Master of animation Genndy Tartakovsky, creator of Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Primal, and many other shows, has long said Fixed is his passion project. This tale of humping, shitting, cumming dogs having a sexual night on the town has been in production for YEARS, and is now finally unleashed on the world. Was it worth the wait? Absolutely not.

With the turgid pacing of an early 2000s sitcom and the humor of the grossest sixth grader you had to work on a group project with, Fixed is not going to win any converts to the “animation is cinema” movement. In fact, it feels like what critics of animated films picture when they say they’re worthless and for babies. Sure, the animation is fluid, but does that really mean anything when its mostly being used for humping and slapping balls? There’s also the issue of Tartakovsky’s usual level of racial sensitivity… perhaps this entire production should have been kept in the vault.

The plot is simple: Bull (Adam Devine– oh joy, my favorite voice to hear for 80 minutes), an extremely horny mutt, has an appointment to get his balls chopped off in the morning. Before that can happen, he runs away for a debaucherous night on the town with his boys, a collection of one-dimensional dog buddies who help Bull track down his crush, a showdog voiced by Kathyrn Hahn. Surface level dick jokes, poop jokes, pee jokes, cum jokes, and sex jokes abound. Though we’re constantly seeing buttholes and balls, there’s a weird streak of censorship. We can see a dog get splattered into roadkill, but we never see a dog actively shitting? The act of shitting is offscreen? Why?

There’s also the matter of the intersex dog love interest, who helpfully describes having “both parts” before having sex with Bobby Moynihan’s little dog Lucky. Was this meant to be progressive? It just comes off as strange and awkward, if not transphobic. Thank you for including intersex representation in your dog sex comedy, Genndy. It is much appreciated.

There’s only so much one can gain from a film that ends the way this one does. I’ve been asked not to share the specifics, but you’ll know what I mean if you do end up watching… though I’d advise against it. Thankfully, Fixed is a Netflix release, so it can hopefully sink into the streaming morass, never to be seen again. Now that Genndy finally has this out of his system, he can focus on his far more successful M-Rated work, Primal, with all the dinosaurs he can dream of gorily ripping apart.

Fixed
2025
Dir. Genndy Tartakovsky
86 min

Streaming on Netflix Wednesday, August 13th!