Season Review: Sausage Party: Foodtopia Season Two

The universe of Sausage Party returns to the screen with the Prime Video series Sausage Party: Foodtopia, a direct sequel to the 2016 animated film. The show’s second season picks up right where the show’s first season left off, with Frank, Brenda, and their friends having successfully overthrown humanity. Their victory(and Brenda’s eventual sacrifice) leads to the creation of a new, post-human world: “Foodtopia,” a self-governed society where food items are free to live as they please. In Season Two of Sausage Party: Foodtopia, exiled from home, Frank, Barry, and Sammy soon find themselves in New Foodland, a shining utopia for food and humans alike. But beneath the city’s glossy fridges and cheery smiles lies a dark secret that threatens the entirety of sentient food society.

The show’s core creative team is back, with Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Kyle Hunter, and Ariel Shaffir at the helm. The original voice cast also returns, including Seth Rogen as Frank,, Michael Cera as Barry, and Edward Norton as Sammy Bagel Jr. They are joined by a returning cast of characters from the first season voiced by Will Forte (“Joe”), Sam Richardson (as the orange politician Julius), and Natasha Rothwell(Rutabaga), along with some tasty new additions: Academy Award-winner Marion Cotillard, Jillian Bell, Martin Starr, Melissa Villaseñor, Patti Harrison, Jay Pharoah, Miles Fisher, Haley Joel Osment and Andre Braugher.

Just like its cinematic predecessor and the show’s first season, Foodtopia is a show that doubles down on its crude humor, graphic sexual content, and satirical take on social and political issues. The animation style is visually similar to the film, with a polished but often jarring quality that’s intended to be off-putting. The show’s humor is highly subjective, relying heavily on food-related puns, gross-out gags, and over-the-top character moments.

The show continues to showcase a hilariously messed-up animated world but at times manages to rehash old material almost doing another version of what the show’s first season already did in a lot of ways, leading to a sometimes dull and uninspired feel. But, the show continues to go hard on an outrageous premise featuring some of the strongest vocal performances from its cast. 

Overall, Sausage Party: Foodtopia is a series for those who loved the original film’s specific brand of humor. It continues to offer a new, extended look into a world without humans (albeit the ending seems to indicate another conflict could be on the horizon), complete with all the vulgarity, satire, and food puns you might expect. While the show is not for everyone, it successfully delivers the kind of humor fans of the original film have come to expect.