‘Sausage Party: Foodtopia’ Season 2 Review: Prime Video’s Raunchy Comedy Series Stumbles Before One Big Twist Changes Everything

When Sausage Party was released in theaters in 2016, audiences got something they’d never seen before. Imagine an animated film with a Toy Story-like setup, but with food that comes to life at the grocery store when humans aren’t around. However, Sausage Party was no Disney family film, but a very adult one, with scenes of shocking raunch that not only included scene after scene of hilarious food orgies, but a revolution against humanity, which sees food rise up to kill us for eating them.

Where the hell do you go after that?! The answer was a TV series. Sausage Party: Foodtopia, which premiered on Prime Video in 2024, brought back most of its big-name cast, led by Seth Rogen, Michael Cera, Edward Norton, and Kristen Wiig, for a look at what happens after the revolution. The food tries to build their own society, leading to some disastrous consequences, and the arrival of a human named Jack (Will Forte). At the end of the first season, Brenda Bunson (Wiig) is dead, and Frank’s (Rogen) attempt to build a true foodtopia saw the other food begin to turn against his communist ways. Now, Sausage Party: Foodtopia is back on Amazon Prime Video for a second season. The gross-out humor isn’t as shocking as it used to be, but the message, with Frank and others cast out and trying to make it alone in a new world, is just as relevant as ever today.

What Is ‘Sausage Party: Foodtopia’ Season 2 About?

In the first season of Sausage Party: Foodtopia, the need to create a society is corrupted by Julius (Sam Richardson), an evil orange (and Donald Trump) parody who turns out to be run by a sinister grain of rice up his butt by the name of Jeri Rice (Stephanie Beard). At the end, Jeri Rice is defeated, although Brenda Bunson loses her life in the process. As the season concludes, Frank is in control and can finally realize his dream of creating a foodtopia, but with him wanting complete control, everyone else isn’t happy.

As Season 2 of Foodtopia opens, the other food has had it with Frank, who now rides around on human Jack (Forte), partially as a way to keep him protected. The other food begins to plot Frank’s assassination, but settles on throwing him, Barry (Cera), and Sammy Bagel Jr. (Norton) out of the community. The trio of friends is now on their own in a world beyond the grocery store and shopping complex they called home. We get to see that the revolution has spread elsewhere, with no humans in sight. What begins as a post-apocalyptic adventure turns into our protagonists finding a new food community called Newfoodland, where everything is a little too good to be true.

The residents of Newfoodland operate just like Frank wished for, with everyone happy to lend a helping hand to their neighbor. It has resulted in quite a sophisticated and high-tech society, where Frank, Barry, and Sammy are treated like revolutionary heroes. Here, the friends get to be everything they ever wanted, with Frank serving on the town council, Barry working with and falling head-over-heels for a badass soldier in the form of a mustard container named Dijon (Marion Cotillard), and Sammy Bagel Jr. becoming a renowned filmmaker. But Newfoodland is a little too perfect. Not only has the community commandeered some surviving humans to help them rebuild their world, but the revelation about how this society is kept afloat will force Frank, Barry, and Sammy to decide whether this new lifestyle is worth it or if they must fight to protect the past.

‘Sausage Party: Foodtopia’s Humor Starts To Fall Flat in This Familiar World

With most of the previous supporting characters of Sausage Party: Foodtopia put in the background, the series has to create a whole new cast of wacky characters. For the most part, it succeeds. Newfoodland is led by Trish (Jillian Bell), a walnut whose shell is like a big brain, which gives her an almost mind-reading-like sense of intuition. While not the strongest of characters, the one that might make you laugh most is Sherman (Martin Starr), a sheet cake modeled after a naked woman, complete with eyeballs where the breasts are and a face that says, “Happy Birthday Dave.” It’s a shame that Starr wasn’t allowed to go as crazy as Sherman’s appearance.

The aforementioned Cotillard is the sexiest jar of mustard you’ve ever seen, a strong woman who plays a major part in the human subplot while also having feelings for Barry. That’s not the only romance in Foodtopia, however. Jack, who was never accepted by the food in Foodtopia (seeing as how he spent a lifetime eating them and all), finds a purpose in Newfoodland, and also finds love in the form of another human named Jill (Patti Harrison). Jack and Jill, get it? If this new season of Sausage Party: Foodtopia has any flaws, it’s that the humor doesn’t taste as good as it did before. Some of that comes from the simple fact that the over-the-top scenario no longer feels so wild. The orgies are still there, but they are kept to a minimum. There are still plenty of great jokes and food parodies (the food directors modeled after the likes of Francis Ford Coppola and Quentin Tarantino, among others, are hilarious), but the gut-busting, laugh-until-you-cry shocks aren’t here. It’s not just weaker Jack and Jill jokes, but a way too late reference to Will Smith‘s Academy Awards slap, or one more “What’s in the box?!” punchline from Seven that got old two decades ago.

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. Jack gets to show more emotion and brains this time around, Frank is forced to confront his methods, Barry finds a way to stand out away from Frank’s shadow, and Sammy Bagel Jr., the funniest character by far in the first season, gets lost in his self-importance as a director. The laughs aren’t as loud this time around, but the characters still compel and evolve.

‘Sausage Party: Foodtopia’ Season 2 Sets Up a Twist for More

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What separated the first season of Foodtopia from the movie that birthed it was that the show went beyond perverted hijinks to become something surprisingly smart. The evolution of a free food world was like the evolution of a free humanity, warts and all, with the food forming political parties and having elections. The initial season ended with Frank’s socialist daydreams being much harder to accomplish in reality. In Season 2, the political exploration is finding that type of society which actually works, then peeling back the layers to find the ugly truth beneath the utopia. More than once, Sausage Party: Foodtopia asks what food is worth. Is one kind of food more valuable from a life perspective based on what it is or where it is from? Is it okay to ignore a fellow food if you don’t know them? Those questions mirror the harshness of our own current reality.

In the eighth and final episode of Foodtopia, the series takes another twist that we won’t give away here. Suddenly, everything changes in a dramatic shift that could go in any number of directions. It involves the introduction of a character voiced by the late Andre Braugher (the series pays tribute to him in the end credits), and although it will be sad that he won’t be there to carry whatever comes next in Season 3, Sausage Party: Foodtopia is ready for its next chapter. Let’s just hope that the next installment remembers to make us laugh just as much as it makes us think.