Get your adult animation — ahem — fix with the new irreverent film starring Adam Devine and Kathryn Hahn.
What happens when man’s best friend is subject to losing his manhood? In the new adult animation film Fixed, a slick and quick-witted mutt named Bull (voiced by The Out-Laws’ Adam Devine) discovers that his owners plan to neuter him after he’s caught mounting grandma one too many times. Upon this alarming revelation, Bull enlists his loyal neighborhood pals to accompany him on one last untamed all-night adventure, with the mission of proclaiming his love for the show dog next door, Honey (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’s Kathryn Hahn).
The raunchy-yet-heartwarming animated comedy comes from five-time Emmy Award–winning filmmaker Genndy Tartakovsky, the creator and director behind Samurai Jack, Dexter’s Laboratory, Primal, and Unicorn: Warriors Eternal. “I have been friends with the same group of four guys since high school. These guys make me laugh like nothing else, so I was thinking, ‘Can I translate this humor to animation?’ ” the director, co-writer, and producer of Fixed tells Tudum of the film’s origins.
The 2D animation style is eye-poppingly colorful and full of wild character reactions. “I love caricatured and exaggerated animation, so I knew the sensibility that I like to do and it was a matter of dialing [up] the amount of exaggeration. I think it started out as a rated-R Lady and the Tramp, then as we got into it, it naturally became more cartoon-y and specific to itself,” says Tartakovsky. “I would say it began to really take shape as we were fortunate to hire some of the best animators working in 2D from around the world.”
Also joining Devine and Hahn in the voice cast are Idris Elba as a self-assured boxer named Rocco, Bobby Moynihan as the goofy pal Lucky, and Fred Armisen as the wannabe influencer dachshund Fetch. The Sony Pictures Animation film also features the voices of Beck Bennett (Unfrosted), River Gallo (Ponyboi), and Michelle Buteau (Survival of the Thickest.)
Fixed comes to Netflix Aug. 13.
