Yes, I’ve reviewed this film before. The great thing about maintaining a website this long is that someone can look back and see what I initially wrote about Sausage Party. with the release of the new Amazon series Sausage Party: Foodtopia, I took the advantage of Sausage party being on Netflix, with audio description, to watch and see how the audio description holds up and compares. Also, is this film still funny?

I do want to type this part out. It’s important. This film stars the vocal talents of: Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Edward Norton, Salma Hayek, James Franco, Bill Hader, Anders Holm, Iris Apatow, Nick Kroll, David Krumholtz, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, and Paul Rudd. Not everyone survives, but the TV series was dramatically cut back to just Rogen, Wiig, Cera, and Norton, with two cast additions in Will Forte and Sam Richardson. It’s not exactly the most promising turn over rate. Also, notably, the second time Bill Hader hasn’t reprised an animated character this year, though his casting was inappropriate anyway.

I believe this is really my third way though, and it is getting less funny overall. Some of it works, but the gimmick wears on you. It was a great gag for one time through, but every other successive viewing makes me want to lower the grade. Yes, food sex is still surprising, though the series goes much further.

Overall, I still enjoy the opening number, there’s humor here, and it still had a great concept. But, what about the audio description?

What I Look For In The Audio Description: Almost every character is food, or an inanimate object of some kind, so we have to get those descriptions in specifically. You can’t hide the food sex either. Go all in. It’s the most boundary pushing thing in the film. Also, the moments of joy when the food thinks they are going to a happy place, plus the sheer terror of realizing they are all getting eaten. Luckily, costumes, and things like hairstyle and race/ethnicity are non-existent, but there are quite a few sight gags, and this film really goes for broke on adult humor.

What It Does: Mostly, i agree with the choices. I remember visually, and there’s one little hang up I have, and that is when they avoid calling the douche a douche or feminine hygiene product. His initial description has more to do with him being bell shaped, and later on he is referred to as “douche” as his character name. I mean, I guess? But, I figured out what he was when i could see. It wasn’t this big surprise. The surprise is that he turns into a villain, not that he finds out what he is used for (like that dying used condom). When that was dodged, i feared for the food sex scenes, but they were done well enough. Most of the food is described as what it is, but not quite all the main characters.

Final Thoughts: It isn’t the easiest film to describe, with a lot of talking, and figuring out how to describe food having sex, but this is a pretty good attempt at doing something a bit above the bare minimum. Could it have gone further? Sure. But, good enough.

Final Grade: B+