It may not be suitable for kids, but that’s not to say that this strenuously profane cartoon is not unapologetically juvenile in its approach to comedy. Full of drug references and robustly filthy gags, this is a stoner movie with a neat central idea – sentient food and consumer durables are unaware of what happens to them when they leave the supermarket – but an over-reliance on shock tactics and crude racial stereotypes. Seth Rogen, who also co-wrote the screenplay, voices Frank, a hotdog who inadvertently stumbles upon the truth about “the great beyond” and the “gods” who pluck them from the shelves and wheel them to what they had hitherto believed was a promised land. It’s funniest when the film-makers appropriate the filmic language of the disaster movie, in a savage sequence set in a suburban kitchen. The staggeringly rude finale, however, is enough to put you off your food.
