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Have watched "Sausage Party" with my kids, and found it pretty bad :poop:

That is possibly one of the dangers of streaming videos from the internet, that there was no warning whatsoever that it is actually an "Adult cartoon".

We had seen a preview trailer in another cartoon DVD (for a kids cartoon) and my kids (14 and 12) found the preview funny.
Nevertheless, about 2 minutes into the cartoon, my son said "Well, that is surely a strange cartoon. Why are they saying "F*ck", "C*nt" and "B*tch" all the time? That is definitely not from Disney..."

Now, I don't mind that a lot, but the movie was simply bad as far as the storyline and the "jokes" were concerned. No creative ideas, mainly explicit references to sexual acts (however, not critical, as it was about FOOD having sex with each other, but still strange) and drug use. The main protagonists were a (male) wiener sausage and a (female) hotdog bun daydreaming what they would do once they get bought by customers and go to "the great beyond". Wow. So "Adult". No creativity, just trying to be "Adult" IMO.

Another example ... In the beginning, all the food products in the supermarket, before the opening for the day, sing a song together. There is a shelf of presumably German mustard jars, complete with "3rd Reich" logo, Gothic lettering and Hitler moustache, who do a Nazi salute and sing "We'll exterminate the Juice" ... well, I get it, "Juice" does sound like "Jews", and the Nazis wanted to exterminate the Jews. What I am struggling with is in which parallel universe or reality people would actually consider that to be a moderately funny joke....

I have, of course (I mentioned that earlier), an even heavier criticism from the vegan perspective ... the movie tries to make fun of food having a life and being horribly slaughtered by humans. That seems quite offensive to me, as there truly ARE living beings that are horribly mistreated by humans' hunger ... but those are not small slices of pizza who have their tiny legs horribly bitten off, but rather the animals that lose their lives to produce meat, dairy and eggs. The whole idea of the movie seems - to me - to be making light fun of their plight. Not funny.
 
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Andy_T said:
Have watched "Sausage Party" with my kids, and found it pretty bad :poop:

That is possibly one of the dangers of streaming videos from the internet, that there was no warning whatsoever that it is actually an "Adult cartoon".

We had seen a preview trailer in another cartoon DVD (for a kids cartoon) and my kids (14 and 12) found the preview funny.
Nevertheless, about 2 minutes into the cartoon, my son said "Well, that is surely a strange cartoon. Why are they saying "F*ck", "C*nt" and "B*tch" all the time? That is definitely not from Disney..."

Now, I don't mind that a lot, but the movie was simply bad as far as the storyline and the "jokes" were concerned. No creative ideas, mainly explicit references to sexual acts (however, not critical, as it was about FOOD having sex with each other, but still strange) and drug use. The main protagonists were a (male) wiener sausage and a (female) hotdog bun daydreaming what they would do once they get bought by customers and go to "the great beyond". Wow. So "Adult". No creativity, just trying to be "Adult" IMO.

Another example ... In the beginning, all the food products in the supermarket, before the opening for the day, sing a song together. There is a shelf of presumably German mustard jars, complete with "3rd Reich" logo, Gothic lettering and Hitler moustache, who do a Nazi salute and sing "We'll exterminate the Juice" ... well, I get it, "Juice" does sound like "Jews", and the Nazis wanted to exterminate the Jews. What I am struggling with is in which parallel universe or reality people would actually consider that to be a moderately funny joke....

I have, of course (I mentioned that earlier), an even heavier criticism from the vegan perspective ... the movie tries to make fun of food having a life and being horribly slaughtered by humans. That seems quite offensive to me, as there truly ARE living beings that are horribly mistreated by humans' hunger ... but those are not small slices of pizza who have their tiny legs horribly bitten off, but rather the animals that lose their lives to produce meat, dairy and eggs. The whole idea of the movie seems - to me - to be making light fun of their plight. Not funny.
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That's why you should always read the reviews before watching. The trailer makes it look pretty funny, but after reading the reviews, I knew it wasn't a kids movie. I think it's mostly popular with older teenagers, and those who like to spend time in an altered state (fyi, that's pc speak for drugs and alcohol). :p
 
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Calliegirl said:
That's why you should always read the reviews before watching.
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I fully agree, but so far had not applied that very sensible and simple strategy to cartoons.

Also, just looking at the 6.3/10 score on www.imdb.com, it looks decent at first glance (But then, "Wolf of Wall Street" had an even higher 8.2/10 score, and was still IMO a pretty bad movie).
 
Andy_T said:
I fully agree, but so far had not applied that very sensible and simple strategy to cartoons.

Also, just looking at the 6.3/10 score on www.imdb.com, it looks decent at first glance (But then, "Wolf of Wall Street" had an even higher 8.2/10 score, and was still IMO a pretty bad movie).
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I admit, I usually only watch the trailers for animated movies before watching, and only read the reviews if I'm not sure about it. The censored trailer for Sausage Party did make it look pretty tame.
 
Even with the character who looks like a vulva!?

I watched Interstellar finally. I actually rather enjoyed it. I think you have to be into long winded thinky sci-fi films to enjoy it, and not everyone is.
 
Calliegirl said:
The censored trailer for Sausage Party did make it look pretty tame.
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Indeed. I had seen the trailer together with my kids in front of some regular kids cartoon, and none of us had any inkling that this would be in any way different (other than that I thought it funny that the title of the movie is something I vaguely remembered hearing in connection with adult subjects. Duh. But well, not being a native English speaker, I do not actually know whether "sausage party" is a common term with innocent uses. )
 
This is a short NSFW fan flim.... enjoy. :cool: (Very well done, awesome fight choreography)

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Who knew the "Merc with a Mouth" could sing?! Check out this fan-made musical mashup of “Deadpool” and “Beauty & the Beast” featuring Wade’s own NSFW, mature-audiences version of the classic song “Gaston” from the original musical! (If you like it, please share it! #DeadpoolMusical)
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Have watched The Accountant.

Great movie :)
Initially I thought ... What the ???, "accountant" is not that sexy a profession, why are so many people watching this movie?

Then I read a movie review on IMDB that piqued my interest, and lo and behold, it was quite fitting...

A reviewer said:
It's as if John Wick is the savant janitor from Good Will Hunting, and surprisingly, it worked.
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So, if you liked "John Wick", then this movie is for you....
 

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