New on video: The ‘Sausage Party’ gang serves up filthy fun

New on Blu-ray

“Sausage Party” (Sony DVD, $26.99; Blu-ray, $34.99; 4K, $45.99; also available on VOD)

Don’t let the kids anywhere near the animated “Sausage Party,” the latest raunchy comedy from the minds of “Pineapple Express” co-writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. Rogen provides the voice of Frank, a sausage who looks forward to one day having sex with his girlfriend, a hot dog bun voiced by Kristen Wiig. When Frank and his other supermarket buddies find out that their ultimate purpose is to be taken home by humans who’ll consume them, they plot a revolt. At once an extreme parody of Pixar anthropomorphism and a biting examination of religious faith (no, seriously), “Sausage Party” fires off about a dozen comic ideas a minute, nearly all of which are filthy and/or bratty. But while this movie is undeniably puerile, like most of Rogen’s and Goldberg’s films, it’s also endearingly sincere, and frequently very funny.

Special features: Extensive behind-the-scenes featurettes.

VOD

“Dog Eat Dog” (available Friday)

It’s hard at first to know what to make of “Dog Eat Dog,” an over-the-top crime drama with Nicolas Cage as a slick crook and Willem Dafoe as his dangerously unhinged associate. But after about 15 minutes of scenery chewing, gratuitous nudity and spontaneous eruptions of violence, it becomes clearer that director Paul Schrader knows what he’s doing. This movie is, first and foremost, an indulgent black comedy, reveling in bad taste and cruel irony. It’s pure playtime for everyone involved, and while they’ve all done much better work in the past, there’s something infectiously unfettered about “Dog Eat Dog.” Fans of the unapologetically offensive will want to seek this one out.

TV set of the week

“Billions: Season One” (Showtime DVD, $42.99; Blu-ray, $49.99)

For anyone who has become exhausted by prestige cable dramas that move slow and take themselves oh-so-seriously, it’s time to give Showtime’s “Billions” a try. Its 12 first-season episodes have a rare vigor, driven by the feisty performances of Damian Lewis as a shady Wall Street billionaire and Paul Giamatti as the New York district attorney determined to bust him for insider trading. While the show sometimes goes too far in depicting how these characters’ big personalities spill over into sordid personal lives, “Billions” is mostly good, juicy fun, balancing actual insights into modern law and order in the finance industry with thrilling scenes of Lewis and Giamatti angling to push each other around.

Special features: A handful of featurettes.

From the archives

“Bubba Ho-Tep: Collector’s Edition” (Scream! Factory Blu-ray, $34.93)

Cult horror director Don Coscarelli may be finally getting his due thanks to a recent re-release of his 1979 classic “Phantasm” and thanks to thoughtful Blu-ray editions like the one Scream! Factory put together for 2002’s wonderfully weird “Bubba Ho-Tep.” Based on a bizarre Joe R. Lansdale novella, “Bubba Ho-Tep” stars Bruce Campbell as an aging Elvis Presley who comes out of hiding at a Texas retirement home to fight off a soul-sucking Egyptian mummy that’s been rampaging through the community in a cowboy outfit. Campbell’s a hoot as always (as is Ossie Davis as a friend of Elvis’ who claims to be John F. Kennedy in disguise). But the real star of the film is Coscarelli, and his knack for making the most ridiculous premises seem quasi-plausible.

Special features: A Coscarelli/Campbell commentary, a Lansdale commentary, deleted scenes, new and old interviews, and new and old featurettes.

Three more to see

“Indignation” (Lionsgate DVD, $219.98; Blu-ray, $24.99; also available on VOD); “Morris From America” (Lionsgate DVD, $19.98; Blu-ray, $24.99; also available on VOD); “Viktoria” (Big World DVD, $29.95)