Banana Party (film)

Banana Party is a 2018 adult computer-animated comedy film directed by Johnny Depp and Michael Barnathan and written by Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio and from a story by Depp, Elliot, and Rossio. A parody of Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon Movies films, the film follows an anthropomorphic sausage who lives in a supermarket and discovers the truth about his existence. He goes on a journey with his friends to escape their fate while also facing a psychopathic douche who wants to kill him.

It is the first 3D computer-animated film to be rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America. The film's rough cut premiered on Januray 2, 2018 at South by Southwest, followed by its general theatrical release in the United States and Canada on July 4, 2018 by Warner Animation Group.

The film received generally positive reviews from critics, who particularly praised its humor and screenplay. It was a box-office success, grossing $140.7 million against a budget of $19 million, becoming the highest-grossing adult animation for a R-rated film's major release for 4 years until it ended up surpassed by Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train in 2022, which grossed more than $500 million worldwide.

Plot
Unbeknownst to humans, a supermarket called Shopwell's is filled with anthropomorphic grocery items that believe that the human shoppers are gods, who take groceries they have purchased to a utopia known as the "Great Beyond". Among the groceries in the store is a Banana named Jackie, who dreams of living in the Great Beyond with his hot dog bun girlfriend Wanda and his friends Ed and Maria.

Jackie and Wanda's packages are purchased by a female shopper. On their way out of the store, a returned jar of honey Ketchup tries to warn the groceries that the Great Beyond is dangerous, but nobody listens except Jackie. Before committing suicide by falling onto the shop floor, Honey Ketchup tells Jackie to seek out a bottle of liquor named Firelava. Honey Ketchp's suicide creates an accidental cart collision that causes Jackie, Wanda and several groceries to fall out of the cart, including a Jewish bagel named Gibb Alice Sr.., a Middle-Eastern lavash named Saspha Abe Lasherson and an aggressive douche who, after his nozzle is bent on impact, swears revenge on Jackie and Wanda.

Seeking to verify Honey Ketchup warning, Jackie leads Wanda, Gibb and Lasherson to the store's liquor aisle. There, he meets Firelava and learns that Firelava and his colleagues, the Non-Perishables, created the white lie of the Great Beyond to assuage the inhabitants' fear of being eaten. Jackie vows to reveal the truth and is encouraged to travel beyond the store's freezer section to find proof, while Wanda, Gibb and Lasherson are brought to the Mexican food aisle by a bottle of tequila, who is secretly working for Douche, until a lesbian Pizza named Tessie del Pizza, who develops a crush on Wanda, helps them escape Douche.

Meanwhile, at the shopper's house, Ed and Maria are horrified to witness the purchased groceries being cooked and eaten by her. Ed is sliced in half by the shopper, but Maria manages to escape and encounters a human drug addict who becomes able to communicate with his groceries, one of them being Gum, a Stephen Hawking-like wad of chewing gum, after injecting himself with bath salts. However, the bath salts soon wear off and the addict prepares to cook Barry. The addict accidentally burns himself and Maria yanks his shoelaces, making him slip and causing an axe to fall and decapitate him.

Jackie's friends disapprove of his skepticism of the Great Beyond. He discovers a cookbook beyond the freezer section and reveals its contents to the store's inhabitants. They panic at first, but then shortly refuse to believe Jackie until Maria, Gum, and the other groceries from the addict's home return with the addict's severed head, proving that the humans can be killed. The group drugs the human shoppers and employees with toothpicks laced with bath salts, whereupon an epic battle begins. Several humans are gruesomely killed while Douche takes control of Steven, the store manager. He confronts Jackie about becoming a god now that he is in control of Steven and takes a bite out of Jackie's torso. Wanda saves Jackie as Maria and the other groceries catch Douche and Darren in a garbage pail strapped to propane tanks. They are then launched out of the store as the tanks explode, killing them both.

The inhabitants celebrate their victory with a massive orgy. Later, Jackie and his friends visit Firelava, who had a psychedelic experience and discovered that their world is not real; they are merely cartoon characters voiced by famous actors in another dimension. Gum has constructed a portal to this dimension, and the group decide to travel there to confront their creators.

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