Critic Reviews

"Sausage Party: Foodtopia" offers more of the same while also elevating things just enough to make this eight-course meal feel refreshing and hilarious all over again.

If Sausage Party was your type of humor, you'll love Foodtopia just as much if not more. This food is really cookin'.

Sausage Party: Foodtopia manages to once more capture the silly-meets-scandalous approach of the movie, proving there’s still many laughs to be had for those who were amused by cutesy, cursing, libidinous food the first time around.

It’s solidly made, structured with care, talented actors forming an unbroken chain of great performances, and with enough underlying heft to make it that bit more than simply a first-class joke factory.

Most of all, the season has a confident sense of humor that was lacking in its freshman outing.

There are obvious parallels to today’s bizarro political landscape and its annoying, blustery players, and the topicality of that adds spice to “Sausage Party: Foodtopia.” But more than anything, it’s the series’ oh-they-didn’t-just-go-there naughtiness, terrific vocal cast and ridiculous situations that make you laugh uncontrollably.

Sausage Party: Foodtopia remains funny, but it also feels toned down from what we're used to, whether that be on purpose, from overfamiliarity with this world, or the challenge of trying to top itself. Still, it's kept afloat by the characters we already know and love.

Not as full a meal as the original film, but almost as funny — and much filthier. If nothing else, it will put you off your food.

“Sausage Party: Foodtopia” feels like a show kind of caught between a feature sequel and its potential as a TV series. Now that Frank, Brend, and Barry have returned and brought along a few new friends, it’s certainly possible that future series could find a better balance in the writing. And there’s just enough wit and sharp humor here to make that an enticing potential meal.

If comedy like this makes you cringe pleasantly, it’s worth digging into Foodtopia. If not, excuse yourself. Sausage Party’s sequel isn’t bland, but it leaves much to be desired in its wake.