

Brenda saves Frank as Barry and the other groceries catch Douche and Darren in a garbage pail strapped to propane tanks. He confronts Frank about becoming a god now that he is in control of Darren and takes a bite out of Frank's torso. Several humans are gruesomely killed while Douche takes control of Darren, the store manager (parody of Ratatouille).

The group drugs the human shoppers and employees with toothpicks laced with bath salts, whereupon an epic battle begins. They panic at first, but then shortly refuse to believe Frank until Barry, Gum, and the other groceries from the addict's home return with the addict's severed head, proving that the humans can be killed. He discovers a cookbook beyond the freezer section and reveals its contents to the store's inhabitants. The Addict accidentally burns himself and Barry yanks his shoelaces, making him slip and causing an axe to fall and decapitate him.įrank's friends disapprove of his skepticism of the Great Beyond. However, the bath salts soon wear off and the addict prepares to cook Barry. Carl spots a nearby open window but he is killed from being stabbed and sliced upwards by the shopper, leaving Barry to escape alone.īarry then encounters a human drug addict, who becomes able to communicate with his groceries, one of them being Gum, a Stephen Hawking-like wad of chewing gum, after injecting himself with bath salts. Meanwhile, at the shopper’s house, Carl and Barry are horrified to see the shopper eat all of the foods. Frank vows to reveal the truth and is encouraged to travel beyond the store's freezer section to find proof, while Brenda, Sammy and Lavash are brought to the Mexican food aisle by a bottle of tequila, who is secretly working for Douche, until a lesbian taco named Teresa del Taco, who develops a crush on Brenda, helps them escape Douche. There, he meets Firewater and learns that Firewater and his colleagues, the Non-Perishables, created the white lie of the Great Beyond to assuage the inhabitants' fear of being eaten. Seeking to verify Honey Mustard's warning, Frank leads Brenda, Sammy and Lavash to the store's liquor aisle. Honey Mustard's suicide creates an accidental cart collision that causes Frank, Brenda and several groceries to fall out of the cart, including a Jewish bagel named Sammy Bagel Jr., a Middle-Eastern lavash named Kareem Abdul Lavash and an aggressive douche who, after his nozzle is bent on impact, swears revenge on Frank and Brenda. Before committing suicide by falling onto the shop floor, Honey Mustard tells Frank to seek out a bottle of liquor named Firewater. On their way out of the store, a returned jar of honey mustard tries to warn the groceries that the Great Beyond is not what it is said to be, but nobody listens except Frank. Among the store's groceries is a sausage named Frank, who dreams of living in the Great Beyond with his hot dog bun girlfriend Brenda and his friends Carl and Barry.įrank and Brenda's packages are purchased by a female shopper. Unbeknownst to humans, a supermarket called Shopwell's is filled with anthropomorphic grocery items that believe that the human shoppers are gods who take purchased groceries to a utopia known as the "Great Beyond". It grossed $140.7 million against a budget of $19 million, becoming the highest-grossing R-rated animated film at the time until it was surpassed by Demon Slayer: Mugen Train in 2020. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised its humor and screenplay. The film's rough cut premiered on March 14, 2016, at South by Southwest, followed by its general theatrical release in the United States on August 12, 2016, by Columbia Pictures. It is the first 3D computer-animated film to be rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America. The film's animation was handled by the Canada-based Nitrogen Studios. He goes on a journey with his friends to escape their fate while also facing a psychopathic douche who wants to kill him. A parody of Disney and Pixar films, the film follows an anthropomorphic sausage who lives in a supermarket and discovers the truth about what happens when groceries are purchased. Sausage Party is a 2016 adult computer-animated comedy film directed by Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan and written by Kyle Hunter, Ariel Shaffir, Seth Rogen, and Evan Goldberg from a story by Rogen, Goldberg, and Jonah Hill.
