Spay and Neuter your pets todayGenndy Tartakovsky is a man who truly does not need an introduction, especially in the field of animation. He’s a name in the industry that is linked to so many works that shaped the childhoods of most adults today, from iconic classics to cult hits, and has continued to dive further into his passion for the medium in his nearly forty years at it. So, when it was announced he was working on a raunchy adult comedy about a dog about to get neutered, people were definitely at least paying attention to how it would go. Tartakovsky has always found ways to fit mature and adult jokes into his works, even when they are explicitly made for children, and eventually started making shows for an older audience with things like the final season of Samurai Jack, Primal, and Unicorn: Warriors Eternal. With the success of those, he apparently found the confidence to fully cut loose and commit to an idea had conceived since 2009, about a two year old dog named Bull (Adam Devine) who gets taken on one last night of debauchery before he gets his nuts cut off, with a little help from his friends, Rocco (Idris Elba), Fetch (Fred Armisen), and Buddy (Bobby Moynihan), and his love interest Honey (Kathryn Hahn).One thing you most certainly notice about Fixed is that it is graphic, almost distractingly so at times. It is a movie about dogs having incredibly detailed sex with other dogs and, occasionally, other things as well. That’s simply the level of gross you have to understand going into this nearly ninety minute film. It brings to mind two other films I’ve seen: Wizards (1977) by Ralph Bakshi and Sausage Party (2016), both of which use a typically kid friendly aesthetic to get graphic, violent, and sexual with its material. And if you’ve seen either or both of those movies, it would be easy, and understandable, to say that the graphicness was the point, simply to make a cartoon that does detailed obscene acts with swears galore to show that the medium can be “adult”. The debate over whether animation can be mature and adult without those things has been going on for decades, but it seems part of Tartakovsky’s goal was in fact to get as down in the muck as possible in order to tell this story about this dog, Bull, trying to find confidence in himself when it seems like he’s about to lose a literal piece of himself.Fixed is, more than most things I’ve covered on this site, not for everyone. However, if you are an animation fan and especially of Tartakovsky’s work over the years, I think it is definitely worth at least a watch. It’s made with the craftsmanship you would expect from someone so honed and experienced as him, and then using that experience to show multiple pairs of dogs in sexual positions. I’m not gonna pretend that this detail alone is not gonna immediately turn people away, but it is nonetheless a well made animated film that very clearly revels in the utter disgustingness of its premise. Many emerging artists have taken animation a lot of places since the days of Dexter’s Laboratory, and having animals screwing is not exactly a new place in the current year. But I would say that no one else makes a feature length movie ABOUT animals screwing quite like Genndy Tartakovsky, and that’s probably as unique a praise as I can give to this movie. Honestly, give Fixed a watch, especially if you’re about to head into surgery, or just to get a weird gross movie for the bros. It won’t fix you, but it might do something.