After coming off of a sophomore English seminar devoted entirely to the concept of object narratives, I underwent a complete nerdgasm following the release of Sausage Party, the new R-rated animated comedy brought to you by Seth Rogen and company. The latest hashtag inducing flick actually tackling and implementing a genre popularized in the 18th century? EGADS!!!

For the uninitiated: according to The Literary Encyclopedia, object narratives "recount the adventures of a non-human protagonist, such as a coin, a dog, a pin-cushion or [a sausage], as it travels through society, encountering diverse characters and incidents." Some literary examples of this include Black Beauty, Call of the Wild, and Gulliver's Travels. Some cinematic examples include Toy Story, A Bug's Life, and, yes, even Sausage Party.

The film centers around a society of food-beings, in particular, a sausage voiced by Rogen and a bun voiced by Kristen Wiig, who live out the entirety of their short, perishable lives in a grocery store hoping to be purchased by the gods (humans in this case) and brought to the great beyond.

At a certain point the film, a condiment is returned to the shelf bringing with him horror stories of what exactly the gods have in store outside those automatic doors: certain death.

And here's where the existential crises begin. The main cast of characters, though wrapped in delicately animated packaging, are a ragtag smorgasbord exhibiting authentic aspects of the human condition, thus making Sausage Party a prime example of the object narrative genre. Real questions regarding one's place in their respective and terrifying universe are weaved in between the crude humor and overt sexualization of food items.

Other topical issues relevant to today's audience make an appearance in the film masquerading in the form of sly jokes, unacknowledged aesthetic choices, and metaphorical dialogue. Bath salts are not only outright mentioned in a conversation between a human drug user and his dealer, it also becomes an integral plot device in the climactic food fight scene. Prejudicial barriers concerning both sexual orientation and religion are broken down, appearing in the form of the unlikely friendship between Jewish Sammy Bagel Jr. (voiced by Edward Norton doing a pretty obvious Woody Allen impression) and Kareem Abdul Lavash (voiced by David Krumholtz), and Teresa Taco's attraction to the buxom Brenda Bun (the former voiced by Salma Hayek and the latter Kristen Wiig).

A literal hotdog is coming to terms with his ultimate purpose and we, the very lucky audience, get to witness the hilarious and grotesque shenanigans that follow. I dub thee, Sausage Party, a movie worth watching. Check out Seth Rogen's hilarious Walt Disney impression in the promo clip dripping with satire below.