A filthy animated comedy about a dog preparing to be neutered offers some ribald humor but not much else
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ogs dry humping humans, and whatever else they can get between their legs, is always good for a laugh – at least when we’re looking down on these adorable house pets, as they satisfy their base instincts, from above. Fixed, the filthy animated comedy unleashed on Netflix with a content warning that should apply to this review as much as the movie, both indulges in and tests our limits when it comes to that humour, largely by getting down (on all fours) and dirty with its hand-drawn canines.
Here’s a movie with talking pets that rarely rises above a bull terrier’s vantage point. Humans remain mostly out of frame. We see their legs – a regular scene of the crime – but never their faces. In the opening minutes, we’re right there with Bull (voiced by Pitch Perfect’s Adam DeVine), the movie’s pudgy un-neutered protagonist, as he works hard to bust a nut on his household’s nana.
The elderly woman is asleep on a sofa seat, her wrinkles sit still while he makes a mess of her stockings. The screen, and whatever objects are in its frame (like dog tags and dentures), rock to his rhythmic thrusting. His moans and Pornhub-rated gift for gab get louder with every back and forth, along with the squishing sound whenever he makes contact. It’s a raucous bit, made all the more hilarious and uncomfortable because of how long it lasts. And it raises the question: would this behaviour be as cute and tolerable in real life if we considered how much fun dogs were having, and if we gave them human character traits and facial expressions, which in those moments can come off as downright depraved?
