premise: Sausage Party is a cat.
hypothesis: Craig Robinson (actor) . He played Darryl Philbin on The Office , and has appeared in the films Pineapple Express , Zack and Miri Make a Porno , Hot Tub Time Machine , This Is the End and Sausage Party . Sausage Party is a 2016 adult computer-animated comedy film directed by Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon and written by Kyle Hunter , Ariel Shaffir , Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg . It is the first CGI-animated film to be rated R by the MPAA . The film 's rough cut premiered on March 14 , 2016 at South by Southwest and the film was theatrically released in the United States and Canada on August 12 , 2016 by Columbia Pictures . The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed more than $ 140 million .