Fixed

I think that in the end of the day, a comedy has achieved its purpose if it makes you laugh. And this silly film made me so. It's not remarkable, but it's not forgettable either.

There are two or three moments where it really made me laugh out loud.

It amazes me that it was written and directed by Gendy Tartakovsky, because I'm used to a very different kind of work from him.

Give it a chance, but know that it's not for everyone. If you liked the Sausage Party, you'll enjoy this one too (Mexican double meaning).

Fixed (2025) is an adult animated romantic sex comedy movie on Netflix and it was written and directed by Genndy Tartakovsky, the legendary creator of Dexter's Laboratory (1996-2003) and Samurai Jack (2001-2017). Now on paper, this movie should be for me, but unfortunately this movie was awful.

Positives for Fixed (2025): Adam DeVine, Idris Elba, Kathryn Hahn, Fred Armisen, Beck Bennett and Bobby Moynihan all do a good job with their voice acting. The 2D animation looks amazing and I miss this style of animation. That's all I've got to say for the positives.

Negatives for Fixed (2025): The writing is shockingly terrible and this movie was written by Genndy Tartakovsky and I know he is a good writer, but you won't know that after watching this movie. The comedy is low hanging jokes about dog body parts. I wasn't a fan of the dogs swearing as it felt like that was the only thing Tartakovsky thought would work, but it doesn't and I don't mind watching dogs swear in an animated movie. Adam DeVine's character is painfully unlikable and annoying as he is trying to go after this dog, who has no personality, and it's the most cliched love story that you can imagine. There is a point where the dogs are surrounded by cast and instead of attacking them, they stand like idiots and get attacked by the cats. And finally, the happy ending for Adam Devine's character is so forced in and it wasn't even earned.

Overall, Fixed (2025) is one of the biggest disappointments of 2025 for me especially given Genndy Tartakovsky's track record with animation and that really sucks.

Bull (Adam DeVine) is a mutt bulldog who unlike the rest of his friends is not neutered which often leads to him getting in to shenanigans around his household where he tries to find sexual release on either peoples' legs or household objects. Bull carries a crush for his next door neighbor and friend, Honey (Kathryn Hahn), a Borzoi and show dog, but feels inadequate to approach her especially in the presence of his rival Sterling (Beck Bennett), another Borzoi show dog with an impressive lineage. When Bull learns his family plans to have him neutered, he runs away with his friends boxer Rocco (Idris Elba), dashund Fetch (Fred Armisen), and beagle Lucky (Bobby Mynihan) for a debauchery filled night of last hurrahs before he has to say goodbye to his testicles.

Fixed is the long in development directorial project from animator Genndy Tartakovsky, whose prolific work includes the likes of Samurai Jack, Dexter's Laboratory, and Hotel Transylvania to name but a few of his contributions to animation. The film stemmed from Tartakovsky's desire to do an animal roadtrip movie that would carry a similar dynamic to him and his real life group of friends which served as the basis for what would become fixed and presumably due to the success of Hotel Transylvania, Tartakovsky was able to start development in 2018 at Sony Pictures Animation. Despite being produced by Sony, the film was intended to be released by New Line Cinema for 2023 only to fall victim to Warner Bros. Cost saving initiatives of canceling completed releases. As the rights reverted back to Sony, they were free to shop for alternate distribution with Netflix taking up the offer having released a number of Sony Pictures Animation films on their platform. After a tortuously long road to release, Fixed.....isn't awful, but it's not exactly Tartakovsky's best work either.

Per Tartakovsky's reputation, the animation is very expressive and energized with a lot of energy and good timing. There's a good sense of personality and character in the designs even if I'm more mixed on for what they're used. This brings us to what Fixed actually is, which is essentially The Secret Life of Pets by way of The 40 Year Old Virgin. Animation is certainly no stranger to sexcapades like Fritz the Cat or even the more recent Sausage Party, but despite Fixed being filled with raunch and vulgarity a plenty, I wouldn't exactly qualify it as "adult" animation. While both Fritz the Cat and Sausage Party were filled with plenty of vulgar language and sexual situations, it was also clear they had something to say with Fritz the Cat spoofing the counterculture of the 60s and 70s (somewhat incorrectly according to R. Crumb) or Sausage Party skewering organized religion so there were actual ideas backing up what was presented. Going even broader to sex comedies, movies like 10 and to an extent the first American Pie took shots at middle aged insecurity and superficiality and the vapid understanding by adolescent high school males who had a very base and shallow understanding of sex. With Fixed, it often feels like the joke begins and ends with sex and aside from being slighty more graphic with dog behaviors as it pertains to pee, poo, and even blood a lot of the time it feels like you're watching something like Secret Life of Pets only with more sex jokes. The only moment that really feels fresh or particularly insightful is a brief sequence where Bobby Moynihan's Lucky falls in love with an intersex doberman named Frankie played by River Gallo, and it's honestly a pretty good moment character wise where his friends are supportive and non-judgmental and it makes you realize there was potential for this concept...only for it to be surrounded by material that aims low.

I didn't hate Fixed, but aside from appreciating some of the animation and vocal performances (particularly Elba, Hahn, and Gallo) I didn't feel Fixed really offered much with its mixture of an R-Rating and animation that wasn't done better elsewhere. It's maybe worth a one time viewing for Tartakovsky (depending on your tolerance for a parade of mainly pee, poo, and sex jokes) but not only has Tartakovsky done better, but so have raunchy animations and sex comedies.

Fixed is exactly what the trailers showed! The 2D animation looks beautiful. It makes you miss that animation style because it can look 10 times better modern day. This movie just shows us how bright it could look, if they still did 2D! It comes off as colorful! Representing the film! And all the voice actors do an incredible job. Even if a joke doesn't land. It's thanks to their voice acting that the scene is 10 times more enjoyable. They're definitely the main strong point of the movie and carry the movie the entire time. They do an incredible job! And this is a comedy, some jokes do land. Pacifically more at the end than the entire film. But, the main selling point on this is that R rated animated comedy. And yet again it doesn't work! The entire movie is trying to be so R Rated, that it doesn't really come across as funny. Because they're trying so hard to make you laugh and trying so hard to make this as R rated as possible! Making it come off as not that funny. Don't give me wrong, there's a few moments in there that I did love, that I wish the entire movie did instead of just this one segment. But the rest of the movie just feels forced. And kind of unrelated, but not really, I didn't really like sausage party because of the main story they had. I did not want to watch food attacking humans. And I was not really interested in this story either, it's just boring. You're watching a comedy and there trying to make you care for the actual plot. When in reality I did not care what was happening. I was there to laugh and even then they were trying too hard to make you laugh. It's a comedy that feels completely forced with everything it is doing. But does have nice animation and great voice acting!

I was very excited due to the director and names attached to this movie but even they couldn't save it. The animation is beautiful, the soundtrack is great, and the voice acting is okay. BUT, the pacing is weird, the editing is choppy, and voice acting could have been better. It felt cheap and offbeat as if it was supposed to be a TV show. It's okay, just don't expect a Sausage Party.