisle that's super stereotypically impoverished beats up on the female lead (with script note that says maybe they should tone the violence down.)
This joke is funny because Firewater is a Native American character. Get it?!
This movie, based on the script from Wikileaks, is so bad I'm not even mad, I'm impressed. It's like they said to themselves, "What would Pixar do in this situation? Okay, do the opposite of that."
I haven't made it to the food orgy yet. I hope I'm strong enough.
posted by gc at 8:39 AM on March 18, 2016
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