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Sausage Party (2016)

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 6.7
Sausage Party poster

Overview

Hot dog Frank leads a group of supermarket products on a quest to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they become chosen to leave the grocery store.


Starring Cast


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Bias Dimensions

Political: Strong Left
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Neutral
Islam: Positive
Judaism: Positive

Overview

Hot dog Frank leads a group of supermarket products on a quest to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they become chosen to leave the grocery store.


Starring Cast


Where to watch

Apple TV logoApple TV
Google Play logoGoogle Play
Fandango
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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Leans Progressive

Primary

The film explicitly promotes a progressive ideology by relentlessly critiquing organized religion and blind faith, advocating for liberation from oppressive systems, and championing sexual freedom and self-determined meaning.

The movie features anthropomorphic food characters, which inherently bypasses traditional human racial or gender casting considerations for 'swaps.' While the film includes characters with distinct cultural identities, this is integrated into the satirical narrative rather than being an explicit DEI-driven recasting. The story broadly critiques consumerism and religious dogma, but does not explicitly portray traditional identities negatively or center its narrative around a strong DEI critique.

Secondary

Sausage Party includes multiple same-sex relationships, notably between Brenda and Teresa, and Sammy Bagel Jr. and Kareem Abdul Lavash. These relationships are depicted with the same crude, explicit, and comedic tone as the film's heterosexual pairings. While not offering a deeply affirming portrayal, the film does not specifically denigrate queer identity, instead integrating it into its broader theme of sexual freedom for all characters.

Similar to Judaism, the film uses the initial antagonism between the Islamic and Jewish characters to satirize religious prejudice. The narrative arc culminates in their reconciliation and romantic relationship, promoting a message of understanding and unity over sectarian conflict.

The film initially depicts a stereotypical conflict between Jewish and Islamic characters, satirizing historical religious animosity. However, the narrative explicitly resolves this conflict by having the characters overcome their prejudice, find common ground, and form a loving relationship, thereby affirming unity over division.

Sausage Party does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative focuses on anthropomorphic food items discovering their existential purpose, with humor derived from crude jokes and parodies, rather than exploring gender identity.

The film features female characters who participate in chaotic action sequences and the final battle. However, there are no specific scenes where a female character individually defeats one or more male opponents through skill, strength, or martial arts in close-quarters physical combat.

Sausage Party is an original animated film featuring new characters created for the movie. There is no prior source material, historical context, or previous installments from which characters' genders could have been established and subsequently altered.

Sausage Party features original, anthropomorphic food characters, not human characters with established racial identities from prior canon or history. Therefore, no race swap occurs.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

6.7

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
6.1
The Movie Database logo
5.7

Critic Ratings

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8.2
Metacritic logo
6.6

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