Agreed. Sausage Party was crude, but it didn’t make its crudeness the focus of the whole movie. The movie had themes, decent character arcs, and a point to it that it followed through on right until the end.
That’s what I was hoping this would turn out to be. I think I’m going to be disappointed.

Sausage Party had some unexpected substance to it. Themes of the importance of social skepticism and critical thinking, while remaining respectful to the people around you who’s deeply held beliefs are really important to them. It definitely wasn’t a one joke movie, which this is really looking like.
I was hoping it…

This looks like Melissa McCarthy’s “Theodore Rex”.

That’s a slightly kinder way of saying he was on a pig.

Yeah, for whatever reason I thought the original concept made it sound like a dark Noir-tinged black comedy with puppets. I’m curious if bringing on McCarthy led to this, since Henson had been having difficulty getting the film financed before she stepped on as a producer and rewrote the script.

To be fair, Sausage Party was actually incisive and had a method to its madness. I’ll readily defend that movie. This is just crass for crassness’ sake.

On the one hand, I really hate Meet the Feebles.

You were on a boar? Haha, hey everybody, this guy says he was on a boar!

I was on boar with the concept but they played this trailer before Deadpool last night and it lost me with the jizz joke. 

Oh, the premise is better than this looks.

Having watched this trailer:

This could have been a Muppet version of Roger Rabbit... Instead it looks kinda stupid and one-joke. I’m not at all interested in it.

I’m hoping it’s just bad marketing.

I was hoping for something a little more stylish and satirical than just puppets swearing and having sex, but at least the comic timing here seems on point. I’m gonna choose to remain optimistic that there’s a little more wit here than the trailer would indicate.

Ugh. Ive been looking forward to this for years, after reading a review of the script.

By contrast, this looks pretty good:

I liked this movie when it was called Meet the Feebles. And I didn’t like that movie.

I saw Life of the Party last night, it was pretty painfully unfunny, including you Maya Rudolph! This doesn’t seem like as much of a McCarthy vehicle, but man her movies can be really funny or absolutely terrible.

Having been excited by early reports of this movie, I’m pretty disappointed. I was hoping for something legitimately dark, but this just looks like a dumb raunchy comedy with the sole shtick of “look at these puppets swearing and fucking!”

Hard same. And movie that doesn’t flinch on the realities or takes a hard left into “its all worth it” territory is a big win for me.