Fixed

• Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky
• June 11, 2025 (Annecy) / August 13, 2025 (Netflix)

Voice Cast

• Bull-Adam DeVine
• Rocco-Idris Elba
• Honey-Kathryn Hahn
• Fetch-Fred Armisen
• Sterling-Beck Bennett
• Lucky-Bobby Moynihan
• Molasses-Michelle Buteau
• Frankie-River Gallo
• Nana-Grey DeLisle
• Luther-Aaron LaPlante

A dog learns he is going to be neutered the next morning and is taken by his friends for one last day of partying.

I went into Fixed wanting a laugh fueled by inappropriate humor. What I did instead was spend the next 85 minutes of my life not laughing and feeling bad for all involved since they irreparably harmed their careers by doing something so objectively awful. I ended with the realization that sometimes a movie is stuck in development hell for good reason.

It often mistakes instances or mentions of inappropriate stuff for the joke rather than it being part of the joke. You can go one about balls or show a character humping a leg but if that is all you do then that is not telling a joke. Simply talking about something is not funny. You need to actually have a setup and a punchline.

It’s tosses in a lot of weirdness but there’s no payoff and none of it is used well. We have a dog that eats poop, one that likes to pretend he’s human, a tough guy dog, and then there is Bull who is basically the fat slob and can’t see the girl he’s into is into him. It would have been an interesting joke to cast Kevin James in the part of Bull with Leah Remini as his love Honey but we got Adam DeVine and Kathryn Hahn instead.

Given the talent making the movie high expected something good. Genndy Tartakovsky has done fantastic work on shows like Dexter’s Laboratory and Samurai Jack. When I saw the first few frames of this film’s animation that visually harkened back to the days of Ren & Stimpy my hopes were raised further but it didn’t take long for those to be dashed against craggy animated rocks.

Has Genndy Tartakovsky reached a point in the animation world where the word “No” is never said to him anymore? I always ask something like that when somebody is involved with something that has the ingredients to be good falls flat. Nobody guided this. Ideas made it to the screen but not beyond a vague view on how to execute them.

The characters are uninteresting so you don’t really care too much about what happens to them. There’s nothing special that makes you them likable or watchable. A single quirk defines EVERYTHING. That can be fine for minor characters or ones that exist as solely part of a joke but a single aspect defining everything for a main character leads to overt predictability which eliminates humor.

Besides one wild night, the story is also about Bull finally confessing his feelings to Honey with whom he has been in love with since they were pups. There is also a subplot of group pal Lucky discovering his sexuality with an intersex Dobermann named Frankie.

The Bull/Honey story climaxes when Honey is taken to breed with local douche and show dog Sterling. Bull comically lands on Honey’s posterior where Sterling proceeds to sodomize him thinking he is doing the deed with Honey. Sterling is even ignorant of what Bull is stating to Honey. Reminds me of a joke involving the Invisible Man, Wonder Woman, and Superman.

They put a lot of effort into squeezing every drop of story idea they could from a wild night before the balls get cut off and because of that it just feels like this goes on far too long. I would say a third of this movie was set up with the last hour being all about the wild night that climaxed in Bull getting ramrodded with not a laugh to be had.

I had hope for Fixed with those hopes quickly squashed. I say avoid this. Watch any number of other things.