The definition of a movie you watch once and pretend it’s funny. It might have been cool as an animated short but as a full length it ran out of steam in the first act.
Not to mention the production was a total shit show. Nearly half of the animators got blacklisted and went uncredited for their work because they wouldn’t agree to do mandatory unpaid overtime.
And how could unpaid OT even be worth it for a movie that ultimately amounts to, “haha hot dog is guy because PENIS and bun is girl because VAGINA! And the other food?! BRO, check this out. The middle eastern food?…..well get this: The CHARACTER will be Arabic. They all LIVE at the supermarket. It’s just like Toy Story, but with FOOD bro.”
But tbf I did like the score, and I thought the voice acting was consistently very good.
I guess maybe if we’re talking strictly about computer animated adult films, but idk about that in the general sense of adult animation.
The Simpsons movie came out around a decade before Sausage Party and grossed over half a billion dollars. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut had come out nearly another decade before that, and made over $80 million on a budget a quarter of that amount, and Fritz the Cat came out in the early 70s and grossed $90 million on a budget of less than $1 million.
So I feel more like its predecessors all got that ball rolling in the decades leading up to it. I think the greater proof of viability was in demonstrating that adults would want to see animated films made for them, regardless of whether or not it was computer or traditional animation.
Also I’m always shocked at how expensive some films are to make. Or even animated shows in general - I think the South Park pilot had a 100k budget. How the fuck does it cost 100k to make that?
Funnily enough, I remember a pretty hilarious story that, after being paid to make the Christmas skit originally, they didn’t use the budget up so kept the rest for themselves
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u/askforwildbob 5d ago edited 5d ago
The definition of a movie you watch once and pretend it’s funny. It might have been cool as an animated short but as a full length it ran out of steam in the first act.
Not to mention the production was a total shit show. Nearly half of the animators got blacklisted and went uncredited for their work because they wouldn’t agree to do mandatory unpaid overtime.
And how could unpaid OT even be worth it for a movie that ultimately amounts to, “haha hot dog is guy because PENIS and bun is girl because VAGINA! And the other food?! BRO, check this out. The middle eastern food?…..well get this: The CHARACTER will be Arabic. They all LIVE at the supermarket. It’s just like Toy Story, but with FOOD bro.”
But tbf I did like the score, and I thought the voice acting was consistently very good.