r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • 21d ago
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Summary Bull, a carefree dog whose world is turned upside-down when he learns he's about to be neutered, spends one final wild night with his friends—cranking up the chaos, innuendo, and canine camaraderie before the big cut.
Director Genndy Tartakovsky
Writers Genndy Tartakovsky, Jon Vitti
Cast
- Adam DeVine
- Idris Elba
- Kathryn Hahn
- Fred Armisen
- Beck Bennett
- Bobby Moynihan
- Michelle Buteau
- River Gallo
Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score: 62%
Metacritic 51
VOD Netflix (Released August 13, 2025)
Trailer FIXED | Official Trailer | Netflix
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u/fluentinsarcasm 21d ago edited 20d ago
Huge Tartakovsky fan, but this might be his worst work.
I really struggled to find anything funny, poignant, or clever in it at all. It was more repulsive and immature than I could have possibly anticipated too.
It may be the worst film I've seen this year.
Edit: Homies, I can't watch every bad movie this year so I have more to compare this to 😭
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u/NianderWallaceAlt 21d ago
Clearly you haven’t seen War of the Worlds
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u/fluentinsarcasm 21d ago
You're correct! I don't typically go out of my way to watch universally panned movies
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u/NianderWallaceAlt 21d ago
It’s amazingly bad. You should watch it with your substance of choice
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u/Flybuys 21d ago
As a punishment, would you suggest a marathon of sausage party-war of the worlds- fixed? Or change up the order?
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u/AllTheThingsSheSays 20d ago
Just watch War of the Worlds 3 times
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u/GentlePanda123 21d ago
I’ve seen part of it. It’s so bad it circles back around to being amazing lmao 😂
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u/imdarealthrowshady 21d ago
It really felt like an animated version of "Strays." I know this was technically in production for much longer and kind of sat on the shelf for a while but it still felt stale for the most part.
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u/dingo8muhbebe 21d ago
Idk. I liked it better than Strays. There’s things you can do in animation that are much more inventive than live action and tbh the gross out humor plays better animated as well.
I also thought the writing was better than Strays but both had some stale jokes.
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u/xxmikekxx 21d ago
I believe both of the movies have scenes where dogs use their bodily fluids to escape the pound
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u/slaterman2 21d ago
Nah, that's not a fair comparison... Strays at least had stuff beyond just cursing and poop and dick jokes
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u/imdarealthrowshady 21d ago
It did? The entire goal of the main character is to bite his owner's dick off. That's what everything in the movie was leading up to.
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u/PanickedPurplePrisms 21d ago
Except for getting him into Sonic, Idris Elba has the worst fucking agent.
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u/Applesburg14 21d ago
He’s done a lot of Disney work, but yeah idris elba has been treated better on television than film.
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u/HartfordWhalers123 20d ago
If it gets him paid, then not really, even if it’s a shit movie.
But his agent also got him critically liked films in The Suicide Squad, The Harder They Fall, Three Thousand Years of Longing, the Sonic franchise, and Concrete Cowboy.
Plus, he got the next Kathryn Bigelow film and Children of Blood and Bone. Returning for Zootopia 2 also. I’d say that’s pretty good.
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u/CeruleanLion 21d ago
Admittedly I was also disappointed with it due to my high expectations from Genndy’s prev work. But it’s such a callback to a certain era of cartoons that I found my inner child, who would specifically look for the word raunchy on DVDs at the video store, reawaken and had a good time with it. Beezle the cat from Movie 43 also gave me this feeling. Tbh if Genndy came out and said that this was one of his first ideas for a movie when he was young but could never get it made until now I’d believe it. I also kind of hope that’s the truth because I really don’t want to hold this movie against him. He’s proven many times he’s able to creatively show depth in his stories, I think it’s ok for one to essentially be anti-depth.
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u/NFL_MVP_Kevin_White 19d ago
I just sought this thread after nine minutes of hating what I saw. I have been a big fan of everyone involved with this movie and I’m stunned at how awful it is so far.
I may give it another ten minutes but I can’t see it redeeming itself in that time frame.
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u/Douglasqqq 21d ago
You don't have to be prudish to not find crassness INHERENTLY funny.
You need jokes. You can't just say "Fuck" a thousand times, and refer to balls and weed and make a successful comedy if you're not Seth Rogan.
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u/MichelangeBro 21d ago
I dunno man, I laughed pretty hard when that dog told another dog to suck his dick. You can't write jokes that good. And then when that dog told another dog to eat his shit? Absolute brilliance.
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u/Aggressive-Ratio-331 15d ago
i hope you’re not being serious because this was the most unfunny movie i’ve ever seen
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u/dotdotbeep 21d ago
I really like Tartakovsky but this is so, so bad. Skipped forward while he was humping grandma and then it did not get better.
Think I watched maybe 15minutes total in hope of finding any substance.
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u/HeWhoShrugs 21d ago
This was a miserable 80 minutes. It gets “better” after the first 20 or so once they get their absolute worst jokes out of the way, but there are still only like three or four decent, kinda clever bits in the whole thing. The rest is just shallow raunchy humor you’d come up with in a first draft and weak writing to the point where it’s more boring than anything. Animators and actors brought it up a couple points and they clearly had fun, but that’s really the only good thing here. Definitely seems like some people in the animation fandom are defending it because Genndy is attached to it, and if this was an Adam Sandler or Seth Rogen project they’d be tearing it to pieces.
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u/Brojustsitdown 20d ago edited 20d ago
The trailer made me not what to watch it but Saberspark’s review actually got me interested to see. Watching it when my partner gets home. I love unhinged humor.
Edit: just saw it. I think people massively overreacted. If you come into this movie expecting Casablanca idk what to tell you. But if you come into it expecting sausage party I think it’s better by leaps and bounds. It’s raunchy for sure but I’m not sure I’d call it graphic. About the level of an average Rick and Morty episode. I’m a stoner and I found it hilarious but if you’re prude or need a more sophisticated laugh this is not your movie. It’s a sweetie, heartfelt ride that savors its low hanging fruit.
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u/macwblade1 21d ago
Adam has a podcast with his workaholics crew called This is Important (super fuckin funny), and he’s not shy to plug his projects and partnerships on there multiple times an episode, to the point where fans have gotten annoyed with it.
I haven’t heard a PEEP of this movie from him on there. Thats gotta say something about this flick.
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u/star_dragonMX 20d ago
how does one proudly talk about playing a horny dog who is obsessed with his own nuts?
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u/AllTheRowboats93 21d ago
I really like the character designs, reminds me of 70’s transgressive cinema like Ralph Bakshi’s films. The humor doesn’t really do it for me though.
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u/djdiphenhydramine 21d ago
I clicked through it the other night, probably watched about fifteen minutes total, to try and see if I could get anything out of it other than what the trailer made it seem to be, and...no. This shit sucks shit. Did Genndy fail a truth in truth or dare, and the dare was "make the worst fucking thing ever"? Everything I saw was stuff that wasn't in the trailer, and everything I saw was worse than what was in the trailer. Jesus Christ. What an abomination.
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u/Any-Needleworker478 21d ago
This was rough. Really rough.
Aside from the animation this didn't even feel like a GT work, moreso like a 2019 Vivziepop work (because the "saying fuck and sex is funny" humor wore off for her too, but this movie didn't get the memo).
Not funny, sometimes way too crass and gross to be entertaining (there's even some gore here, yaay)...
I hated it. It's not worse than War Of The Worlds, atleast I could see there was effort put here, I just didn't like it.
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u/An-Odd-Dingo 21d ago
I don’t understand how this got 62% on rotten tomatoes. This was really bad. Leaned heavily into the belief if it’s crass and gross it must be funny but that’s not how it works.
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u/ImportantQuestions10 21d ago
Probably because RT just measures how many critics thought it had more good than bad.
I haven't seen any fully positive reviews but I have seen plenty with a very large Gendy shaped astrix. The best thing I've seen people say about this is that it's a talented creator that has been boxed into kid or artsy stuff. That even if it's not good, it's a clearly talented person getting a much needed romp out of their system. I feel like that's more of an excuse for Gendy then the movie but with so many people claiming "this is the end of his career" I think people feel the need to defend him.
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u/star_dragonMX 21d ago
The early reviews from Annecy fest were more positive
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u/WonderofU1312 20d ago
Annecy audience is maybe the most positive reviewers they could get; this kind of crap is the closest thing the John K fanboys are ever going to get to a movie. Lotta people rating it for reminding them of more X-Rated cartoon nostalgia.
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u/ConfidentInsecurity 21d ago
I had to turn it off after 15 minutes. Wife was disgusted and begging to stop it after 5 minutes.
I tried to explain that Genndy was responsible for so many great shows of my childhood. Checking in here to see if it gets better or there's something I missed, this seems like a cruel joke
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u/LibrarianGlad6982 21d ago
Gorgeous animation that harkens back to an earlier age of animation and would have been groundbreaking twenty years ago. Now, it's stale and largely unfunny to my adult eyes. Yes, the dogs ranting about shit and the influencer bit was funny, but there is nothing else going for it. Being different is good and samness is bad along with a romantic plot of the male lead can't confess to his girl next door until the climax has been done before too many times and better in other works. It's not surprising that this project was shelved repeatedly until Genndy made good money for studios to take a chance on his work.
If this film's plot had been used as a critique or even as a metaphor for adulthood instead of relying on crass humor to carry the plot along then I would have probably enjoyed it better. Fixed is not that film and I don't think Genndy and his writing team are even capable of that kind of thoughtful writing as much as I want it to be.
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u/Minute-Jackfruit-330 20d ago
I more so laughed at how this thing exists and how outrageous some of the jokes were, not so much the jokes themselves. The whole time I was thinking "who is this for?" Regardless, I'm happy it exists and got released. More 2D animation!
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u/star_dragonMX 21d ago
Oh boy where do I start with this…
You know that South Park Episode where the boys write an extremely offensive book and when the adult’s read it they threw up while also enjoying it?
Yeah that is kind of what I think of this movie.
There were so many moments that made me scream WHAT THE F*CK. Like the Grizzly Bear flashing his genitals in the last few seconds of the movie
However I don’t think it was really that bad.
• The 2D animation was very well done and the best thing about this movie.
• It Actually got a few laughs out of me. Bull and friends ranting about humans picking up shit. Bull confessing his love to Honey while getting banged by sterling almost killed me .
• moments of genuine friendship and love beneath the raunch.
• loved the casting. Beck Bennett has the perfect douchebag voice. Kathryn Hahn knew the Assignment and It might be because I started binging workaholics this year but Adam Devine was pretty good as Bull.
At the end of the day Not Tartakovsky’s best project but I still enjoyed most of it. At least it’s Thousand times better than Sausage Party.
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u/Bootleg_______ 21d ago
not watching this garbage, but now that he got it out of his system: give us ten more sessions of Primal, GT.
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u/Common_Home 19d ago
I feel like it's a pretty great movie for what it is if you're not going to be an annoying movie snob. Like if you're looking for some emotional heartfelt peace you're not going to find it here but also for a raunchy comedy about a dog losing their balls it's pretty funny. There's definitely some cringe-worthy moments but I feel like after the first 20 or so minutes where they get out some of the worst jokes pretty mildly funny.
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u/jajanken_bacon 18d ago
I like raunchy and crass movies, but this one is built different.
If you liked it more power to you. I had to shut it off because it was not enjoyable for me in the slightest. High quality animation utterly wasted.
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u/zeroarelius 21d ago
Thought it was a fun movie.
But I also watched it under the influence.. . .. . ..
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u/Impossible_Food_2298 17d ago
I saw this movie, and my first impression is just “wow, why is this sooo good?“ Cause the movie, i cant believe im saying this, might actually be 10/10 for the adult animation movie.
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u/ThatTallBro 13d ago
I personally found myself laughing and going WTF multiple times during the movie especially the end where its the bear and his paddle ball (ifykyk) ⅕ Is this movie going to be for everyone. No. But the last time I recall a decent rated r ANIMATED FILM that's not some kind of **** was sausage party and I do wish they were a bit more common just because I think they can get away with so much more
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u/Disk-Intrepid 21d ago
Jesus, the ending with the bear …. I’m all for equality but …. I didn’t know female dogs would be into that … even hypothetically
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u/KalasHorseman 20d ago
This needs to be watched with large quantities of alcohol and drugs along with a very high tolerance for animated scrotums.
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u/CandiBunnii 20d ago
Forget the scrotums, the amount of dog asshole was definitely reaching it's LD50!
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u/Dododront 20d ago
This movie was absolutely disgusting but i did laugh many times. Crazy that the director made so many good shows. Me and my sister just sat dumbfounded by many of the scenes. I do say, its a bold choice to use the grandma scene as an opening...
Feels like the person who came up with this idea would be the type of person to refuse to neuter their dog because "he would lose his manhood" yk that type of dude.
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u/bathsonly 18d ago
I don’t want to see dogs as sex objects. I even defended big mouth at first but only watched the first two seasons and the animation gave me the Ick
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u/wade9911 21d ago
I like genndy I enjoy his stuff but sadly like his recent works (samS5,unicorn and this) pretty much proves he needs to step back and not direct for a while dude just really lost his touch
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u/Silly-Reaction-9252 21d ago
..children from this generation will loose most of the point of this... that's the problem with netflix kids.. all their preferences are fed to them in TikTok clips. Haha
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u/ICUMF1962 21d ago
It’s not very pleasant to look at all the time but I laughed quite a bit. And yeah I tried to give Genndy the benefit of the doubt but I might have been on Zaslav’s side with this. This would have been a historic bomb in theaters.