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.

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…