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Sausage Party: Foodtopia is an adult animated series that serves as a sequel to the first film Sausage Party. The series was created by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and Conrad Vernon and developed by Kyle Hunter and Ariel Shaffir, who worked on the film in key creative roles. It features an ensemble cast that includes Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Michael Cera, David Krumholtz, and Edward Norton reprising their roles from the film with Will Forte, Natasha Rothwell, Sam Richardson, and Yassir Lester voicing new characters.
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Premise
After standing up to the human race following the film's events, Frank and his friends establish a haven dubbed "Foodtopia". Following a massive flood that destroys their once-promised land, they have no choice but to partner with humans to ensure the survival of their race.
Why It Should Be Kicked Out of Foodtopia
- This show was completely unnecessary and poorly timed, as the original film already ended on a cliffhanger where the main characters go through a portal to the real world to try to kill their creators, which would easily make one assume that that's what a potential sequel would be about. Still, instead, that was thrown out the window, and the ending of said film is never even mentioned in this show, to begin with. It's unclear if the miniseries is canon or not to Sausage Party.
- Not to mention, this show was conceived even though the movie itself had a divisive reception.
- The idea of food being the new dominant species on Earth is an incredibly stupid idea, as not only does food rot after being left out of their package for too long, but food won’t be able to withstand rain or birds flying from the sky trying to eat them, and it doesn’t do any favors either that food won’t be able to withstand ants either once they’re left out for so long.
- Despite being animated by Bardel Entertainment (Rick and Morty, The Netflix era of VeggieTales) and Stellar Creative Lab, they try their best, however, while the animation is not as badly rushed as The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, not only is the animation itself still uncanny, but it's also a massive downgrade from the original film.
- This show retains the uncanny character designs from the original film, especially in Brenda's case, as she still has the worst character design in any character in the show. The character design for the new character, Julius, isn’t exactly better either. Also, the human designs still look more like Fanboy & Chum Chum rejects (and that was an already bad show, to begin with), while the food designs still look like they were reused from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which coincidentally, that film ended up with an awful show as well.
- The jokes are just awful, in fact, even worse than in the original film, as the show is overloaded with sex jokes, gross-out humor, and annoying food puns.
- Speaking of sex, because the entire show is nothing but sex and orgy jokes between food, every single one of them falls flat.
- Probably the worst offender of this is the scene in the sixth episode (Sixth Course) where Frank literally has sex with Jack, which keep in mind, Frank is a sausage, and Jack is a human, making this not only objectophilia but also sitophilia. It was so bad that Amazon was required to issue a warning for the episode beforehand. While the original film was no stranger to sex scenes, here, they took it to the next level.
- Many returning characters from the film have suffered the flanderization curse, and some of the new characters are unlikable, with one new example of an unlikable character being Julius, especially since he is just a carbon copy of former U.S. president Donald Trump, which comes off as horrible timing, since whether people love or hate the guy, there was an attempted assassination two days after this show was first released.
- Even for an adult show, this show tries way too hard to be hip and relevant to modern times, with one example of this being the scene featuring Megan Thee Scallion, which is just a reference to rapper Megan Thee Stallion.
- Sloppy pacing for all 8 episodes despite each episode being around 21-28 minutes long. It reaches the point where the show itself feels more like a Sausage Party sequel divided up into 8 parts.
- This show can be seen as a Canadian adult version of The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange, which is no better.
- Plot Hole: Some characters like Teresa del Taco, Firewater, Sally (the smooshed bun), and Mr. Grits are nowhere to be seen in the series without even any proper explanation, thus giving off the unfortunate implication that they all got killed by the flash flood.
- This show is filled to the brim with bad episodes, with the sixth episode perhaps being the worst episode in the series.
- The series introduces a horrible and unnecessary jump-the-shark moment where Brenda gets killed by Jeri Rice.
- And to make matters worse, near the end of the series, Frank somehow forgives Jeri Rice after the events of the entire series, even though she was the one who killed his girlfriend, Jeri framed him for Brenda's murder, and tried to kill him too.
- Not to mention, after Frank forgave Jeri Rice, the same crow we saw in the first half of the series swooped in and ate her, making Jeri Rice's redemption poorly executed, half-baked, and overall pointless.
- And to make matters worse, near the end of the series, Frank somehow forgives Jeri Rice after the events of the entire series, even though she was the one who killed his girlfriend, Jeri framed him for Brenda's murder, and tried to kill him too.
Qualities That Deserve Teeth
- The first minute and a half of the series (let alone the beginning of the first episode) was all right.
- The humor is still good and spot-on, as usual.
- Incredible voice acting, just like the original film this was based on, especially thanks to the fact that several of the original cast members reprise their roles.
- Okay story for a TV show based on a 2016 adult animated film.
- The theme song (despite being short) is pretty nice to listen to.
- Some of the new and old characters may be likable.
- Frank Frankfurter is still likable here much like he was in the original film.
- Brenda Bunson is much more tolerable here, especially since she is nowhere as mean-spirited as she was in the original film, and she is overall more kind to Frank.
- Some of the jokes can be pretty hilarious, especially the "Time to peel out, motherfucker" scene in the sixth episode.
- Some good moments such as:
- The "Burning Man" songs from the third episode, including "We're Gonna Start a Fire", are pretty catchy.
- Compared to the other episodes, Episode 4 (Fourth Course) had a pretty interesting use of end credits for an episode, consisting of the Call Me by Your Name-styled end credits, especially starting with the scene where Jack begins eating the foot that Frank and Brenda gave him, making way for a nice reference of an already good movie.
- Even though the series is completely unnecessary, the show can be seen as a good improvement over the film it was based on.
- Say what you will about this show, but it's also nice to see Sausage Party back in the limelight 8 years after the original film.
The Entire Series
Reception
Much like the original film, Sausage Party: Foodtopia received negative audience reviews. But unlike the film, Foodtopia was a lot more negatively received by both the critics and audience side, especially some fans of the original Sausage Party film, some of which considered the show to be an immense disappointment. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the series holds a 52% approval rating based on 20 reviews with an average rating of 5.80/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Clean up on aisle three—Foodtopia has plenty of rancid gags to tide over fans of Seth Rogen's sense of humor, but this follow-up can't help but feel like stale leftovers." On Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, the series assigned a score of 54 out of 100 based on 16 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
Trivia
- This is the first animated series made by Annapurna Television.
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