Just what the world needs, a film about dogs who like to fuck.
How on earth Netflix thought this would be a good investment is beyond me, yet somehow it’s here, and there’s nothing they can do to FIX it.
Written by Hailey Passmore
Is Fixed supposed to be relevant to the human male? Or is it just supposed to be that type of immature, disgusting satire that not everyone would understand or appreciate? Because if your balls start talking to you when you’re high, I definitely cannot relate (being that I am female).
So there’s a dog, named Bull (Adam DeVine), who is adopted as a young pup. Two years later, audiences find him humping Nana’s leg, Nana as in the grandmother of the human household he lives in. And here’s where we know things are going to go down an unexpected and horny road. The dog park is the place to be, and apparently, a daily event for the dogs in Fixed. Bull and his mates – Rocco (Idris Elba), Fetch (Fred Armisen), and Lucky (Bobby Moynihan) – all hang out together in the park, talking about girls, fucking, so on and so forth. Living in the same house his entire life, Bull has developed a lifelong crush on Honey (Kathryn Hahn) – a prize-winning show dog – who is set to win her next competition and mate with none other than local “bully” and award winner Sterling (Beck Bennett). Making things worse for Bull, of course, is when his owners decide it’s time for him to be neutered. With only 24 hours left before his manhood is taken from him, Bull chooses to run away from home and have one last adventure with his two best friends – Ol' Spice and Napoleon (his balls).
In less than 100 minutes, the viewer gets to witness a number of disturbing actions that one should never have to witness being done by a dog, even if the dog may be animated. What on earth could compel someone to decide to make a movie about being sexually aroused, but from the perspective of dogs? Supposedly, there is a purpose to pull a laugh from a joke, yet it does not hit or last if it does. Fixed is unaware of what it is. Is it a film about dogs being turned on? Or is it motivated by this lifelong love story between two canines? Either way, it becomes primitive and unsophisticated too quickly for anything substantial to develop.
Though one of the most surprising things about Fixed, above the need for it to have been made, and what adds an additional level of audacity is some of the cast members who chose (did they choose, or were they coerced) to be voice-actors for the dogs. Actors including Kathryn Hahn and Idris Elba do give stellar voices to their roles, as well as the rest of the cast. Yet it is lost within the absurdity and disgust of a dog’s balls. At times, the ludicrous plot revolves only around Bull, and while DeVine’s voice is somewhat unrecognizable, it adds a level of discomfort picturing the actor as their corresponding character. While Bull and Sterling tend to be the horniest characters and partake in the most 18+ rated actions, there is a greater level of sophistication when Hahn and Elba’s voices come into play. It feels perhaps like even though they became involved in Fixed, they only involved themselves in the more mature and sophisticated aspects, or events, of the film.
Impossible to fix, but hopefully possible to forget about, are the thoughts that remain when you finish watching Fixed. There is more to a dog than their want for sex, and though we as humans will never know, Fixed feels like a film made to look down upon them. A piss-take film drenched with sweat and balls, it is now streaming on Netflix, and we’ll never know why.
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