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Sausage Party is a 2016 CGI-animated feature film that has the dubious honor of being the first R-rated, completely-CGI feature-length film ever producednote . It is a co-production of Point Grey Pictures, Annapurna Pictures, Nitrogen Studios Canadanote , and Columbia Pictures. Directed by Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon (yes, that guy), it features an All-Star Cast of Seth Rogen (who also serves as co-producer), Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill, Bill Hader, Salma Hayek, Michael Cera and James Franco among others. It is yet another collaboration between Rogen and co-screenwriter and co-producer Evan Goldberg, and their eighth film with Sony.
An anthromorphic sausage named Frank (voiced by Rogen) lives in a supermarket with various other food items, with the intent to be picked by a customer. When a woman comes in and purchases Frank and several others, the foods are delighted when they are taken home and believed to be fulfilling their destiny. However, this "destiny" turns out to be what you expect it to be. After Frank witnesses the horrific onslaught of several of his fellow foods, he must devise a plan to help himself and his surviving food buddies escape and discover the meaning of his and all of foods' existence.
This plot gets served with adult visual puns, rampant profanity, double enterdres, sexual innuendos and ethnic stereotyping, all in an attempt to be a raunchy satire of modern animated family films from the likes of Pixar and DreamWorks Animation.
A rough cut of Sausage Party (dubbed as a "work-in-progress" cut) was first shown during the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas on March 14, 2016, with a Red Band trailer released shortly thereafter. The final cut is currently set for a wide release in the United States on August 12, 2016.