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Yahoo
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Fixed' Review: From the Mind of Genndy Tartakovsky Comes a Comedy About a Horndog With a Castration Complex
Next time someone tells you animation is for kids, consider offering 'Fixed' as clear evidence to the contrary. Crude in both senses of the term — from its raunchy humor to the deliberately un-slick animation style — Genndy Tartakovsky's R-rated feature is to 'Lady and the Tramp' as 'Shaving Ryan's Privates' is to a respected Spielberg movie. Produced by Sony Pictures Animation and dropping on Netflix, where it should be right at home with the likes of 'BoJack Horseman' and 'Big Mouth,' the off-color comedy focuses on how a randy rescue mutt (Adam Devine as Bull) reacts to the news he's about to be neutered. Bull has balls (which are lovingly drawn beneath his asterisk-shaped keister), but not for long. That is, unless he can figure out some way to outwit his owners, who've done little to domesticate their beloved if misbehaved companion since the day they adopted him. 'Fixed' starts out irreverent — with a scene of Bull moaning in ecstasy as he mounts Nana's leg — and gets increasingly brazen as it goes along, which is no easy feat for gutter humor to sustain. More from Variety Indian Animation Returns to Annecy with Namaste MIFA! Showcase Cartoon Network Studios Icons McCracken, Tartakovsky, Sugar, Quintel, Ward and Muto on The Studio, State of the Industry and What Inspires Them 'Animal Farm' Review: Andy Serkis' Sloppy Animated Adaptation Trades Political Insights for Potty Humor Most shock comedies peter out after the first few gags, whereas 'Fixed' rivals 'Pink Flamingoes' in its ever-escalating capacity to offend — and doesn't stop at eating doggy doo either. By the end, Bull's willing to risk his asterisk to protect Honey (Kathryn Hahn), the purebred Afghan hound who lives next door. A fence separates the two neighbors, but there's obvious chemistry between them, even if Bull believes Honey's out of his league — and it's easy to see why, since Honey's a prize-winning show dog destined to be mated with the stuck-up Sterling (Beck Bennett). So the toon's cheeky plot goes something like this: Early on, Bull feels superior to all the neutered animals at the dog park because he's still got his gonads. He loves Honey, but doubts he'll be able to do anything about it before the vet gets to snipping. So Bull runs away from home, enjoying the canine equivalent of an Amish Rumspringa, only to realize he might not be cut out for freedom after all. Frankly, that premise is little more than the setup for the sort of jokes that feel 'wrong' — in all the right ways — to find in an animated feature. Nana mistakes Bull's excitement for her lipstick? Check. Lucky the Chihuahua (Bobby Moynihan) snacks on cat scraps? Check. There's even a hallucinatory pot-induced scene where Bull's dangling duo (whom he names Old Spice and Napoleon) declare their independence and set off on their own. Sacrificing good taste in pursuit of the higher goal — which could be described as joining 'Fritz the Cat' in animated infamy — Tartakovsky and co-writer Jon Vitti (a veteran of 'Saturday Night Live' and 'The Simpsons') make no apologies for the project's obscene sense of humor. Compare that to classic Tex Avery and Roger Rabbit shorts, which looked kid-friendly but were full of adult-skewing sexual innuendo, and you've got a movie that's not only comfortable being outrageous, but fairly original in how it goes about it (a vast improvement over 2023's live-action 'Strays'). In genre terms, 'Fixed' amounts to a pooch-centric variation on the 'American Pie'-style sex comedy. If you don't count Nana's leg (or the fruit bowls and flowerpots that Bull's been defiling for years), then this oversexed canine is still a virgin. By the time Bull and his friends find a cathouse where he can satisfy his urges, the movie is bone-deep into 'oh no, they didn't' territory. While Lucky gets lucky with a Doberman named Frankie (River Gallo), Bull and his boys, Rocco (Idris Elba) and Fetch (Fred Armisen), explore the kind of cartoon kinks not even Seth Rogen's 'Sausage Party' dared to depict. Unlikely as it may sound, inside this den of depravity, 'Fixed' finally gets emotional. It wouldn't do to spoil the surprises. Suffice to say, the film proves impressively grown-up about how far Bull must go to atone for his behavior. Turns out you can teach a horndog new tricks. Best of Variety The Best Albums of the Decade
The Guardian
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Ryan Reynolds has pitched an ‘R-rated' Star Wars. What would that look like?
Take all the essential ingredients of Star Wars – samurais in space, adventure among the wookiees, aliens with backward syntax, evil cyborgs with a penchant for murder by telekinesis – then imagine George Lucas hadn't given us all of that through a PG prism. This, it appears, is what Ryan Reynolds did when pitching to Disney. 'I said, 'Why don't we do an R-rated Star Wars property?'' Reynolds told The Box Office podcast. ''It doesn't have to be overt, A+ characters. There's a wide range of characters you could use.' And I don't mean R-rated to be vulgar. R-rated as a Trojan horse for emotion. I always wonder why studios don't want to just gamble on something like that.' Let's imagine the scene: a gaggle of studio execs are nervously cowering before the Hollywood A-lister's megawatt smirk as he reveals his idea for a take on George Lucas's space opera that doesn't hold back. This is Star Wars Tarantino-style. Perhaps Mando's got a drug problem, or Chewie really does rip people's arms off – and beat them to death with the wet ends. Somewhere over in Coruscant a Jedi slices a corrupt senator into symmetrical chunks without ever unsheathing his saber. Or maybe Reynolds just thinks the galaxy far, far away could use a little more Deadpool & Wolverine-style sweary irreverence. He's wrong. Push Star Wars too far into the realm of self-aware snark, or nudge it to start laughing at itself before the audience does, and you undercut the very thing that keeps fans tethered to its dusty, big-hearted mythos. We already have umpteen animated takedowns – Robot Chicken's fever-dream dismemberments, Family Guy's fart-laced remakes – and they're fine, in their way. But if Star Wars ever starts mimicking the shows that exist solely to mock it, then the circle will be complete. Having said that, it's impossible to dismiss completely the idea of a darker, more adult take, because all the essential ingredients are already in place. There are very few kids' movies in which a father cuts off his own child's limbs, or a giant slug-monster chains a bikini-clad hostage to its throne. There are not many movies fit for a Saturday matinee that feature swamp goblins gaslighting traumatised orphans. From despair-fuelled redemption arcs to slow-burn patricide, Star Wars already has everything it needs to drop the family-friendly facade and lean fully into its dark side. Andor, and to a lesser extent Rogue One, have already shown that it's possible to dispense with the fairytale veneer. Perhaps what Reynolds is saying is that if superhero movies can prosper by dismantling their own mythology in a blaze of sweary sarcasm, why shouldn't space-opera flicks find similar salvation in a galaxy where blood spurts with wild abandon like the Kurosawan epics that Lucas borrowed so much from in the first place. Perhaps it's a terrible idea and would ruin everything that feels sacred about Star Wars. But just for a moment imagine it: a galaxy not full of hope but hangovers. Where Force ghosts don't offer guidance, they just hover awkwardly, muttering regrets. Where Chewbacca's fur is matted with something unspeakable and the lightsabers don't hum, they scream.
CNA
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CNA
Ryan Reynolds reveals he had pitched an R-rated Star Wars movie to Disney
Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds recently revealed he suggested a more mature Star Wars feature to Disney executives and urged them to 'gamble' on a new take on the franchise. Speaking on The Box Office podcast, Reynolds, 48, explained: 'I pitched to Disney, I said, 'Why don't we do an R-rated Star Wars property? It doesn't have to be overt, A+ characters. There's a wide range of characters you could use.' And I don't mean R-rated to be vulgar. R-rated as a Trojan horse for emotion. I always wonder why studios don't want to just gamble on something like that.' Despite his enthusiasm for the project, Reynolds has no desire to star and would instead love to come on board as a writer or producer. He said: 'That would be a bad fit. I'm not saying I want to be in it. I'd want to produce and write or be a part of the behind-the-scenes. Those kinds of IP subsist really well on scarcity and surprise. We don't get scarcity really with Star Wars because of Disney+, but you can certainly still surprise people.'
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Ryan Reynolds Pitched An R-Rated Star Wars Movie (But Not For Himself), And His Rationale For Why Is So On-Point
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Ever since Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012, the Star Wars universe has significantly expanded onscreen beyond the core Skywalker Saga and the odd animated series. Not only is a sizable catalog of television shows set in a galaxy far, far away that can be viewed with a Disney+ subscription, Rogue One and Solo marked the first live-action standalone films, with many more upcoming Star Wars movies following suit. But one thing this franchise has yet to do is deliver an R-rated movie, and it turns out Ryan Reynolds has pitched such a cinematic idea, though not for himself. Reynolds, who's tied to Disney these days by playing Deadpool in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, shared his rationale on The Box Office Podcast for why an R-rated Star Wars movie would be a worthy addition to the franchise, and it's a pretty on-point stance. As he told host Scott Mendelson: I pitched to Disney, I said, 'Why don't we do an R-rated 'Star Wars' property? It doesn't have to be overt, A+ characters. There's a wide range of characters you could use.' And I don't mean R-rated to be vulgar. R-rated as a Trojan horse for emotion. I always wonder why studios don't want to just gamble on something like that. The man who's been playing Wade Wilson since the Deadpool film series was housed at 20th Century Fox (which has also since been absorbed into Disney) makes a good point about this. For one thing, he's had a front row seat to seeing a largely family-friendly franchise experience great success by wading into R-rated territory, as Deadpool & Wolverine made over $1.3 billion worldwide last year. Unlike the third Deadpool movie though, Reynolds made it clear that such a Star Wars movie wouldn't be rated R for vulgarity, but rather to deliver more mature storytelling. Disney Plus Annual Plan: $159.99 A Year - Save 16%If you can't get enough of watching Star Wars movies and TV shows, then it's worth paying for a year of Disney+ upfront and saving yourself over $30. Rather than paying the monthly rate of $15.99 a month on its Ad-Free standalone plan (working out as $191.88 a year), you can pay just $159.99 for 12 months. View Deal The closest Star Wars has come to this so far is Andor, which concluded its two-season run on the 2025 TV schedule earlier this month. But why stop there? As mentioned earlier, Ryan Reynolds wouldn't want to star in an R-rated Star Wars movie, but he would like to be involved in its creative process, saying: I'm not saying I want to be in it. That would be a bad fit. I'd want to produce and write or be a part of behind the scenes. Those kinds of IP subsist really well on scarcity and surprise. We don't get scarcity really with 'Star Wars' because of Disney+, but you can certainly still surprise people. I'm definitely not one of those people who thinks the Star Wars franchise should start catering chiefly to adults. This is still a mythology that's primarily focused on entertaining younger fans, with shows like The Mandalorian and Skeleton Crew definitely having a more all-ages feel. That said, I agree with Ryan Reynolds that Disney should take a risk with Star Wars and see how an R-rated movie would do. Disney+ had great success with Andor, which just barely avoided getting into truly R-rated material, so why not see what happens if we fully delve into that realm on the big screen? There's no reason we can't have the best of both worlds. I'll keep my fingers crossed that there comes a day when Disney and Lucasfilm feel comfortable enough doing this, with or without Ryan Reynolds' involvement. Until then, The Mandalorian & Grogu is set for release in theaters on May 22, 2026, and the Ryan Gosling-led Star Wars: Starfighter will follow on May 28, 2027.
Gizmodo
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
Ryan Reynolds Thinks ‘Star Wars' Is Ready to Be R-Rated
After Andor, people want Star Wars to take more creative or thematic swings. And according to Ryan Reynolds, a real big swing for the series would be a foray into R-rated material. In a recent episode of The Box Office podcast, the star of Marvel's Deadpool movies revealed he had pitched such a thing to Disney not too long ago, saying, 'Why don't we do an R-rated Star Wars property?' The way he describes it, this was more of a soft pitch for anything rather than a specific idea, but he suggested it wouldn't need 'A+ characters' or that it be 'vulgar. [I mean] R-rated as a Trojan horse for emotion. I always wonder why studios don't want to just gamble on something like that.' Most importantly, this isn't something he's suggesting himself to star in. He doesn't think he's a good fit for the franchise, but he'd be open to producing or writing such a project. To Reynolds' point, Star Wars has generally existed in a family-friendly capacity its whole life, to the point its first PG-13 movie was Revenge of the Sith back in 2005. Across the franchise, violence has been censored after a certain point on screen, and its approach to sex has been all the place implicitly, but only recently got into more explicit territory with Andor and The Acolyte. It's not a question of if the franchise should dip its toes into more adult territory, but whether Disney will let it, and how the wider world will react if it does. Whatever form any R-rated material takes, it will be talked about, for better and worse. [via The Hollywood Reporter]
