Seth Rogen’s Tiresome ‘Sausage Party’ Series Stretches Groan-Worthy Food Puns to Their Limit: TV Review
variety.comAlison Herman TV Critic Raunch is its own justification. Why does an animated feature about talking food need a follow-up TV series almost a decade after its initial release?
For the reason that Seth MacFarlane’s “Ted” got a seven-episode threequel that became one of the first big hits of this year, despite iffy execution and a lack of Mark Wahlberg: because people like to laugh, and because there are only so many R-rated sex jokes you can fit into an 89-minute movie.
As a result, it’s pointless to ask whether the 2016 film “Sausage Party” needs an eight-episode follow-up, subtitled “Foodtopia.” Of course it doesn’t, any more than the story has to abide by the movie’s fourth-wall-busting conclusion, in which an anthropomorphic bunch of talking foods resolve to track down their live-action creators. “Foodtopia” walks that back, but only slightly.
The denizens of the Shopwell’s supermarket, led by hot dog Frank (Seth Rogen) and his bun paramour Brenda (Kristen Wiig), have still staged a bloody revolution against their “humie” oppressors; food, the opening voiceover tells us, is now “the dominant species on planet Earth.” Once the celebratory orgy subsides — “Those peppers are getting stuffed,” Frank observes in one of many groan-worthy food puns — our edible heroes must build a new society from the ashes of the produce aisle.
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