Surprise! Seth Rogen's 'Sausage Party' is kind of smart.
SAN DIEGO — When giggling stoner guru Seth Rogen invites you to watch an animated feature he wrote by the name of Sausage Party — and when you walk past posters that basically turn Rogen's character, Frank the hot dog, into a dick joke — it's fair to say your expectations are set to minimum.
Probably the last thing you're expecting is a meditation on life, death, race, diversity, religion and reality. Buried here is a lesson — be gentle when contradicting people's firmly-held beliefs — that Democrats especially would do well to learn as they hone their outreach to Republican voters this year.* Read more...