Today brought the release of Sausage Party, a movie that, while definitely not appropriate for kids, has been earning many positive reviews.
If they went the live action route, that would have eliminated the “poking fun” element and not made Sausage Party quite as amusing.
After all, while animation aimed at adults has been around for a while, Sausage Party is the first, R-rated feature length all-CGI animated movie.
As hilarious and weird as a live action Sausage Party would have been (and no doubt an parody video will soon pop up using that concept), there’s no way making the movie like that would have been practical.