Taking a look at the animation style of Netflix‘s Fixed, written and directed by Genndy Tartakovsky, you may find something familiar there. If you grew up on Cartoon Network, you’d be correct: Tartakovsky created the beloved series Dexter’s Laboratory, while also working on others such as Samurai Jack and The Powerpuff Girls. However, his newest offering has nothing in common with those series other than his familiar animation style.

Fixed is the kind of raunchy adult cartoon many of us have been wanting. This kind of 2D animation is too precious to lose, and if it invokes some sense of nostalgia, well, that makes it even better. As I thought while sitting in the theatre watching it, Well, now I’m not going to be able to watch my favorite cartoons again without thinking of this. And that isn’t a bad thing!

Adam Devine is perfectly cast as Bull, the beloved pet whose, uh…preoccupations have become a bit to much for his family to handle. Nothing is safe from his humping, not even Nana, whose leg gets the focus of his desires. When he leans that he’s going to get his testicles removed, he’s distraught. To Bull, who calls them his “hairy, dangling muses,” this is the worst thing that could ever happen to him.

Next door lives Honey (Kathryn Hahn), a show dog and Bull’s best friend slash longtime crush. They seem like a mismatched pair, and perhaps that’s the intent. Just like Bull’s journey culminates in a realization that he’s more than just certain assets, Bull and Honey’s relationship is more than just about appearance.

ONE NIGHT TO RULE THEM ALL

Grieving and determined to enjoy a final night still intact, Bull escapes his backyard and heads off for adventure in the big city with his best friends, Rocco (Idris Elba), Fetch (Fred Armisen), and Lucky (Bobby Moynihan). As expected, though, not everything goes according to plan. After a few gory canine adventures, the group finds themselves at a sex dungeon, complete with doggy strippers. Lucky, who seems to be doing a bit of soul-searching himself, spends most of his time with Frankie (River Gallo), an intersex Doberman. In lesser hands, this could have fallen into offensive comedy, but it doesn’t. Frankie shows Lucky a world he didn’t know existed.

Fixed started out on shaky feet, with some of the early jokes feeling offensive just for the sake of it, but it does find it heart. At times, in fact, it’s endearing, and it manages a balance of the heartfelt and raunchy. It brings to mind the golden age of the early 2000s comedies, like Knocked Up, further proof that the people yearn for stories with just as much heart as there is horniness.

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It’s a ridiculous film, but in all the best possible ways. There are moments that may make you cringe, but that is the beauty of comedies like this. Not many are willing to take a chance on stories like Fixed today, as Tartakovsky commented, but hopefully this one will blow the doors wide open.