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Fixed (2025)

★ 6.2 · 148 ratings on TMDB

Obedience training is out the window.

Fixed poster★ 6.2

After learning he's getting neutered, a dog has 24 hours to squeeze in one last balls-to-the-wall adventure with the boys.

DirectorGenndy Tartakovsky
CastAaron LaPlante, Adam Devine, Beck Bennett, Bobby Moynihan, Fred Armisen, Idris Elba
GenresAnimation, Comedy
The emergence reading

In Fixed, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “canine city”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, identity, love, authority, breeding.

↷ animalsUSprejudiceidentityloveauthoritybreeding
Also inFilms about loveConsciousness hiding in animalsFilms about prejudiceFilms about identity
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

Ultraviolet (2006)E4/E11 · rare rung · authority, prejudiceWarcraft (2016)E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, prejudiceX-Men: The Mutant Watch (2000)E11/E12 · rare rung · identity, prejudice

Also hides consciousness here

Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.

The Little Mermaid (1989)consciousness in animals · undersea kingdomShrek Forever After (2010)consciousness in animals · ogre‑centric fairy‑tale kingdomShrek 2 (2004)consciousness in animals · fairy‑tale kingdomPorco Rosso (1992)consciousness in animals · pig-ace skyA Monster in Paris (2011)consciousness in animals · monster-ParisTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)consciousness in animals · mutant metropolis

Same subject, different mask

The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.

The Little Mermaid (2023)consciousness in monsters · authority, identitySplash (1984)consciousness in monsters · authority, identityYoung Frankenstein (1974)consciousness in the dead · identity, loveElemental (2023)consciousness carried elsewhere · identity, loveLilo & Stitch (2025)consciousness in aliens · authority, identitySecret of the Wings (2012)consciousness carried elsewhere · identity, love

Same people

Shared director or cast.

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