Date: Sunday August 17th, 2025

A very goal-orientated film

A poster depicting a large number of cartoon dogs, all squashed together, filling the frame

When Bull finds out that his owners are going to have him neutered, he and his pack of buddies decide to have one big night out before the chop.

What follows is cartoon dog version of frat/sex comedies from the eighties-noughties. Think Porky’s or American Pie. As a result, this film feels old fashioned. It tries its best to convince that it’s shocking and transgressive and that nothing is off limits. And yet it has very clear lines as to what it will and won’t depict. Balls, blood and bums: yup! Dicks, vaginas, vomit: absolutely not. After twenty minutes, once you’ve worked out where the lines are drawn, it all feels very safe.

It’s a shame that it can’t draw more inspiration from Ren & Stimpy. The animation is clearly in debt to it (one scene involving a skunk is a flat-out homage) so it would have been great if it had borrowed some of that duo’s anarchism.

One part that did feel surprisingly modern is the characterisation of Bull and his friends. They’re all quite kind and sweet to each other, they look out for each other and care about each other’s welfare, without asking for anything in return. It’s actually quite good natured, even when they visit a dog sex-club, and the result is that on the occasions when the comedy falls flat, you’re never irritated by the characters.

Thankfully, the comedy is pretty good most of the time. It’s at its best when it’s being smart rather than crude, which admittedly it doesn’t do quite often enough to make this an essential viewing. But often enough to have me chuckling most of the way through and, on the odd occasion when the crudity combines with smart observations on dog behaviour, a few belly laughs as well.

Four cartoon dogs all staring in the same direction with a bored look