Beloved classic movies like The Sound of Music and The Shawshank Redemption are being blown out of the water (critically, anyway) by a film about ... a talking hot dog.
The Seth Rogen-helmed comedy, Sausage Party, is so well reviewed that if you were to judge by its Rotten Tomatoes score alone, it would be a favorite for winning an Oscar for Best Picture. At the time of publication, Sausage Party holds a 92 percent on Rotten Tomatoes with glowing praise like, "Consistently hilarious, even borderline genius, and the most fun you'll have in a cinema this year" and "There is nothing redeemable about Sausage Party, other than how hard it made me laugh." That makes it a better rated film than 42 past Best Picture winners.
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