In Fixed, Premiering at the Annecy International Festival of Animation in France, Netflix Has A Nice Feature Film Companion Piece for Its OH-SO-adult Animation Shows like Big Mouth. This one about a pooch named bull fetting over the immenent loss of his doggie testicles – or so he thinks – is in the vein of rogen’s very set rogenish 2016 toon Sausage Party And Going Way Back to the King of the Genre Ralph Bakshi 1972 Fritz the cat, Who was sold with the ad line, “We’re not rated ‘x’ for notthin ‘, baby!”
That Animated Breakthrough Announched Loudly and Prodly That Cartoons are not Always Always Stuff, But Quite Frankly, Compared to Fixed, It might as well have come from Disney.
Credit Sony Pictures Animation for This Production, and I am not sura sura why they unloaded it to netflix, but you can bet will have a lot of more access to this movie and they might love it. Parents Check Those Parental Controls. You have been warned.
With Animation that LOOKS PROBABLY ATTENTIONALLY JUST ONE STEP ABOVE (AND NOT ENCTION) The Old Saturday Morning 2D-Cartoon Style, Director genndy tartakovsky (Samurai Jack) and his co-writer Jon Vitti (SNL, The Simpsons) Might as Well Have Pitched This AS Lady and the tramp meets Deep Throat (Reference Too Old?). At it heart, though, the character design of this one is not that it different-the dogs are just as individual and appealing in their foul-mouthed way as those in the 1955 disney classic.
But this one stakes it claim to it right rating right from the beginning as we were hear the sexual ecstasy unseen from another room in the house, the Camera finally zero in ours, bull (Voicmed by Adam Devine), Humping Nana with Complete Abandon and in Vivid Detail. This appears to be out four-legged harvey weinstein’s main joy in life as we learn his complete obsession with his ever-visible nuts, there is also heartache in this bull but intimidated by towering next-door Honey (Kathryn Hahn), to Whom he hes politically incorrect things as she Peers over the phence.
The problem is revealed as bull, pampered from his puppy days by his loving owners, gets wind that is about to have the crown jewels – which has nicknamed spice and napoleon – snipped. Ruff Break. On a Visit to wiggly Field, the dog park, his balls are stall the object of affection for a number of hounds who don’t have anymore. It is also there and meets his match for the ungettable honey, a narcissistic showdog named sterling (beck bennett) who is being groomed to mathem. ARRRRRFF.
As he Meets with His Buddies Rocco (Idris Elba), Fetch (Fred Armisen) and Lucky the Chihuahua (Bobby Moynihan), Bull Also realishes he has been to his escape or say goodbye to his pride and joys. Like Lady and the Tramp, This Leads to A Wild Time on the Town Including A Hilarious Interlude With Street Cats and to A Sleazy Strip Club/Brothel where we meet one Major Seductor, Doberman Frankie (River Gallo), Who Gets on with one of the saying. quite as funny as they are in print. SO you will have to see for your yourselph just how Far tartakovsky, Clearly Working with no restraints, wants to take this.
Still, to avoid this being just one long one-Joke premise, there is a satisfying ending, and the film’s Last Act delivers in a way that that is redeems. Fixed is fun, if you aren’t offended easily.
Title: Fixed
Festival: Annecy International Festival of Animation
Distributor: Netflix
Release Date: August 13, 2025 (Streaming Only)
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
Screenwriters: Genndy Tartakovsky and Jon Vitti
Cast: Adam Devine, Idris Elba, Kathryn Hahn, Fred Armisen, Bobby Moynihan, Beck Bennett, Michelle Buteau, River Gallo
Rating: R
TIME RUNNING: 1 hour and 26 minutes
