In all honesty though, from reading about Seth Rogen's and Evan Goldberg's upcoming "adult" animated comedy, I'm not getting much of a hope for greatness generated. To start out, this is very far from the point I made in the last blog. What these comedy regulars intend to do is produce an animated comedy with tons of raunchy jokes and I can only assume an endless slur of profanity with Danny McBride involved.
I'm not against it. That's just to clarify, but what I don't like is that they're not improving the image of animation with this idea. Lets analyze the premise here: The main characters a sausages. It's an adult comedy. We can clearly see where this leads. Now what we've discussed before is that animation needs expansion into more mature audiences. But are we talking the same mature here? Some see it as more of an excuse to use elements that would be most unwarranted in polite company, but maturity has a big stem in understanding complexity. And we want more complex animations. Movies with bigger messages. Deeper elements. Does Sausage Party have this? So far it doesn't look that way. Lets face it. What we're seeing here is stuff that your average 12 year old will still be entertained by. There's nothing revealed that would give a second thought, and until there is, I don't have much hope this film will be bringing much expansion of audience to the medium of animation. To say as the title does, counter-productive.
Those are my cold thoughts on it. Now with who's involved I don't believe this movie is going to be bad per-se, but it certainly doesn't sound forward moving.
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