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Fixed movie review: Adam DeVine, Idris Elba’s film is a relentlessly raunchy and distasteful animated comedy

Updated on: 15 August,2025 06:41 PM IST  |  Mumbai
Johnson Thomas | mailbag@mid-day.com

Fixed goes bold and raunchy in both the verbal and visual variety, in its effort to score laughs. However, it is largely inconsistent in generating laughs. It’s just relentlessly raunchy and vulgar

Fixed movie review: Adam DeVine, Idris Elba’s film is a relentlessly raunchy and distasteful animated comedy

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Film: Fixed (animation)
Cast(voice): Adam DeVine, Idris Elba, Kathryn Hahn, River Gallo, Michelle Buteau, Grey DeLisle, Fred Armisen, Beck Bennett
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
Rating: 2/5
Runtime: 86 min

An important voice of his generation, Genndy Tartakovsky’s animated comedy about a dog getting neutered fails to be either tasteful or entertaining.  It’s an adult-only animated offering playing on Netflix and is more than likely to get a whole host of viewers easily offended. This feature focuses on how a randy rescue mutt reacts to the news that he’s about to be neutered.


A terrier named Bull (Adam DeVine) humps away on an elderly citizen, Nana (Grey DeLisle) and  Nana mistakes Bull’s member for “lipstick.” What transpires thereafter is gross and distasteful. Bull is friends with a boxer named Rocco (Idris Elba), a dachshund named Fetch (Fred Armisen) and Lucky (Bobby Moynihan) and has a crush on a nearby Afghan hound named Honey (Kathryn Hahn). Borzoi (Beck Bennett), a neighbour, is another contender for Honey’s affections.



This is a hangout comedy in which Bull and his dog pack engage in really bad dog behaviour. When Bull discovers his owners have scheduled an appointment to neuter him, he tries to use up the 24 hours reprieve to embark on an adventure across the city with his three best dog friends.

For this film Tartakovsky collaborated with Renegade Animation and Lightstar Studios to develop an old-fashioned aesthetic for the animation craft. The expressive animation is in fact the only appreciable aspect of this film. The adventures of irascible characters calls for something that’s charming and captivating but that’s not likely here. Fixed is outrageous and obscene and delights in its ability to make viewers squirm.

Fixed goes bold and raunchy in both the verbal and visual variety, in its effort to score laughs. The outlandish hand-drawn animation is too risque to be described here. The narrative in fact, doesn’t hold back from depicting the physical attributes of its canine characters. The film gets increasingly brazen as it goes along, and the gutter humor sustains without scoring any amusement.

The voice performances are appropriate. The adult humor grates and is pretty offensive. Fixed is largely inconsistent in generating laughs and other than harboring shock value has nothing much to offer. This is basically an attempted grossed-out dog-sex comedy and it’s not funny at all. It’s just relentlessly raunchy and vulgar.

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